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  1. In this March 8, 2006 file photo, a food vendor moves through heavy tourist traffic on Khao San Road in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, File)
    Budget Bangkok: 15-cent trains, $1 meals AP - Mon Jul 21, 12:39 PM ET Avg. Rating: 5.0

    BANGKOK, Thailand - From 15-cent train rides to excellent, one-dollar meals, Thailand's tropical capital is teeming with budget options for the penny-pinching traveler. Where else in the world can you get a free vasectomy?

  2. Ship Heavy Baggage Instead of Checking It Aviation.com - Thu Jul 17, 10:15 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.8

    After Northwest's announcement this week that it will be jumping on the bandwagon to charge people for their first checked bags, it seems as if increased luggage fees are here to stay. So finally, after all these years of reading about shipping your luggage in advance (and shrugging it off as too involved and possibly too expensive), you may be ready to play.

  3. Amtrak's Downeaster ridership up 28 percent AP - Mon Jul 21, 10:50 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.7

    PORTLAND, Maine - Rail officials say high gas prices has played a role in a 28 percent gain in ridership for Amtrak's Downeaster during the last fiscal year.

  4. High Crimes: Treating Aviation Pros as Felons Aviation.com - Fri Jul 11, 12:30 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    Pilot associations, air traffic controller unions and other industry groups are concerned about what they perceive to be an increasing trend toward criminalizing the actions of aviation professionals following major accidents.

  5. Designers Ryan Brouwer and Randy Pease pose in front of the building they designed for Integrated Architecture in Michigan at Grand Haven State Park on Monday, June 23, 2008. The new 'green' environmentally friendly toilet-shower building is the first of its kind in the state park system. (AP Photo/Adam Bird)
    Campground restrooms becoming ecologically correct AP - Thu Jul 24, 3:57 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    GRAND HAVEN, Mich. - When nature calls, campers at Michigan's Grand Haven State Park can now go "green" at a new, environmentally friendly toilet-shower building that is the first of its kind in the state park system.

  6. In this May 26, 2001 file photo, Vice President Dick Cheney, accompanied by then-Interior Secretary Gale Norton, participates in a ceremony at the JY Ranch in Moose, Wy. The National Park Service wanted to close a section of Yellowstone Park in the wintertime because of the risk of avalanche. No way, protested Cody, Wyo., businesses that wanted to promote more winter tourism. The local spat didn't stay local for long. It ended up in Washington, where the Bush White House intervened late last year to side with the businesses, according to officials familiar with the fight. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
    White House reverses experts on Yellowstone policy AP - Thu Jul 24, 3:11 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    WASHINGTON - The National Park Service wanted to close a section of Yellowstone Park in the wintertime because of the risk of avalanche. No way, protested businesses in Cody, Wyo., that wanted to promote more tourism.

  7. In this July 28, 2007 file photo, Crossroads Guitar Festival master of ceremonies actor Bill Murray appears onstage as a 70's rocker in Chicago. Former 'Saturday Night Live' cast member Murray has agreed to parachute from a plane as part of a special appearance at the Chicago Air and Water Show next month. A spokeswoman for the Mayor's Office of Special Events says the 57-year-old actor is jumping on behalf of USO of Illinois. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, file)
    Bill Murray to jump from plane in Chicago AP - Mon Jul 21, 12:14 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    CHICAGO - City officials say actor Bill Murray has agreed to parachute from a plane as part of a special appearance at the Chicago Air and Water Show next month.

  8. Grizzly bear attacks woman in Alaska AP - Thu Jul 24, 6:27 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.1

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A grizzly bear attacked a woman, wrapping its jaws around her head before a guest scared it away.

  9. Tourists look out over the empty Lake Delton Tuesday, July 15, 2008, in Lake Delton, Wis. In a bizarre disaster-in-reverse, torrential rains in June blew a giant hole in Lake Delton's shoreline. The lake drained away, taking vacation homes with it and leaving behind a muddy moonscape of stumps and puddles. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
    Lake's demise took business down the drain with it AP - Mon Jul 21, 8:10 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.1

    LAKE DELTON, Wis. - Not a cloud in the sky and the temperature is flirting with 90 degrees. Usually, it doesn't get any better than this for the Tommy Bartlett water ski show.

  10. Maria von Trapp, her brother Johannes and their sister-in-law Erika von Trapp, from left, pose in front of the Villa Trapp on Friday, July 25, 2008 in Salzburg, Austria. Maria is in the house for the first time since her family fled the Nazi regime to the United States in late 1938. The original von Trapp family home was reopened as a hotel on Friday to give guests the chance to lay their head to rest where the von Trapp family once lived, get married in the house's chapel or have a Sound of Music dinner in the family dining room. (AP Photo/ Kerstin Joensson)
    'Sound of Music' daughter returns to Austria AP - Fri Jul 25, 6:07 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.0

    VIENNA, Austria - Seventy years after fleeing the Nazis, a woman whose family was immortalized in "The Sound of Music" has returned to Austria to visit her former home.

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