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The 2010 Travel Geography Quiz
If they awarded the Medal of Honor for maintaining a straight face despite almost unbearable provocation, Navy Adm. Robert Willard, head of the Pacific...
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Yellowstone-Grand Teton tour: At home on the range
Cowboy Sean McGough stoked the flames as smoke filled our nostrils and made our eyes tear. The branding iron turned a bright red, and we subconsciously...
A surfer's paradise at Playa Guiones, Costa Rica
Less than 20 years ago, this remote jungle hamlet on the pristine central Pacific side of Costa Rica mostly saw gringos of the fringy type - eccentrics...
A beautiful adventure on Maria Island, Tasmania
It's like a footstool covered in gray-blonde shag pile - and it's ambling straight for us. Its eyes probably obscured by that long fur, its oblivious to...
Gadget junkies love to take technology on trips
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...
Barcelona by bike
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...
Zurich: Old city, new times
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...
L.A.: Walking where few have walked before
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...
Great Basin an overlooked (and misnamed) wonder
Motoring across the vast, brown expanse of eastern Nevada on the "loneliest road in America," one grows accustomed to witnessing the occasional mirage ...
Riding the Kimberley, Australia frontier
"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...
Chic shift in Boston neighborhoods
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...
Heli-hiking a stairway to heaven in Canada
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...
Molokai needs Father Damien's perseverance
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...
Guanajuato, Mexico, where Old World still lingers
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...
New Orleans: Second life and second line
Following the wrath of Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of flooded, gutted cars littered the medians below Highway 10 in New Orleans like a mute, metallic...
Magical Pueblos an alternative Mexican vacation
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...
Seville, Spain: History, flamenco and tapas
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...
Norwegian Epic offers a big twist on cruising
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...
Packing light: Yes, you can shed heavy baggage
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...
Three faces of Tahoe: Bargain, rustic and luxury
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...
Brazil's backyard jungle a rugged, restful strip
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...
Hillside towns offer different view of Riviera
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...
Vancouver to Banff: Climbing the Rockies by rail
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...
A new South Africa ready to welcome World Cup
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...
Gilbraltar's history full of mystery
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...
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