Southwest Life/Travel

Despite high hopes, hot weather dulls fall foliage season in New England

EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. – Tour buses continued to pack into a maple sugar farm on the outskirts of Vermont’s capital during the first week of October, the peak of foliage season for travelers l...

DATE: Oct 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Traveling with just one child can forge bonds

One-on-one adventures create deeper connections

DATE: Oct 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Wandering Walden Pond: Thoreau’s retreat offers history lesson, recreation in all seasons

CONCORD, Mass. – Henry David Thoreau went to the woods because, as he famously put it, “I wished to live deliberately.” Two centuries after the Walden author’s birth, people are d...

DATE: Oct 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

1 of oldest Native American birch-bark canoes now on display

BRUNSWICK, Maine – One of the oldest-known examples of a Native American birch-bark canoe is on display at a museum in Maine, where indigenous tribes have used them for thousands of years. ...

DATE: Oct 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Can Halloween freak you out any more than the real world?

NEW YORK – In case the real world’s not scary enough, there are plenty of Halloween attractions out there designed to completely freak you out. One in New York called This Is Real promises t...

DATE: Oct 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Arkansas city hopes $100 million effort will restore glory

EL DORADO, Ark. – An oil and timber town that was Arkansas’ richest community nearly a century ago believes that building a $100 million arts district in its historic downtown will spark a “...

DATE: Oct 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

SpaceX: Rocket for moon, Mars and N.Y. to Shanghai in 39 minutes

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX chief Elon Musk’s elaborate plan for a mega-rocket to carry astronauts to Mars may have some down-to-Earth applications. At a conference in Australia...

DATE: Oct 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

In Mark Twain house, you can play live ‘Clue’ game

Novelty tours aim to generate repeat visits

DATE: Oct 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Stealthy, scarce and spectacular: Viewing tigers in India

A photographer goes on safari

DATE: Sep 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Climber: Rock fall strikes Yosemite for a second day

SAN FRANCISCO – A massive new rock fall hit Yosemite National Park on Thursday, cracking with a thundering roar off the iconic El Capitan rock formation and sending huge plumes of white dust...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Smithsonian’s black history museum popular destination in D.C.

WASHINGTON – In its first year, the Smithsonian’s new black museum has become the nation’s top temple to blackness, an Afrocentric shrine on the National Mall where people of all races, colo...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

New Orleans museum to display oldest photographs of U.S. landscapes

NEW ORLEANS – Some of the oldest daguerreotypes and photographs of U.S. landscapes are about to go on display in New Orleans, as part of the first exhibit and study of such landscapes made e...

DATE: Sep 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

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