SWIMMING IN THE CLEAR

You know when you are on vacation (or home) and you go to the ocean/sea/lake/other body of water and it's almost like walking into a dark pit of unknown fear. You walk in and start swimming only to feel something slimy on your feet or legs, fish nibbling at your body or a freaky unawareness of just how deep the water is...I don't know about you, but that scares the living shittake mushrooms out of me and I would rather just lay on the beach and become a lobster instead of experience that.

If you hate it too, here's a list of 34 places throughout the world that has clear water (thank you water gods):

1. Linapacan Island, Palawan, Philippines

2. The Maldives

3. Dog Island, San Blas, Panama

4. Cayo Coco, Cuba

5. Cala Macarelleta, Menorca, Spain

6. Sua Trench, Samoa

7. Crater Lake, Oregon, USA

8. Bak Bak Beach, Borneo

9. Jiuzhaigou Valley, Sichuan, China

10. Sabah, Malaysia

11. Jenny Lake, Wyoming, USA

12. Rio Sucuri, Brazil 

13. Calanque de Sormiou, France

14. Panari Island, Okinawa, Japan

15. Puerto Ayora, Galapagos

16. Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA

17. Cayos Cochinos, Honduras

18. Primosten, Croatia

19. St. George, Bermuda

20. Hanauma Bay, Oahu, Hawaii

21. Pupu Springs, New Zealand

22. Calanque d'En-Vau, France

23. Rio Azul, Argentina

24. Corfu, Greece

25. Aitutaki, Cook Islands

26. Koh Phi Phi Don, Thailand

27. Playa Blanca, Colombia

28. Blue Lake, New Zealand (apparently the clearest water in the world)

29. Konigssee, Germany

30. Valle Verzasca, Switzerland

31. Tioman Island, Malaysia

32. Belo Sur Mer, Madagascar

33. Lake Marjorie, California, USA

34. Bodrum, Turkey

I'm dreaming of basking in these waters, are you?

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Amazing UFO over Santee, California - May 23, 2013

SANTEE, San Diego, Calif. - 10News went looking for answers after a local woman snapped photos of an unidentified object flying over Santee.

Ellen Henry told 10News her camera stopped working after snapping photos at a historical barn.

Henry said she is convinced that whatever she saw hovering over Santee's Edgmoore Barn is not from this world. She did not want to show her face on camera because she said she was still spooked by what she captured.

"I was like what was it doing there," said Henry. "Why was it there? What was it doing? And I said, the next time I come here, the barn will be beamed up."

The barn sits under several flight paths. 10News contacted Gillespie Field and MCAS Miramar, but neither could offer an explanation:

Some say what flew overhead is not out of the ordinary because of what has been reported around the barn.

"We think someone's come into the barn and we get up to look, and no one is there," said Elaine Murphy, president of the Santee Historical Society.

The group, which oversees the barn-turned-museum, said the property used to be part of a poor farm and hospital grounds. It also draws paranormal investigators because of reported ghost sightings.

Some residents are weighing in on the idea of a UFO hovering over a haunted barn.

"Oh yeah, I do believe we are not alone out here, that's for sure," said one resident.

10News checked with the National UFO Reporting Center and found that only one UFO sighting has been reported in San Diego during the month of May.

 

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FAMILY VACATION + CHEAP? NO PROBLEM.

Summer is just around the corner and many people, families, college students alike all want to travel during the warmer months...there's just one problem: it needs to be cheap because it's all about budgeting now-a-days. Well, if you are in America this summer and traveling with your family, this post is for you!

1. Carlsbad, California

2. Deep Creek, Delaware (I added this one myself because it's a great camping place!)

3. Chicago, Illinois

4. Orcas Island, Washington

5. Ozark Mountains, Arkansas

6. Niagara Falls, New York/Canada

7. Ocean City, Maryland

8. Jersey Shore, New Jersey

9. Crater Lake, Oregon

10. Lake Clark, Alaska

11. Lake Michigan, Michigan/Wisconsin/Indiana/Illinois

12. Denali Park, Alaska

Tomorrow, the Iceland post will be up in the wee hours of the morning so you can read all about the country with a name that does not fit the country's physical description (Iceland is actually GREEN and not of ICE, while Greenland is ICE and not of GREEN).

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THE BEST AIRLINES IN THE WORLD

Now, I don't know about you, but for me, choosing which airline to fly with is a major decision in my travel plans. I am terrified of turbulence or flying with any airline that does not have the best reputation in terms of safety. I always have this fear that the airplane will just spontaneously break in the sky, run out of fuel or something unrealistic will happen when flying. Even the teeniest, tiniest bit of turbulence freaks me out to the point I have to put my head down and pretend it's all a dream...dramatic, I know. I also like comfortable seats, reasonable legroom, my own TV and good (or edible) food during my flight. When I flew with Air France over winter break from Prague--> Paris--> Washington D.C. I was really pleased with the service, comfort factor and safety of the flight. This summer, I am flying Swiss Airline from Barcelona to New York City then back to Zurich and catching a connecting flight to Prague (in August).

With all of that being said, when I came across this article the other day, I was happy to read that I have flown with some of these airlines in the past and will know in the future which airlines to look for first.

On the list:

• JetBlue Airlines
• Southwest Airlines
• WestJet
• LAN
• Aer Lingus
• EasyJet (taking my first flight with them from Amsterdam to Barcelona this June)
• RyanAir
• FastJet
• Hawaiian Airlines
• JetStar

Of these, I have flown JetBlue and Southwest Airlines. Again, I am getting ready to fly EasyJet so I will give you guys a review/opinion on that when the time comes. When I move to South America, I will try to fly with LAN airlines and when I go elsewhere in the world I will try to fly some of these to test out just how good they are. 

Have a lovely Saturday- enjoy, relax, breathe easy and make some travel plans. 

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Western Maryland, USA