Globe-trotting
Make it a family affair this summer
Now's the time to start thinking about summer camp for your kids. Here's an option: Hog Island Audubon Center in midcoast Maine has one-of-a-kind family camps. The center's Family Birding Adventure (June 29-July 5) focuses on bird-watching activities. Family Camp (July 6-11) is about all things outdoors, including locating Atlantic puffins, harbor seals, and bald eagle nests. The Labor Day Family Retreat (Aug. 30-Sept. 1) includes easy strolls on Hog Island, a boat cruise, and a lobster feast.
CHRIS MURPHY
Louvre works land in Quebec
Tickets for the Musée National des Beaux-arts du Quebec's exclusive exhibit, "The Louvre in Quebec City," are on sale now. The one-time-only exhibit of more than 270 major works selected from eight Louvre departments and representing 5,000 years of history will be on view from June 5 through Oct. 26. Tickets are $15 and must be reserved for specific dates and times. They can by ordered by telephone 877-643-8131 or online.
HILARY NANGLE
Your shrinking sky-mile account
Yo, Travel Dude, your life, well, it bites more and more. US Airways says it will no longer give a minimum of 500 miles for a flight, instead giving credit only for actual miles. This puts a crack in what had been pretty much a longstanding policy throughout the industry that allowed many in the Gray Flannel Brigade and others to really rack up miles. And you know that once one of them does it. . . .
PAUL MAKISHIMA 