Word: round-the-world
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...rides cost anywhere from $150 to $225 an hour per person). These seasoned travelers have already been to the world's great cities, and may be looking to try something different at this point in their lives, Jones notes. And the inspiration of Steve Fossett's recent round-the-world balloon flight at age 58 hasn't hurt. "Ballooning is a sport that takes time, patience and some money, which works well when the kids are grown up and out of the house," says Jones. "I'm 37, and I feel like a kid when I'm around most balloonists...
...this same cosmopolitan ambition that lands the dinner menu in its utopian troubles. The eight entrées alone strive to represent Middle Eastern, Asian, Southern and Mediterranean influences. Elsewhere, the round-the-world tour continues with Caribbean appetizers, French cheeses and Indian desserts. In the Blue Room’s brave new world, Asian vegetables with soba noodles, ginger, soy and sesame ($17) can turn up next to braised lamb shank with dates and almonds, couscous and harissa ($22). This is not mere “American eclectic” or “world fusion...
...Eight vessels in the Clipper 2002 round-the-world yacht race set sail from Liverpool, England (27) to return 56,000 km later in Sept...
...hour after sunset on that Saturday, Lees and 28-year-old Peter Falconio, six months into the Australian leg of their round-the-world holiday, were cruising in their orange Volkswagen campervan?Falconio at the wheel?when a white four-wheel-drive pickup drew alongside. The driver gestured that he could see sparks coming from the exhaust of the campervan and, after some discussion about whether to heed him, the couple pulled over. Falconio inspected the van with the stranger, then came to the front and asked Lees to rev the engine. When he walked behind the van again, Lees...
...minimum of hassle," in the words of Richard Hefler, senior vice president for sales and marketing at INTRAV, a St. Louis, Mo., travel packager. The company will have a Concorde supersonic jetliner scoop up 96 passengers in New York City and Las Vegas on Dec. 24 for a round-the-world trip. Rather than stuff passengers into a tour bus to take them to the Taj Mahal, INTRAV has chartered a jet that will get them to the palace in the early morning and back to a four-star hotel in Delhi in time for lunch. The 18-day, hassle...