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Visit America’s Most Underrated Parks
Among the 58 national parks in the United States, the marquee parks — Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Yosemite — are well worth visiting, but have drawbacks, like high admission prices and enormous crowds. Nearly 400 national parks can be found all across America, just waiting for people to strap on their boots and go exploring.  Full story from MSN.com

Protests Continue in Bangkok
The U.S. Department of State elevated its travel warning to advise citizens to defer all travel to Bangkok and defer all non-essential travel to the rest of Thailand and has authorized the departure of all non-emergency U.S. government personnel and eligible family members from Bangkok. Full story from CNN.com Traveling in an 'a la Carte' World
As the hotel industry adopts cost cutting measures from airlines such as “non-refundable” rooms they’re driving customers away.  But unlike with airlines, we’re not down to two or three major players; instead, there are tens of thousands of hotels regulated by the states and customers can still walk away and prevent this from getting out of hand.
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