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Watery adventures return to West Virginia

News from River Expeditions

The spring season is open at West Virginia’s most adventurous resort.

Located 4 miles south of the world famous New River Gorge Bridge, River Expeditions offers white water rafting in both rivers each season. Adventures can be selected based on the traveler's experience level, desired adventure and the time of year.

Some 15,000 cubic feet of water flows per second through the New and Gauley Rivers.
River Expeditions guides take visitors past stunning natural scenery on more than 8,000 miles of river. Camping, two-day and overnight rafting trips feature a deluxe barbecue dinner.

Hotel rooftop bees support Charlotte pollination

The Ritz-Carlton in Charlotte, N.C, has built a home for bees on its green, vegetated roof.

The roof, where 18,000 sedum plants enhance insulation for the hotel and a chef’s garden provides organic herbs, now is home to two new beehives that will generate honey for hotel culinary use.

The two fully-contained hives will be home to up to 60,000 honeybees by the time they are fully developed this summer.

Music returns to MoMA Sculpture Garden

Musical performances return to New York's Museum of Modern Art at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden in July and August.

The Museum's free Summergarden series returns to the Sculpture Garden for four Sunday evenings beginning July 11, 2010.

Summergarden, a tradition that began in 1971, is part of MoMA's long history of presenting jazz and new music concerts in an outdoor setting.  MoMA once again welcomes the participation of The Juilliard School and Jazz at Lincoln Center, whose collaboration makes possible Summergarden's continuing programs of musical premieres.

Rock Creek is a National Park getaway

News from the National Parks

If you’re planning a trip to Washington, D.C., here is a stop you may not have considered on your itinerary of several days of marble monuments, glass display cases, rooms of paintings, and iconic buildings.

Slate a day or two to get away from the Mall and explore a much different national park — a pocket of America’s great outdoors within the boundaries of the District of Columbia.

Rock Creek Park, in northwest D.C., offers a mixture of scenery, tranquility, adventure, and activity. Read this week’s feature in the National Park Getaway series to find out how you can take an outdoorsy “vacation within a vacation” when you travel to Washington.

To plan your excursion and get a taste of the history of Rock Creek Park, one of 45 national parks in the Getaways series, CLICK GETAWAYS. 

Celebrity's four Solstice ships to sail Caribbean

News from Celebrity Cruises:

Celebrity's four Solstice-class ships will sail in Europe in the summer of 2011, then head for the Caribbean for the winter of 2011-2012.

The Solstice ships will join four other Celebrity ships, offering itineraries ranging in length from 4 to 14 nights out of five homeports.
 
The new Celebrity Silhouette, launching in 2011, will sail from Cape Liberty (Bayonne), New Jersey, from November 2011 to April 2012, alternating Southern and Eastern Caribbean voyages of 12 nights.