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Welcome, City Slickers. Each summer, Hondoo Rivers & Trails, an outfitter in southern Utah, offers the Inn to Inn horseback-riding package, which includes three days' ride in Capitol Reef National Park and two days in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. You'll have fun on the trails by day, and relaxation in a proper bed at a B&B by night. Rates start at $2,250 per person for six nights and include outfitting, lodging, all meals and transportation (for a limited time, Hondoo is offering a 15% discount on reservations for two or more, dropping the price...
...city from the militants," he says. "We are doing spot checks in the city and the surrounding rural areas. But we cannot check every single car." He points out the sacrifices that Peshawar's policemen have made in recent years. In the courtyard of his fortified offices is a monument consecrated to the memory of the policemen killed. But the marble structure has also served to deplete morale, with many requesting a transfer out of what has become Pakistan's most dangerous city...
...Quite Roughing It. In California's Giant Sequoia National Monument, there's a getaway-from-it-all camp resort - you'll have to hike a mile just to get to your canvas cabin (but it's an easy mile). Once you get there, however, the Sequoia High Sierra Camp will pamper you with proper beds, down pillows, rugs and reading lights in your own canvas bungalow. You won't have to carry in your own food - three meals are served daily in the camp's open-air lodge. The resort opens June 19, with rates starting at $250 per night...
Barack Obama began his latest overseas trip on a mission to increase international cooperation, with a visit to Islam's holiest land, Saudi Arabia, and its most dynamic intellectual hub, Cairo. He ended it four days later at a monument to what such common purpose can achieve...
...Leslie E. Nightingale ’09 last May, his plan did not unfold exactly the way he intended. On their first date their freshman year, Rinehart, a religion concentrator from Northfield, Minn., took Nightingale, a history and literature concentrator from St. Louis, Mo., to the Bunker Hill Monument. So when he decided to ask Nightingale to marry him, that monument seemed like the logical choice for location. This time around, Rinehart decided to take the bus instead of the subway in order to keep the proposal a surprise. After losing the monument from their sight on a walk that...