There was a time when the pinnacle of advanced technology in the average traveler's luggage was a portable curling iron or a Norelco shaver with spinning...
Barcelonans might be the coolest people on the planet. They live surrounded by the best of Gaudi's fantastical buildings, the latest in modernista design...
I'm climbing a metal stairway inside a metal building in the new Zurich-West district, thinking just how much the building looks like the big cargo...
Contrary to popular notion, it's legal to walk in Los Angeles. In fact, some people walk in L.A. by choice, it being the accepted means of getting to and...
Motoring across the vast, brown expanse of eastern Nevada on the "loneliest road in America," one grows accustomed to witnessing the occasional mirage ...
"Roight," said the leather-skinned man leaning through the car window. "I'll tell ya how to get there." He wore short shorts and that token of Aussie...
If you're one of those people who assumes Boston hasn't changed since Fenway Park opened and Faneuil Hall was freshened up, here's a suggestion for the...
This is the point in the movie, I'm guessing, where even Indiana Jones would drop to his knees and gibber like a blubbering kindergartner. High over...
Vandalism, petty theft, fire, high winds, landslides - for a newly canonized saint, Father Damien has been having one hell of a year. The 19th century...
In the City Made from Silver, the Basilica is a bright gold, bistro table tops are hammered copper and the Spanish balconies are black iron. At the moment...
Following the wrath of Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of flooded, gutted cars littered the medians below Highway 10 in New Orleans like a mute, metallic...
As the bus clambered up one hillside after another toward Valle de Bravo, the fresh, pine-scented air and wooden homes tucked into deep woods felt more...
It seemed I had about as much chance of finding Christopher Columbus as he had had of finding India in the Caribbean. Somewhere among the Cathedral of...
It wasn't so long ago they were referred to as "ladies." The sleek, dazzling ocean liners that inspired feelings of loyalty and longing were debutantes...
The moment it hit me that I could fit three of my carry-ons into my sister's one gargantuan suitcase was a turning point, an epiphany, a revelation. We...
For most of my life, you would have had trouble convincing me that the best of all possible Lake Tahoe accommodations was anything other than a musty old...
In downtown Rio de Janeiro, in the shadow of one of the city's most famous landmarks, concrete jungle meets the real thing. Just past the double-decker...
Ambling up an ancient cobblestone path through a quiet, car-less portion of tiny Eze Village seemed to be light years from that morning - maneuvering the...
The more I fly, the more I love train trips. It's not just the rail world's lack of airport security, cattle-car ambience and gut-wrenching turbulence...
In the riot-plagued Johannesburg township of Soweto during the tumultuous 1970s, Joe Motsogi wouldn't have dared mix with the "enemy." "A black person...
We'd been in Gibraltar four hours and had yet to find anyone who could shed some light on Winston Churchill's secret monkey plan. Or maybe they just...
In the days when travelers entered port cities by sea, Mumbai must have presented a handsome prospect. It still does, with the signature Gateway of India...
The Historical Landmark sign along Highway 50 isn't promising - bent, faded, defaced with graffiti - and most folks drive on by. With a half-dead horse...
No one is saying getting to Europe is going to be easy. The airlines, striking workers, the economic meltdown and, now, Mother Nature and her volcanic...
Eastern Europe -- Prague , the most-visited city in the region, is nearing completion on the first phrase of the restoration of its iconic Charles Bridge ...
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