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National Outdoor and Adventure
Museum for the outdoors family
cook county forest preserves
August 26, 2011
Hal Tyrell Trailside Museum was established in 1931 and served as the first public nature education facility of the Forest Preserve District of...
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Grueling Costa Rica bike race follows route of conquistadores
Travel
November 17, 2010
Today begins Costa Rica’s 17th annual Ruta de los Conquistadores, an arduous four-day mountain bike race that runs from the Pacific coast...
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Parklands in Costa Rica help reduce poverty
Travel
June 9, 2010
A recently released report from Georgia State University gives us yet another reason to protect the rainforest: parklands, it turns out, can also...
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La Ruta del Agua -- Nicaragua's southern waterways
Travel
December 9, 2009
Navigating the Rio San Juan in Southern Nicaragua today, you won’t see much traffic. There are the local fisherman, a few sportfishermen, and...
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Travel 101: How to wait for the slow boat to Nicaragua
Travel
December 6, 2009
So much of travel, especially travel in a developing coiuntry, is about waiting. It can be frustrating, but at least it gives you a chance to look...
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Costa Rica treehouse hotel: up among the monkeys and birds
Travel
November 23, 2009
“There’s still enough light to walk down to the waterfall, says Mark, who, with his wife Lucy, manages the Treehouses Hotel in Costa...
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When's the best time to visit Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks?
Travel
October 8, 2009
According to Mark Di Vincenzo, the answer is May.Di Vincenzo is author of the new book, Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon: A Guide to the Best...
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Travel companies rush to offer national parks trips
Travel
October 8, 2009
Travel companies are hurrying to take advantage of the renewed interest in national parks generated by Ken Burn’s PBS series, The National...
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Elderhostel becomes Exploritas, but won't, they promise, be overrun by 20-somethings
Travel
October 6, 2009
Elderhostel, the venerable and wildly popular educational travel organization for older adults, has changed its name to Exploritas. They’ve...
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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Friday lineup draws huge crowds
Travel
October 2, 2009
San Francisco's preeminent free music festival started today with a bang and a twang and hordes of laid-back revelers. Usually Friday, with its...
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