Travel - The Durango Herald

Record number of climbers to attempt to scale Everest

KATHMANDU, Nepal – Sherpa guides struggled with high winds and snow Friday to prepare the final route to the top of Mount Everest, with a record number of climbers hoping to reach the summit...

DATE: May 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Found photos capture Charles Lindbergh before famous flight

SAN DIEGO – Photos tucked away for 90 years in a California newspaper’s archives portray Charles Lindbergh just weeks before he made the first-ever nonstop solo airplane flight across the At...

DATE: May 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

African-American museum is a hot ticket

New site in Washington, D.C., fills quickly every day

DATE: May 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Simple is best and other lessons from a road trip with kids

GETTYSBURG, Pa. Road trip season is around the corner. Does that fill you with memories of painful car trips stuck between siblings in the backseat? Or do you relish the idea of ...

DATE: May 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Not the Mile High Club: 1 in 10 travelers has sex in an airport, survey finds

Romance is in the air – and sometimes in the airport, according to an online flight-shopping service. About 1 in 10 American air travelers reports having had sex of some kind at a...

DATE: May 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Winter lingered in northern New England, and so will the mud

NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine – Spring is in the air. But mud is on the ground, and will be for a while. Mud season is an annual mucky rite of passage in the lives of northern New England...

DATE: May 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Tourism, technology threaten Icelandic language

English encroaches on unique dialect of Old Norse

DATE: Apr 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Fly-fishing in Cuba’s Bay of Pigs

Pristine water, family-run restaurants highlight trip

DATE: Apr 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Photo essay: Chernobyl’s ghost town draws daring visitors

PRIPYAT, Ukraine – A bulletin board in the Ukrainian town of Pripyat still bears an edition of the Sovietsky Patriot newspaper, dated three days before the nuclear explosion that turned the ...

DATE: Apr 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

A road trip along Ireland’s breathtaking west coast

Ireland, we decided: the west coast of Ireland. Offseason, when accommodations would be inexpensive. That’s how our party of three childhood friends found ourselves tooling along the Dingle ...

DATE: Apr 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

10 easy ways to reduce travel stress

The stress of travel is enough to make you wonder if the getaway is worth it. Alice Boyes, who travels about one week out of every month, knows how trying the process can be. “The...

DATE: Apr 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Hidden in plain sight: 10 unsung sites for art in the nation’s capital

Going to museums isn’t always easy in Washington. If you want to visit the African American Museum or find out what all the hype is about at the Hirshhorn’s Yayoi Kusama exhibition, you have...

DATE: Apr 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday