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Highly Effective Work Habits:  Take Your Vacations

Most jobs will either give you about 2 weeks of vacation when you first start or you earn hours as you go.  And usually those benefits will increase the longer you stay with a company.  If you’ve got vacation time, take it!  Working hard is all well and [...]

On December 7th 2009, Virgin Galactic unveiled SpaceShipTwo, the first commercial passenger spacecraft.  This is the successor to the SpaceShipOne prototype that made history last year by becoming the first privately manned craft to reach space.  There are already about 300 people who have paid the $200,000 ticket to ride on this spacecraft when it [...]

This is a new luxury hotel by the Trump organization and the first such one that has been built in Waikiki in decades.  It is 38 stories tall and has about 462 rooms, some of which are privately owned.  The amenities sound fantastic!  Here are some of them:

wine cellar on site
spa on site
luxury torches in [...]

The Black Forest is a wooded mountain range in southwestern Germany.  It is definitely one of the greatest forests of Germany and borders France, Switzerland, and the Neckar River.  The place sounds evil, but it actually got its name from the large concentration of pine trees which makes the forest look black from a distance.
Tourism [...]

If you want to experience sea life in an unusual way, book an excursion with Sea Quest Expeditions.  They offer sea kayaking tours in the following standard locations:

Washington’s San Juan Islands
Mexico’s Baja Peninsula
Alaska’s Inside Passage

If you wish to have a more exotic custom adventure, you can also go to Belize, Chile, Fiji, Palau, Thailand, Vietnam, [...]

Looking for somewhere different and memorable to celebrate New Year’s this year!  Then you have got to head over to Times Square in New York.  It is the most famous and biggest New Year’s Eve party in the nation.  The celebration is most notable for the large ball atop One Times Square that descends the [...]

Yes, I’m writing about another cruise vacation.  Can you tell that I like cruises? 
The Oasis of the Seas is the largest passenger vessel in the world and is owned by Royal Caribbean.  It set sail from its shipyard in Finland on October 30th and is due to arrive in its home port of [...]

Mardi Gras in New Orleans is one of the most famous carnival celebrations in the world.  The celebration is well known for its parades, masquerade balls, and parties all over the city.  The festivities usually begin two weeks before and during Fat Tuesday.  The most recognized feature of Mardi Gras is the large floats during [...]

Dale Jarrett is a former NASCAR Champion and co-owns a racing school with Brett Favre called the “Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure“.  The school allows regular folks to drive a race car for a day!  Ever wanted to scream down a real racetrack behind the wheel of a genuine stock car?  Now is your chance.  The [...]

Disney will soon be coming out with its new cruise ship – its third in the lineup.  Called the “Disney Dream“, it is currently scheduled to launch on January 26, 2011 and will be taking a cruise to the Bahamas.  It will be larger than the other 2 ships in the fleet and can accommodate [...]