Posts Tagged Leisure travel

Cheaper gas not enough to boost summer driving

In this May 27, 2011 file photo, Costco customers fill up gas as others wait in line for gas at a Costco gas station in Santa Clara, Calif. Cheaper gas won’t be enough to spur many more road trips this summer. Americans are too worried about their jobs and the economy to feel relief.  Economists and tourism experts are expecting only a small uptick in summer travelers. Gas prices are lower, but still high enough to keep lower-income Americans off the road. The job market is improving, but still shaky. And household debt remains high.  The bulk of road trippers, experts say, are taking shorter trips, reducing food and entertainment expenses or staying closer to home to conserve cash.  (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

NEW YORK (AP) — Cheaper gas won’t be enough to get many more Americans on the road this summer. They’re still too worried about their jobs and the economy.

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Santa Fe festival will honor Navajo artist

In this April 18, 2012 photo, Navajo artist Tony Abeyta poses for a photograph in his studio in Santa Fe, N.M. The 46-year-old painter and jewelry designer is being honored as a "living treasure" as part of this year's Native Treasures Indian Arts Festival, which marks the start of Santa Fe's summer art season. The festival opens on May 25. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Artist Tony Abeyta just can’t help himself.

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In Egypt turmoil, thieves hunt pharaonic treasures

In this Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 file photo, Army special forces gesture as they escort journalists during a tour for the media in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Taking advantage of Egypt's political upheaval, thieves have gone on a treasure hunt with a spree of illegal digging, preying on the country's ancient pharaonic heritage. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill, File)

CAIRO (AP) — Taking advantage of Egypt’s political upheaval, thieves have gone on a treasure hunt with a spree of illegal digging, preying on the country’s ancient pharaonic heritage.

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Curator of Georgia O’Keeffe Museum resigns

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Few people in the world know as much about the life and art of Georgia O’Keeffe as Barbara Buhler Lynes, who resigned Friday after years as curator and director of the research center at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe.

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Bill would create coin honoring Pro Football Hall

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Two U.S. senators want to create a commemorative coin in recognition of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

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