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Wired Icelanders seek to keep remote peninsula digital-free

Wired Icelanders seek to keep remote peninsula digital-free

DATE: Sep 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Ties between urban horsemen, Mennonites bolster old trade

BALTIMORE – At an inner-city stable in one of the grittiest areas of Baltimore, a vanishing breed of urban horsemen prepares for its weekly visit to Pennsylvania Dutch country, where Mennoni...

DATE: Sep 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Eudora Welty gets first marker on Mississippi writers trail

JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi has markers noting a blues trail, a country music trail, a civil rights trail and even an Indian mound trail. Now, with the dedication of a marker to ...

DATE: Sep 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Ten things I never knew about Las Vegas – until I ran a high-roller suite

In Las Vegas, the ultimate sand trap-turned-capital of capitalism, there’s no better byword for sophistication than the Cosmopolitan. Its 20-plus suites, known as the Boulevard P...

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

In Jamestown, a reckoning over American slavery’s beginnings

JAMESTOWN, Va. – On a recent afternoon, tour guide Justin Bates pointed to the spot where historic Jamestown’s legislature first convened in July 1619. He then gestured toward another nearby...

DATE: Sep 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

A living history museum looks at how it presents lives of blacks, women

BOSTON – A Massachusetts living history museum that depicts life in the early 19th century is looking to overhaul the way it presents the past in an effort to stay relevant to a 21st-century...

DATE: Sep 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Cape Cod beaches: Playgrounds for tourists – and young sharks

BOSTON – As another beach season draws to a close on Cape Cod, researchers are trying to figure out what’s driving the increase in shark sightings and encounters – including the state’s firs...

DATE: Sep 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Tiny Alaska village experiences boom in polar bear tourism

JUNEAU, Alaska – A tiny Alaska Native village has experienced a boom in tourism in recent years as polar bears spend more time on land than on diminishing Arctic sea ice. More tha...

DATE: Sep 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Arizona canyon famed for waterfalls reopens after flooding

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) – Weeks after flooding rushed through a world-famous gorge off the Grand Canyon, sending tourists fleeing to higher ground, the Arizona tribe that calls the area home i...

DATE: Sep 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Get the window seat, and more tips to stay healthy while flying

Clean that tray table, too

DATE: Sep 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

North Korea allows tourists to climb rarely seen peak

MOUNT PAEKTU, North Korea – Foreign tourists looking to go off the beaten path in North Korea can now camp out on the country’s biggest volcano. Hoping to open up a side of North ...

DATE: Aug 31, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Quebec City’s enticing tableau beyond the wall

QUEBEC CITY (AP) – It’s what’s inside the historic wall of Quebec City that makes people want to visit. It’s what’s outside that makes people want to stay. To visit without ventur...

DATE: Aug 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

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