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By Ken Hegan for MSN Americans are pretty pleased with themselves this week (well, even more than usual). A new report says visits to the USA have hit a record high. The US Department of Commerce’s Office of Travel and Tourism Industries has released their latest report International Visitation to the United States: A Statistical…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Are you a sun fearing/loving albino like me? I’m pretty much always cold so I love the hot summer months. But thanks to my Scirish heritage (Scotch-Irish), my love for sunshine means an abusive relationship for my pale skin. Still, despite the freckle-frying heat on BC’s Sunshine Coast this week,…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Craving a musical fix when you’re in a distant city? You’ll love this then. Three public pianos have been plunked down in various downtown Vancouver locations. Here’s a dad teaching his kid to play one such piano. Meanwhile a local roustabout stares enviously at their nifty matching leather jackets: You’ll…
By Ken Hegan for MSN After years of searching, I’ve finally found the World’s Greatest Travel Wallet. It’s called the Bellroy Travel Wallet and it’s handcrafted at a secret Australian location by a tight-knit tribe of genius artisans. My guess: they’re made by a cabal of monks who care not about worldly possessions, as their…
By Ken Hegan for MSN If you were a superhero who could fly around without a jetpack or plane, where would you go? That’s the premise behind FlyOver Canada, an epic new tourist attraction debuting this holiday weekend in Vancouver. Starting at 10 a.m. this Saturday, tourists can march off a cruise ship at Canada…
By Ken Hegan for MSN So today I was going to tell you about the insane Karosta prison hotel in Liepaja, Latvia. Back in the day, Karosta was a brutal naval jail run by the totalitarian Soviets, KGB, and wartime Nazis. Hundreds of inmates were executed here. But now Karosta’s been turned into a hotel…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Want to relax in the sand on Billionaire’s Beach in Malibu? Good luck with that. Carbon Beach is a beautiful 2.4-km beach with the deepest, driest, and possibly prettiest sand in L.A. For decades, it’s been a secluded enclave that’s extremely difficult for outsiders to find and enjoy. Malibu’s wealthy…
By Ken Hegan for MSN In the coming apocalypse, when the oceans rise up to swallow the land, this South Korean hotel is where I want to be. Yep, it’s a cruise ship hotel perched up on a cliff. This ship/hotel is reminiscent of the RMS Queen Mary hotel in Long Beach, California. But instead…
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