Burlington posts

by Katie Hammel (RSS feed) (20 days ago)
Nov 6th, 2009 at 12:30PM: I agree with Mike Barish's recent post. Road trips do rock. I love grabbing some friends, jumping in the car, and blasting great music as we cruise down the highway or along back roads. If you love a good road trip.....and you happen to live in Texas or on the east coast......and you want to drive one-way to Florida.....and you just happen to plan on going before November 15, well then Thrifty Car ...

by Jeremy Kressmann (RSS feed) (6 months ago)
May 26th, 2009 at 11:00AM: Check out that gorgeous sunset vista. With that kind of view and a beautiful body of water nearby, you'd probably guess this was somewhere tropical. The Bahamas? Wrong, try again. San Diego, perhaps? Not that either. This sweet view can only be found in Burlington, Vermont: a little gem of a town nestled in the northern half of the state along the shores of mighty Lake Champlain. Let's be honest ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (8 months ago)
Mar 18th, 2009 at 2:00PM: When AirTran's first flight touched down in Burlington almost a year ago, the airline's director for strategic planning and scheduling, John Kirby, said, "This is going to be a home run." I guess that didn't work out. It didn't even last a year. AirTran's nonstop service between Burlington, VT and the Washington, D.C. area is now but a memory "seasonal." The route will now be serviced for around ...

by Willy Volk (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Mar 5th, 2007 at 1:27PM: San Francisco's Lombard Street is widely thought to be the World's Crookedest Street. But did you know that Burlington, Iowa's "Snake Alley" was officially named by Ripley's Believe It or Not? as the "Crookedest Street in the World"?
Built in 1894, Snake Alley was conceived as a "more direct link" between Burlington's business and shopping districts. Working together, three public-spirited ...