Rare steam-powered yachts to race May 15 off San Diego

http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/rare-steam-powered-y-6850/

Travel Networking Resource: Couchsurfing.org

One of the my favorite resources that I tap in preparing for any international travel is VirtualTourist.com

Today I came across another cool travel related site: CouchSurfing.org

Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean

http://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_jackson.html

"...coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators that things will get much worse"