| Market jitters leave travelers rattled but resolute and Man pleads guilty in LA to stowaway charge |
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The market’s up, the market’s down, the market’s all over the map. Is it any wonder that travelers’ sentiments are being buffeted by the ongoing economic turbulence?“The people who are looking for an excuse not to go will use the stock market as their excuse,” said Mike Weingart, president of Air Land Sea Consultants in Houston. “Those that want to go will go anyway because they figure, ‘Hey, why not?’”Meanwhile, the vast majority in the middle are doing what they always do in uncertain times: making plans, trimming costs and doing whatever they can to avoid settling for another staycation.“I’m keeping an eye on the market and it scares the crap out of me,” said Keith Marshall, a marketing consultant in Providence, R.I. [Read the full article] A new network of stainless steel mesh tunnels allows adorable monkeys to stray far from their usual cages.Craig Person and Edmund Yang were photographed holding hands on the Psycho Mouse ride at California's Great America park in August 2008, according to the complaint filed Monday in Santa Clara County Superior Court. The pair viewed the digital photo after the ride but declined to purchase it.Later in the day, their friend saw the same photo printed out and displayed on a counter at another ride after someone had added a bubble caption above their heads that contained the slur, the complaint said. The friend confiscated the photo and turned it over to Person and Yang.Wendy Musell, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said the men immediately went to Great America human resources managers, who were initially responsive to their concerns but eventually stopped communication with them, prompting the lawsuit. [Read the full article] Msnbc's Tamron Hall talks with Kevin Cohen, who caught the fall of the big chunk of ice on his camera.A 60-year-old woman suffered a compound fracture of her right leg Thursday after the glacier tour boat she was aboard in Tracy Arm was hit by ice chunks and a wave from a nearby calving glacier, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.A video filmed by a passenger on the Tracy Arm Fjords Tours vessel was posted on the Internet Sunday. In the clip, passengers duck and scream in surprise as the wave hits, then gather around a figure lying on the deck.Coast Guard public affairs specialist Jonathan Lally says the woman lost her balance and fell after the wave rocked the boat. The Coast Guard was informed of the situation but had no further involvement, as the vessel independently returned to Juneau and was met by emergency medical services. [Read the full article] 
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