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Trade yoga mats for skis and you’ve got… snowga

Trade yoga mats for skis and you’ve got… snowga

Overlook the yoga mats, bare ft and rooms heated to 95 levels.Suppose snowshoes or skis, breathable layers and "studios” covered in white powder.It is snowga — the follow of mixing the breathing ways and postures of yoga with iciness sports activities.

 
 

Success! SpaceShipTwo hits new heights during rocket test

Success! SpaceShipTwo hits new heights during rocket test

MOJAVE, Calif. — With Virgin Galactic’s chief pilot behind the controls for the first time, the company’s SpaceShipTwo aircraft reached a brand new high on Friday in its first supersonic rocket-powered test of 2014.

 
 

Arctic travel conditions tie up US planes, trains  

Arctic travel conditions tie up US planes, trains  

Arctic temperatures are urgent on travelers in america, whether or not they’re taking a look to maneuver by means of aircraft, teach or foot. "It looks like as of late can be an growth over the day gone by," Daniel Baker, the CEO of FlightAware, stated in an electronic mail Tuesday […]

 
 

Travelers spend night on snowbound Amtrak trains

Travelers spend night on snowbound Amtrak trains

Many of the 500 Amtrak passengers who spent the evening onboard three trains stranded in snow in northern Illinois are at last heading to Chicago, rail line officers said Tuesday morning.

 
 

Delta’s oldest DC-9 flies final flight

Delta’s oldest DC-9 flies final flight

MINNEAPOLIS — Delta Air Strains is retiring its last DC-9s, the oldest passenger plane within the fleet of the big U.S. airlines.Delta operated the final passenger flight from Minneapolis to Atlanta Monday evening. McDonnell Douglas delivered the primary DC-9s in 1965, and eventually built 976 of them.

 
 

Cayman police believe cruise ship passenger fell

Cayman police believe cruise ship passenger fell

Police within the Cayman Islands said Wednesday that they suspect a Canadian cruise ship passenger who recently vanished can have fallen off the boat as search crews scoured waters around the British Caribbean territory.

 
 

‘Like a Napa Valley wine tour’: Pot tourism ready to light up in Colorado

‘Like a Napa Valley wine tour’: Pot tourism ready to light up in Colorado

As Colorado becomes the first state in the nation to permit leisure marijuana sales starting Jan. 1, a budding pool of "potrepreneurs" have high hopes for an inflow of out-of-city pot tourists.

 
 

Countdown to 2014:  Best places to ring in the new year

Countdown to 2014:  Best places to ring in the new year

Because the clock ticks all the way down to midnight, a crowd gathers in Occasions Sq., ready for a glittering ball to descend and launch the New Year. But this isn’t New York, it’s Hong Kong, the place a ball drop has also transform an annual custom.

 
 

Python strangles security guard at luxury hotel in Bali, Indonesia

Python strangles security guard at luxury hotel in Bali, Indonesia
 
 

Best ice skating rinks in the US

Best ice skating rinks in the US

Whether or not the weather outdoor is frightful or unseasonably warm, it is a nice time of year to head ice skating.These ice rinks embrace web sites that welcome both amateur and pro skaters. Many hire skates, host unique events and offer lessons.

 
 

LAX shooting suspect pleads not guilty

LAX shooting suspect pleads not guilty
 
 

America’s most romantic winter destinations

America’s most romantic winter destinations

“When we project out to the broad, open plains and pressure up the mountains, it feels like we’re the only ones there,” says Dan Warner, reflecting on the attraction of Jackson, Wyo. The L.A.

 
 

‘Holiday travel nightmare’: Winter storm, tornadoes could spell Christmas misery

‘Holiday travel nightmare’: Winter storm, tornadoes could spell Christmas misery
 
 

Pinterest’s top pins show contrast between travelers’ fantasies and realities

Pinterest’s top pins show contrast between travelers’ fantasies and realities

A rock in Scotland, a lagoon in Iceland, and a container of bluebonnets in Texas are among the most incessantly shared trip photos on Pinterest in 2013.As part of a 12 months-finish evaluate, Pinterest launched a list of the 20 prime trending pins according to repins from Pinterest users around the […]

 
 

Relive the Victorian era at the Great Dickens Christmas Fair

Relive the Victorian era at the Great Dickens Christmas Fair

Ah, London at Christmas time: The scent of contemporary-baked scones, the pleased voices of carolers and the spirit of Charles Dickens himself striking in the air as you stroll the cobbled streets…Wait, what’s that? You say the airlines’ Scrooge-like ways have you ever feeling about as flush as Bob Cratchit?