 | My good friends Ariela and Elliot are longtime New Yorkers who fled the Big Apple for Austin two years ago, got priced out and ended up in San Antonio. It’s a common story these days. San Antonio, at 300, is all grown up |  | I recently had tickets to fly from Tucson, Ariz., to the Galapagos, via Los Angeles and Quito, Ecuador. The Tucson-LA flights were one-way tickets, and the LA-Quito segment was connected in our reservations. However, all of the tickets had been booked through the Chase website, except the Galapagos... |  | Authorities in Thailand have ordered the temporary closing of the beach made famous by the Leonardo DiCaprio movie "The Beach" to halt environmental damage caused by too many tourists. |  | Somewhere in the deep green heart of central Florida, an eagle’s cry pierces the morning quiet. Soaring through the sunrise, she surveys her domain before landing in a cypress tree high above the St. Johns River. As she fortifies her nest, an alligator bellows from the riverbank. Together, the... Houseboating on the St. Johns |
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