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‘Star Wars’ fans explore Tunisia’s remote, peculiar desert

MATMATA, Tunisia – There’s a reason the original “Star Wars” movie was filmed here in the deserts of southern Tunisia. This stark, remote landscape looks like another planet. One ...

DATE: Apr 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

New lynching memorial evokes terror of victims

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Visitors to the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice first glimpse them, eerily, in the distance: Brown rectangular slabs, 800 in all, inscribed with the names of m...

DATE: Apr 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

RFK funeral train photo exhibit: Kennedy’s final journey

SAN FRANCISCO – The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 50 years ago this June fractured the nation just two months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and five years afte...

DATE: Apr 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Hiking the authentic Great Wall of China, without the crush

Tires crunch the gravel as our driver turns around and makes his way back down the narrow access road, leaving my fiance, his mother and I alone in front of an empty building. The air is coo...

DATE: Apr 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Savoring the ambiance of village life in northern Spain

Spring break here in Valencia is the first week in April, so our family decided to take the opportunity to visit northern Spain. We based ourselves in the little town of Villavic...

DATE: Apr 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: An American in Spain

Travelers have plenty of reservations about hotels

Of all the hotel annoyances, the one that bothers Louise Sattler the most is the smells. “Scents,” she says, “and smoking in hotel rooms.” Sattler, a psychologist from ...

DATE: Apr 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Crews with seeds, corals restore broken environment in Puerto Rico

A long road back from Hurricaine Maria

DATE: Apr 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Wine and waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge

HOOD RIVER, Ore. (AP) – The Columbia River Gorge is a marvel of nature known for spectacular waterfalls, scenery and hiking. But it’s also famous in the world of wine. The region’...

DATE: Apr 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Nepal honors 1st conquest of Everest without bottled oxygen

KATHMANDU, Nepal – Nepal’s government on Thursday honored two climbers who were the first to scale Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen 40 years ago. Minister for Tourism Ra...

DATE: Apr 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

North Dakota tries to establish Theodore Roosevelt library

BISMARCK, N.D. – When Theodore Roosevelt came to Dakota Territory in 1883 to hunt bison, locals saw him as an Eastern tenderfoot with no clue on handling the hardships of frontier life. He t...

DATE: Apr 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Icons of American West on display in new museum – in Florida

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – When you think of Florida, the colored stone walls of the Grand Canyon don’t come to mind. Neither do cowboys, wolves or Native American silver-and-turquoise jewelry. ...

DATE: Apr 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Former U2 stage to be centerpiece of Utah aquarium expansion

SALT LAKE CITY – It toured the world for two years with rock behemoths U2, towering above the band through 30 countries and before a combined audience of 7.2 million people. But s...

DATE: Apr 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel