courtesy of Silas Dich

I am not sure how great this news is, due to the lastest and newest virus that has hit the planet, but I thought I would clue you in all the same -

If you are looking for great travel deals - Mexico is the place.

Besides the economy that has been bad all over, obviously effecting luxury trades like the tourist trade, and Mexico was no exception.

If that wasn’t enough, another hard blow to hit the Mexican tourist trade was the swine flu, and the Mexicans are prepared to go quite far get back on track again, even if it means incredibly attractive travel deals.

There is a government site with a lot of information on great deals, but apparently, there are even better deals with private tour operators.

For more details you can also check out Travel Babel.

Just a quick post sending you over to Viator to read about Astoria, Oregon, or better yet, Sending you to by last minute tickets to spend the weekend there :-D

All travelers spend way to much time in airports, some of which are absolutely terrible (the one that stands out most in my mind is the airport in Milan, Italy. Nightmare is a compliment for every second spent there.

Smoke filled over packed filthy with rude staff… It make me really appreciate well run airports.

courtesy of revdode

Even now, after traveling for so many years, the thought of an airport always slightly excites me, and the disappointment of having the romance sucked  out of it because it is badly run and over priced is just to bad.

Cool travel guide has a whole post discussing airports What Makes an Airport Cool

Did you know that there was such a thing as a Moonbow? Same as rainbow but at night!!!!

I had no idea that this existed…. there you go. You can learn something new everyday.

From Merced Sun Star

On a clear night in Yosemite National Park, you can see a rainbow.

At night. Near both the upper and the lower falls. With the dark blue velvety, star-studded sky above, and lots of watery mist below …

Yet only for a few hours of a very few nights during the full moon in springtime and sometimes early summer, will a bow appear in the moonlight.

Often referred to as a lunar rainbow or white rainbow, in the early 1900s John Muir wrote about the “elusive, ethereal moonbow” in his book, “The Yosemite”:

“This grand arc of color, glowing in mild, shapely beauty in so weird and huge a chamber of night shadows, and amid the rush and roar and tumultuous dashing of this thunder-voiced fall, is one of the most impressive and most cheering of all the blessed mountain evangels.”

apparently Brent Gilstrap has been photographing them for the passed 3 years, and says that they look different to the naked eye than they do on film, since most peoples eyes aren’t sensitive enough to pick up the color that is visable with a camera, the moon bow looks like a rainbow would look like in a black and white photo.

Still worth the trip, I would say :-)

Hat tip to Yosemite Blog

Photo credit Brent Gilstrap

Moonbow and Reflection, May 15 2006. Unusually high runoff creates a spectacular scene: A moonbow in Upper Yosemite Falls is reflected in flooded Cook’s Meadow.

Photo courtesy of Joshua Berman

I am not a snake person at all (nor a spider person or snail person ect) and I don’t think I would want to spend any time at all with Gilli the snake man from Lucky Strike Beliz. He is interesting to read about though, which makes me very happy that Joshua Berman feels differently than I do, and did go to visit him… to read more about it click here