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Vegas offers more than gambling

Shopping, shows, museums, restaurants and a quirky street scene are enough to keep visitors busy at this gaming mecca, even if they don’t gamble much - or gamble at all.
No loss of glamour when traveling green in Scotland

ELIE, Scotland - The weather in this lovely seaside village on Scotland's east coast, not far from the golfing mecca of St. Andrews, was about as inhospitable as it could be for early November.
App can help you get around

Here's an app that helps you find a post-flight ride on the ground by taxi, shuttle, train, rental car or even helicopter.
Ancient canals in China take traveler back in time

One glimpse of the waterfront houses in the canal town of Xitang, and every Chinese scroll painting I'd ever seen as a child suddenly made sense. It was all there: the arching stone bridges, the tiled rooftops, the red lanterns strung from the eaves, even the boatman paddling down the river.
Apps for traveling dog owners

Whether you take your dog on the road or leave it behind when you travel, some iPhone apps will make your life easier.
Going freaky and funky cool in the Venice of California

LOS ANGELES - "Hey, look at that funny guy!"
Bermuda: The lonely, lovely child of the Atlantic

HAMILTON PARISH, Bermuda - This has to be one of the most pleasant hazards to navigation in the world. Spanish seamen warned one another of Bermuda's reef-filled waters after Spanish captain Juan de Bermudez discovered the island group in about 1505.
The best little beaches in Texas (and Louisiana)

From western Louisiana down to the Texas coastal bend, beaches are wider and browner than Florida's. The gulf can look brownish-green due to rivers emptying into it, but it gets bluer the farther south you go. Here's my assessment of some popular beach towns:
On the trail of elusive Texas whooping cranes

AUSTWELL, Texas - The Aransas National Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of the whooping crane, a bird on the verge of extinction. I drove 20 miles off the main road to get there. I climbed a tall observation tower. In the distance, at least four football fields away, were, or at least seemed to be, two white dots in the waving reeds.
The 2011 'wave season' brings new ships, new trends

Fourteen new cruise ships enter the business this year. Cruise lines are thinking twice about port calls in Mazatlan, Mexico. And a new port is due to open in Jamaica soon.