Mark your calendars! There will be a rare solar eclipse on April 8. People plan to travel to see the moon’s shadow totally block out the sun — for less than five minutes in the afternoon. In the U.S., the path of the eclipse will run in an arc from southwest Texas to northern Maine. […]
Whenever I’m in Santiago de Compostela, in the northwest corner of Spain, I have a three-part agenda: See pilgrims reach their goal in front of the cathedral, explore the market, and buy some barnacles in the seafood section – then have them cooked for me, on the spot, in a café. I make a point to be on the town square facing the towering Cathedral of St. James at around 11 in the morning. That’s when scores of well-worn pilgrims begin gathering for the daily Pilgrim’s Mass, a triumphant celebration marking their completion of the Camino de Santiago (the Way […]
Tourists and locals alike found themselves stranded overnight in Big Sur on Easter weekend after the California Department of Transportation shut down a portion of Highway 1 that was falling into the ocean.
I arrived in Tangier after a quick ferry ride from Tarifa, on the southern coast of Spain. Though it’s just a 35-minute boat ride away, Tangier feels a world apart from Europe.
Maine’s largest airport is now home to the second largest piece of the moon on Earth, according to moon rock enthusiasts who installed the extraterrestrial chunk.
Where else would Hans Christian Andersen, a mermaid statue, and lovingly decorated open-face sandwiches be the icons of a major capital?
For Adrian Sutherland, touring gave him an eye-opening opportunity to experience life outside of his Cree community.
Aiming for the heart of the Alps, I catch my train from the belle epoche resort town of Interlaken down a long, lush valley that leads south to the snowy tips of the Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau.
For “Quantum Leap” star Raymond Lee, acting came about in a circuitous way.
In Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana, communities with Amish families approach tourism with varying degrees of interest, creativity and commercialism.