Baja’s quiet gem

You’ll have room to revel in Loreto’s beauty, history and beaches

Skiing on a patch of snow in China’s desert

Editor’s note: David Scott, a 2008 Durango High School graduate, is teaching English in China’s far western province of Xinjiang (New Frontier) in the city of Korla. He will be writing about...

Vacation cooking requires planning

FORT COLLINS – It can be a recipe for disaster: renting a vacation house with friends without talking about meal planning. There are obvious topics, like allergies, budgeting, fin...

What to do when stomach flu takes over cruise ship?

What’s worse than being stricken with stomach flu on vacation? Maybe it’s being quarantined on a cruise ship with hundreds of other passengers suffering from the same illness. Tha...

Charting a new course

In La Paz, reconfigured crew repairs boat to chase the dream

Where heroes worked

DALLAS – From a fairy tale-inspiring castle in the Bavarian Alps to a serene sculpture of Mary and Jesus by Michelangelo tucked away in a Belgian church, sites and works of art across Europe...

Travel industry’s time-outs can shut you out of a ticket

A casual observer might have thought that Anthony LaMesa was booking a last-minute JetBlue Airways ticket from New York to Cancun, Mexico, on a whim, perhaps to escape the frigid winter weat...

It’s easy for your credit card to be compromised

A day after Sheilah Reardon checked into the Bellagio Las Vegas, she received an email alert from American Express warning that her credit card had been compromised. Among the fraudulent cha...

Behind Olympic facades, a crumbling city

SOCHI, Russia – A shining new $635 million highway on the outskirts of Sochi stands next to a crumbling apartment block with a red “SOS!” banner on its roof. The residents of 5a A...

Sochi: A city of contrasts

From palms trees, to snow, to the Winter Olympics

Building winter

Elaborate ice castles draw tourists in Breckenridge, Utah and N.H.

Far from home, holidays bring unexpected delights

It finally happened. The unthinkable. The most dangerous and yet unavoidable problem in any long journey. Christmas came, and we got homesick. But this time, going home was not an option. We...