Tagged With "volcanic ash"
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Re: United, Delta ready to retire 'Queen of the Skies'
I'm afraid to say that the changing modes of transport are a yard stick to measure your life-span. I remember with great affection travelling on a steam train. But fail to recall the hot ash that went into your eye through the open window. My favourite childhood vehicle .....
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Re: The Beautiful Pools and Geysers of Yellowstone National Park
Hi Andre, and welcome. As DrY is away on vacation, I'll try to answer your question before he gets back. Yellowstone National Park does sit on what is known as the "Yellowstone Hot Spot". You see this in its geysirs and hot water pools. This does have the potential to become a massive volcano and cause a tremendous eruption. As big as any volcano in recorded history and then some. The jet stream would carry the ash and smoke mostly east (towards the Atlantic Ocean), so those areas would be...
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Re: A Visit to Ireland: (Part 9) The Giant's Causeway
Yeah it really is a beautiful part of the world. If you get a chance, try and get to Clare's Cliff's of Moher. Also unspoiled and breath taking!
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Re: A Visit to Ireland: (Part 9) The Giant's Causeway
Hello fifitrix 100. Welcome to TravelGumbo and thanks for your comment. We have yet to find a place in Ireland we don't like! And the Cliffs of Moher are truly spectacular. Our write-up on them is at this link if you're interested
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Re: Where was Gumbo #18 - Olana, Hudson NY
Well done Jonathan. After your last clue I considered the Hudson River bunch as well as the Ash Can School but could find no reference to this place. It's quite a house.
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Washington state's Wild Horses Monument & Gingko Petrified Forest
The Columbia River is one of the most interesting and beautiful geographic features of the Inland Northwest, from its headwaters in British Columbia to the dramatic Gorge just east of Portland, Oregon. When...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Mar. 19th, 2015: Bluecoat Chambers, Liverpool UK
Opened in 1717 as a charity school, Bluecoat Chambers in School Lane is the oldest surviving building in central Liverpool, UK. When I'm walking the streets of Philly, Boston and New York admiring the architecture, I often wonder...
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Flight cancellations continue: Not just winter, now it's ash!
Alaska Airlines has been forced to cancel a number of flights within Alaska due to poor visibility caused by an ash cloud from Russian volcanoes erupting on the Kamchatka Peninsula. From USA Today, MORE That's added to the chaos...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, March 10, 2015: Oh Deer, you are Hungry!
Winter in Alberta is long and can be harsh. With snow covering the land, food for wildlife can be hard to get. That’s when we see deer wandering around the residential areas searching for something to...
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Death Valley National Park
Death Valley is one of the most desolate place I have been. Others include central Greenland and the Dead Sea. Death Valley is the lowest place in the western hemisphere at 282 feet (86 metres) below sea level. The Dead Sea in Israel is 1,370...
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Carnival Celebrations in Trinidad & Tobago
Carnival is an annual celebration of life found in many countries around the world. It first originated as a pagan festival in ancient Egypt which was subsequently celebrated by the Greeks and then the Romans. Carnival was later adopted by the Roman...
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Iceland opens volcano-and-earthquake museum
Iceland's newest museum looks at the volcanic forces that created its land and which, in recent years, have reminded all of us of nature's power.
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Sicily's Mount Etna in big eruption
Mount Etna, one of Italy's two active volcanoes, began an eruption on the night of February 27, sending flame, smoke and lava into the air, continuing into the morning. The eruption was visible from the cities of Catania and Taormina; the volcano is Catania's next-door neighbor. While a flurry of volcanic activity in January led to some schools being briefly evacuated, scientists at Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology say that this eruption is not a danger to people or...
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The Day the Sky Went Dark
Remembering the 2010 ash cloud, the last time so much of the world's aviation was shut down.
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Ashland, Virginia: "Center of the Universe"
Stephanie shares a visit to the charming community of Ashland, known by some as the "Center of the Universe".
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New ancient treasures for Rome, Pompeii
A tomb that may be that of Rome's founder is shown, and a major Pompeii building re-opens.
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Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, NY
Jonathan L takes us to Gumbo's destination of Flushing Meadows Park in Queens NY
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Revillagigedos: the world’s friendliest mantas and dolphins!
( Oceanic Manta) Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexico (better known as Socorro) consisting of 4 volcanic islands; San Benedicto, Roca Partida, Socorro and Clarión. What to see: Giant oceanic mantas, bottlenose dolphins, sharks...
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London's Battersea Power Station gets flashy neighbors
A raft of new buildings, including efforts by A-list architects such as Norman Foster and Frank Gehry will soon be going up around London's Battersea Power Station, seen below. After years of plans that have fallen through, this one appears to be...
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Union Square Holiday Market - New York City
Jonathan L takes us shopping for holiday presents at the Union Square Market in New York.
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12 Exciting Festivals around the World Worth Experiencing
Love a great party? Swara Segal offers 12 of the biggest and best from around the world for your consideration. (Sponsored Content)
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A Walk through Florida's Everglades: Big Cypress Bend boardwalk at Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park
The Everglades is a fascinating and unique place -- a broad shallow river slowly moving to the sea and covering a large portion of southwestern Florida in a thin layer of water. Mostly the Everglades is characterized by its "River of...
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A journey around Iceland: 3) South Iceland
(Black sand beach in Vik, Iceland) Many think South Iceland offers the island’s most spectacular scenery. It’s hard to argue with this except to say that we found all of Iceland to be filled with...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Sept. 14, 2014: Super-Sized in Seattle
Seattle's Pacific Science Center, just near the Space Needle, is a wonderland of interactive science exhibits for adults and especially for children, much of it high-tech and up to date. But, children that we are, this became our favorite memory of...
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Heads Up for Travelers: Iceland's Volcanoes May Disrupt Travel Again
Don't panic, but keep alert if you have trans-Atlantic travel plans in the next few weeks. The Icelandic Meteorological Office has reported a sudden flurry of small earthquakes that could be a prelude to an eruption of Bardarbunga, one of the...
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Tourists taking pictures refuse to evacuate eruption zone
Tourists in an Indonesian national park defied efforts to evacuate them from a danger zone near a volcanic eruption: They wanted to keep taking pictures!
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Exploring Guatemala’s Pacaya Volcano National Park
Marilyn Jones's horseback adventure on Guatemala's Pacaya Volcano has horses, great view and beautiful fields of wildflowers.
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Rome getting unwanted new attraction: Active volcanoes
Rome's long-dormant volcanoes are moving, slowly, toward future eruptions. Hopefully for Rome, not too soon.
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Brooklyn Museum's Garden of Remains
The museum has a great sculpture garden, but most of its exhibits are rescues from New York's relentless redevelopment.
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California moves to ban those tiny shampoos
A bill moving through the assembly would ban mini bottles to cut down on plastic waste. Hotels would be required to use larger bottles or bulk dispensers.
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In Italy, a festival for chimney sweeps
An Italian town holds an international festival to honor a dangerous, and now declining trade.
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EasyJet Flies Planes into Fake Ash Cloud
EasyJet tests planes so another shutdown of air traffic in Europe doesn't occur. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tra...chnology-tested.html
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Herculaneum, 79 A.D.
As a visitor to Naples, Italy and the surrounding countryside, it’s hard to disregard the presence of Mt. Vesuvius looming everywhere one goes. For example, should one forget for a moment, we have only to step onto the...
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Charlottesville, Virginia: Land of Presidents
The region immediately around Charlottesville was home to three American Presidents – Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and James Madison (the 3rd, 4th and 5th Presidents of the United States) – an impressive record for any city...
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Antigua, Guatemala: Walking Tour, Part 2
Antigua (Guatemala) is about 45 minutes away from Guatemala city. Located on the central highlands it is surrounded by several volcanoes, the largest of which, Volcan de Agua, has erupted several times, triggering associated earthquakes that have...
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March 29, 2016: Crocuses
Crocuses are blossoming and reminding us that summer will soon be visiting us in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Mount Etna erupts again, blocks flights
With a massive ash plume and minor earthquakes, Mount Etna pushes its way into the news again.
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10 Most Beautiful Places to Visit at Qatar
Qatar has a rich culmination 0f beauty, wealth & culture. Travellers across the globe get immensely attracted to this place of rich heritage & modern infrastructure & visit this annually. We assure if you are planning your next visit to Qatar, you won't be bored. This place is having such a long list of attraction that any visitor will surely feel the dilemma of picking places to visit. We have filtered down & formed this possibly ultimate list of most beautiful places in...
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Re: Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre
Wise thoughts Dr F. Many of the life changing events in the history of this planet occur around the time of Volcanic destruction. Mini Ice Ages caused by the sun being blocked from view by the airborne ash that covered the planet. Krakatoa being the most recent eruption. 13,000 times greater than Hiroshima. So severe that the explosion could be heard around the world twice as the sound and ash travelled in all directions. Much easier to blame mankind's excesses. Here in the North of England...
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Re: Rome getting unwanted new attraction: Active volcanoes
We hear similar warnings here about Mt. Rainier and the Yellowstone hotspot. Hopefully we'll all be long gone before anything of consequence happens.
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Re: Rome getting unwanted new attraction: Active volcanoes
Just as I thought - a Volcano is only safe until the next time ! I will put my experience of Diamond Head Volcano up there with my first Marathon ! So brave - maybe ....
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5 European Road Trips You Should Take in Your Lifetime
Looking for some fabulous road trips in Europe? Sonai has some great suggestions for you (sponsored content)
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McIntosh Sugarmill, St Mary's, Georgia
Travel Rob visits 'tabby ruins' and lets us in on their fascinating history and structure.
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Corning Museum: Glass of the Ages
At the Corning Museum of Glass, PHeymont enjoyed learning about the early history of glass.
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Hawaii: Kilauea erupts on Big Island
An earthquake followed by an eruption grab Hawaii's news headlines from tourism issues
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Grounds for Sculpture, New Jersey
Stephanie Kalina-Metzger takes to visit the unusual sculpture garden created by sculptor Seward Johnson.
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Pre-Viking hoard goes to Denmark museum
A stash of gold and other coins found in southwestern Denmark will give museum-goers new insights into the pre-Viking era
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Volcanoes making travel news
Volcanic eruptions around the world are both an attraction to visitors and a danger to air traffic and homes.
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Spain says La Palma eruption is over
After three months, the Cumbre Vieja volcano has apparently stopped erupting, but recovery on La Palma will take a long time.