Travel Stories and News for 4/22/2009 : Kathika Travel Website

Below is a list of travel stories and news for 4/22/2009

Popular tourist attraction off the mark – via kqre.com
Tourists who want to put a hand or foot in each of the four states at the four corners area are apparently off the mark—by about 2.5 miles.The four corners marker showing the intersection of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah is a few miles west of where it should be, according to readings by the National Geodetic Survey.

The Swirls and Waves of Antelope Canyon – via environmentalgraffiti.com
Gaze for too long at these rock formations, and you begin to drift off and forget whether you’re looking at a geological phenomenon or a vast, abstract oil painting. The swirls seem to envelop you, and in Antelope
Canyon they actually do. Let’s take a ramble down this most gorgeous of gorges and lose ourselves in the wonderful play of light and patterns that captivate its many visitors each year. Here lies one of the planet’s greatest natural art galleries.

Follow a historic train trip on Twitter – via USAToday
Steam Locomotive No. 844, which was Union Pacific Railroad’s last steam locomotive, is on a 32-day four-state tour from Roseville, Calif., to Ogden, Utah. Dispatches about the journey are being posted to Twitter.

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