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In our newest weekly roundup, CNN Journey celebrates love tales: The gal buddies who bonded over marriage misgivings, the 22-year-olds who discovered their life companion by shopping for cheapskate standby tickets and the gibbon who mystified zookeepers by having a child when she lived alone in her cage.

Life’s turning factors occur on the journey, not on the vacation spot.

Maggie Musgrave was flying again from her bachelorette occasion, crying as a result of she thought the marriage was a mistake, when she discovered consolation by speaking with fellow traveler Cindy Jarrin at a Miami airport. Maggie’s marriage didn’t work out, however her decade-long friendship with Cindy is a love story for the ages.

And 22-year-old Vickie Moretz had by no means left the southern United States when she and her buddy booked standby flights to London in 1982 – with out understanding what standby meant. After pleading with airline employees, Vickie received the final seat on the aircraft and was seated subsequent to a 22-year-old Englishman named Graham. They married earlier than the top of the 12 months and, 4 a long time on, theirs is a whirlwind romance that by no means stopped.

No, you’re not simply imagining it. European locations actually are reserving up quick, even in low season.

On-line reserving platforms, tour operators and resort firms affirm that US vacationers are busy packing their baggage for transatlantic adventures earlier than spring leaves are even in bud. The elevated demand is pushing up costs, too. Right here’s our report so you can begin working in your 2023 trip technique.

Oversubscribed locations are being more and more selective concerning the varieties of vacationers they need to entice. The most recent transfer in Amsterdam’s “keep away” marketing campaign to discourage party-hungry vacationers is to ban marijuana use on the streets of its pink gentle district.

And late final 12 months, a French ski resort grew to become the primary in Europe to ban tobacco smoking in all its communal areas.

Snow leopards made the information twice this week: As soon as because the profitable picture within the Wildlife Photographer of the Yr Folks’s Alternative Award and as soon as as one of many creatures focused within the latest Dallas Zoo animal thefts. The 24-year-old suspect charged with the spree reportedly informed police that if he will get out of jail, he would do it once more.

Mexico has banned shark-related tourism actions on Guadalupe Island off the coast of Baja California, a preferred spot for pursuits together with cage diving and sport fishing. The wildlife safety determination successfully ends the island’s once-busy tourism economic system.

Lastly, federal authorities opened an unattended bag at a Detroit airport and found a younger dolphin’s cranium. It’s been handed over to US Fish and Wildlife Service inspectors for investigation.

Divers Jonas Dahm and Carl Douglas have devoted 25 years to wreck-hunting. A e-book now gathers collectively their eerie images of the barnacle-clad vessels they’ve found within the icy waters of the Baltic Sea.

Passengers are getting more and more proactive relating to misplaced baggage, with many utilizing GPS trackers to find their lacking baggage – resembling skilled poker participant Steve O’Dwyer, who went on an epic marketing campaign, together with a dwell TV broadcast, to retrieve his bag from London Heathrow.

Our companions at CNN Underscored, a product evaluations and suggestions information owned by CNN, have put collectively 9 AirTag suggestions and methods that will help you get essentially the most out of your Apple tracker.

A feminine gibbon who lived alone in her cage had a child.

Japanese zookeepers have lastly discovered how.

When daylight and water hit excellent, the “Firefall” at Yosemite Nationwide Park is one in all nature’s miracles.

However for the February 2023 season, you’ll want reservations for sure dates.

A FedEx aircraft touchdown in Texas nearly hit a Southwest flight taking off.

Watch CNN’s report on the near-miss.

The Orient Categorical is launching a cruise ship.

The 120-passenger sailboat will set out in 2026.