Travel News and Stories for 11/27/2009 : Kathika Travel Website

By newsdesk on November 27th, 2009

Below is a list of travel news and stories for 11/27/2009

The Hajj and Women’s Dress
Making the Hajj pilgrimage while abiding by strict codes for women proves challenging.
http://blogs.abcnews.com

Getting What You Want on Vacation
How to successfully appease yourself and others while traveling.
http://abcnews.go.com

Southwest Airlines strikes out in airline food survey; Continental tops the list
Airline food. No, that’s not the punchline to a joke.
http://www.elliott.org

Thank you! United fixes “last vacation” for terminal cancer patient
Here’s a heart-warming story for the Thanksgiving holiday: James Thomson and a longtime friend, who is suffering from terminal cancer, ran into trouble with their flights from San Francisco to Bali. One leg of Thompson’s flight was canceled, which threatened to end his friend’s final vacation.
http://www.elliott.org

Icy Hot Spots
From hotels made of solid ice to Hollywood’s winter retreat, Forbes and Travel Channel give you ways to heat up the winter.
http://www.forbes.com

GIS: A New Generation of Maps
I grew up hating maps. On every road trip we took (and there were too many to count), even if my mom knew exactly where we were going she made me show her on the map. It was torture. But as I’ve gotten older and explored the world on my own, I am grateful for my compulsory map education. I don’t own a GPS and would rather pull out my awkward, folded maps than type in my destination online and get directions.
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com

I Heart My City: Ashley’s Albuquerque
The first place I take a visitor from out of town is Sandía Peak Tramway, the world’s longest aerial tramway. From Sandía Peak, you can take in views of the entire valley–and adjust to the high desert altitude.
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com

The Top Five Tips For Surviving Budget Bus Travel
TIt’s okay to admit that you travel by bus, or even better—by $1 bus specials. The era of cool bus travel has arrived, when it just no longer makes sense to fly between New York and Philadelphia when the bus costs under $20 and usually takes under 2 hours, and it has free WiFi and power outlets. Take that, regional jets!
http://www.jaunted.com

CA: All Calm On The Western Front, Or Is Chaos To Come At Cali Airports?
This Thanksgiving, story after story about poor economic conditions and travelers’ hermetically-sealed pocketbooks have flooded the newswires, and we’re wondering if this miserly attitude is affecting your Thanksgiving air travel on the West Coast and beyond.
http://www.jaunted.com

Snow Summit has Thanksgiving opening
Add Snow Summit to the SoCal resorts now open for skiing. The Big Bear resort opens on Thanksgiving (8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ), joining Bear Mountain, which opened Oct. 29. Meanwhile Mountain High in Wrightwood will also be open during the day on Thanksgiving and will offer night hours (till 10 p.m.) Friday and [...]
http://travel.latimes.com

America’s smartest people
Sure, smart people live all over the United States, but maybe some cities really do have more collective brainpower than others. Read on to see the results.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com

10 Black Friday Shopping Tips By Urban Ninjas
Black Friday . . . are you preparing to battle the holiday shopping crowds? With the economy in a slouch, you had better be ready to fight for the best sales. You have to be fast and first into the store. You need amazing skills to navigate parked cars, blocked aisles, any obstacle that comes between you and that steal of a deal. Can you run faster, climb higher? Perhaps you should brush up on your ninjas skills before you go into the battle of the urban ninjas?
http://weburbanist.com