Travel Stories and News for 5/29/2009 : Kathika Travel Website

By traveldesk on May 29th, 2009

Below is a list of travel stories and news for 5/29/2009

$9 Fares May Be Coming To An Airport Near You | The Expeditioner Travel Magazine
Perhaps Lansing may not be your first pick for a getaway, but for $9 each (going to the first 9 to 19 seats sold on each flight), you can bet budget seekers will be rethinking their travel plans (plus, if you didn’t know it already, flying into Newark is just as good, if not better than flying to any of the inner-NYC airports). The upshot? Hopefully success begets expansion.

Malibu is The Ultimate Styacation For Celebs || Jaunted
Celebrities really are just like us. They go to their friend’s houses for Memorial Day parties too, the only difference is, they are greeted by a valet and a swarm of paparazzi, while we’re parking on the lawn and fighting off swarms of mosquitoes.

Tour de France Meets Burning Man – Intelligent Travel Blog
You could imagine this past weekend’s Kinetic Grand Championship as Tour de France meets Burning Man. But really this 3-day bicycle race in Humboldt County, California is an event all its own. In place of traditional bicycles, racers pedal “kinetic kontraptions”– part sculpture, part bike. Instead of smooth road or velodrome, racers navigate land, sand, mud and water in people-powered art machines built to look like everything from Octomom (an octopus with a baby gripped in each tentacle) to a fire-breathing metallic dragon constructed from discarded aluminum, to a tie-dyed Hippy-Potamus with wiggling ears and batting eyelashes.

10 things you probably didn’t know about Mt. Rushmore – Los Angeles Times
L.A. Times staff writer Christopher Reynolds tells you 10 things you probably didn’t know about South Dakota landmark.
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