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To see Kokomo's Christmas trees, you have to dive into the South Pacific. These trees aren't decorated with tinsel or lights. They're rebar skeletons suspended in the gentle currents of the Great Astrolabe Reef, covered in fragments of living coral.

Why is a five-star resort in Fiji planting metal Christmas trees underwater?

January 30, 2026December 20, 2025 by Christopher Elliott

To see Kokomo’s Christmas trees, you have to dive into the South Pacific.

These trees aren’t decorated with tinsel or lights. They’re rebar skeletons suspended in the gentle currents of the Great Astrolabe Reef, covered in fragments of living coral.

Categories Destinations
A couple experienced flight disruptions and an unexpected charge of $869 on their mother's card by United Airlines.

Why was Mom’s card charged for my ticket?

January 23, 2024March 16, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

After Robin Griffith’s honeymoon, there’s a mysterious $869 charge on her mother’s credit card for a flight from Los Angeles to Mexico City. How did it get there, and how can she get rid of it?

Categories The Travel Troubleshooter
Can This Marriage Be Saved?. We haven't saved any marriages here -- yet. But this week's case may come the closest.

Can this honeymoon be saved? Help, they closed my resort in Fiji

January 20, 2024April 4, 2011 by Christopher Elliott

Careful readers of this feature have probably figured out by now that it’s loosely based on the Ladies’ Home Journal column, Can This Marriage Be Saved?. We haven’t saved any marriages here — yet. But this week’s case may come the closest.

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