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Southwest Life/Travel

From trails to exhibits, parks aim to increase accessibility

CAVE CITY, Ky. – David Allgood and Tom Stokes glide up a slight incline to the wooden platform overlooking the Green River at Mammoth Cave National Park. From there, they watch through a gla...

DATE: Jul 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Adults roam free on this night at the museum

In New York, elsewhere, slumber parties are a hit

DATE: Jul 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Canoeing in the quiet beauty of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters

BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS, Minn. – Every paddle stroke sprinkled water drops, reflecting the setting sun like sparklers across the black, glacier-carved lake. Just a f...

DATE: Jul 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Hawaii town hopes lava tourism will bring economic relief

HONOLULU – Stunning images of Hawaii’s erupting Kilauea volcano have captivated people around the world. But ironically it’s nearly impossible for residents and visitors on the ground to see...

DATE: Jul 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Scenic California highway near Big Sur reopens after slide

BIG SUR, Calif. – A scenic stretch of Highway 1 in a popular tourist area along the California coast reopened to traffic Wednesday, more than a year after it was blocked by a massive landsli...

DATE: Jul 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Archaeologists find ancient pottery workshop in Egypt

CAIRO – Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered an ancient pottery manufacturing workshop dating to more than 4,000 years ago. Thursday’s statement by the Antiquities Ministry say...

DATE: Jul 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

California woman describes finding cliff plunge survivor

LOS ANGELES – A self-described beachcomber says it was her luckiest find yet: A woman who survived a 250-foot car plunge off a cliff and a week stranded on a remote California beach. ...

DATE: Jul 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Psychology museum explores what makes us human

Oddities, insights from past to present

DATE: Jul 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Tourists explore an abandoned Chinese ‘ghost village’ engulfed by nature

HOUTOUWAN, China – Blanketed with greenery, the ghost town is perched atop cliffs looking west into sea mists obscuring the horizon. Abandoned homes ravaged by weather and creeping vines sta...

DATE: Jul 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Tracing Nelson Mandela’s footsteps 100 years after his birth

QUNU, South Africa – July 18 marks 100 years since the birth of Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013. Visitors can follow in Mandela’s footsteps from the villages where he was born an...

DATE: Jul 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Show tells backstory of icons like Rushmore, Lady Liberty

Did you know that the original symbolism of the Statue of Liberty had nothing to do with welcoming immigrants? And that Mount Rushmore was basically built as a scheme to get road-trippers to...

DATE: Jul 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Feminists, animal rights groups reshape Pamplona bull fest

PAMPLONA, Spain – The topics of sexual abuse and animal cruelty are dominating this year’s San Fermin festival in Pamplona, which kicks off Friday for nine days and eight nights of round-the...

DATE: Jul 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

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