Salon Travel

Arts & Entertainment
Books
Comics
Health & Body
Media
Mothers Who Think
News
People
Technology
Travel
_______
Columnists

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Search Salon

Advanced Search | Help

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Table Talk
[Salon's freewheeling discussion area]

Does your town have a "Left Bank?" In search of safe (and cheap) havens for creative types.
Butte-iful Montana Postcards from God's country.
Yes, Siam! Thai-ing one on in Bangkok.

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Special Guest
[In Table Talk]

Baghdad by the Bay, the Beats and beyond Talk to "Access San Francisco" author Donna Peck all this week.
+ Table Talk
+ Posts of the week

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Travel Services

+ Travel bargains
+ Low Airfares
+ Hotel guide
+ Book your trip
+ Information by region
+ Articles by region

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Out of the Blue

Flying in the age of air rage When pilots are stabbed to death and flight attendants are taken to the hospital in ambulances, the skies are out of control.
By Elliott Neal Hester
[09/07/99]
- - - - - - - - - - - -

Book Bag
[Don George on the best in travel writing]
Writers we love: Tim Cahill As adventurous stylistically as physically, this writer-explorer takes us places we've never dared to go.
[08/15/99]

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Vagabonding

Retch-22: Laos in the time of cholera The official analysis was "diarrhea, with vomiting." Right.
By Rolf Potts
[08/24/99]
- - - - - - - - - - - -

Travel Advisor

Off-season Europe Our travel expert gets readers to the heart of off-season Europe, finds the perfect Fallingwater stay and directs scuba divers to some great spots outside the United States.
By Donald D. Groff
[09/09/99]
- - - - - - - - - - - -
Travel
by e-mail
Sign up here to receive our weekly e-mail newsletter listing recent and upcoming articles and events in Travel.

Unsubscribe

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Weekend, Sept. 11-12, 1999

Borneo to be wild What ever made me think I could climb Malaysia's Mount Kinabalu?
By Jame DiBiasio [09/11/99]

Elsewhere in Salon today

Appreciation: Leo Castelli A legendary figure in the American art world, he was also a literary, mercantile, polyglot, Jewish, Italian, Austro-Hungarian banker, lawyer and veteran of the OSS, who was always in the right place at the right time.
By Tom DiEgidio [ People - 09/11/99 ]

Editor's Pick

Conquering Half Dome -- and the fear of falling When a simple hike turns into a paralyzing ascent, a father has to overcome his terror.
By Don George [07/31/99]
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Recently in Salon Travel
Miami thighs Ready or not, big booty rules in Florida's tropical mecca.
By Joann Biondi [09/10/99]
Off-season Europe Our travel expert gets readers to the heart of off-season Europe, finds the perfect Fallingwater stay and directs scuba divers to some great spots outside the United States.
By Donald D. Groff [09/09/99]
The past recaptured Feasting in a temple of traditional gastronomy in rural France.
By David Downie [09/08/99]
Flying in the age of air rage When pilots are stabbed to death and flight attendants are taken to the hospital in ambulances, the skies are out of control.
By Elliott Neal Hester [09/07/99]
Tempests in a Thai-pot Despite sex scandals and overspeculation, Bangkok residents still find reasons to smile.
By Morris Dye [09/04/99]
Belize in the dark We take to the dark so that we may buy some time in the light: a creep with a hooker, a journalist with his notes.
By Michael Perry [09/03/99]
Revisiting "Thelma and Louise" Our travel expert offers advice on spotting the filmic outlaws' relics in Utah, getting in position for the next solar eclipse and learning about those European B&Bs.;
By Donald D. Groff [09/02/99]
Caught in the crossfire Is Beirut ready for tourism? Two journalists hit the ground in Lebanon to find out.
By Jessie Deeter and Anne Senges [09/01/99]
The carousels of Paris Long before Disneyland opened on its outskirts, the French capital gave children their own moveable feast.
By Susan Hack [08/31/99]
Sacred places: England before the fall A lifelong traveler reflects on his own piece of heaven, the home we always long to flee.
By Pico Iyer [08/28/99]
The gift of touch on an Indian bus A lonely traveler is saved by the kindness of strangers.
By Angela Collins [08/27/99]
Browse the Salon Travel archives

Elsewhere on the Web
From The World Heritage List
Heritage
Peruse the 582 properties that the World Heritage Committee inscribed on the World Heritage List.

From Slate
Guidebooks
Slate reviews travel guidebooks by Fodor's, Frommer's, Lonely Planet and Access Guides.

From Traveldog.com
Dog
Tips to make traveling with your pooch less ruff.

From Journeywoman
Jet lag
Melatonin vs. jet lag: The Journey Doctor puts her money on the pill.

In partnership with MSN Expedia.
Win a trip to London!

- - - - - - - - - - - -
VISA
The Preferred Card of Salon.com

- - - - - - - - - - - -

- - - - - - - - - - - -
Salon and
Click here to check out our new performing arts ticketing and information service.

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Salon.com Shopping
Salon Shopping
Summer blowout - everything's on sale!
+ Everything's on sale in Salon.com Shopping!

- - - - - - - - - - - -

+ Low Airfares

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Membership
Not a Salon.com member? Join now.

- - - - - - - - - - - -

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Partnerships
Click here for what's up and what's down with TheStreet.com's daily market news
Keep up with Salon.com's book reviews with free Rocket eBook downloads
Check out the latest titles from Salon.com's publisher partnerships
- - - - - - - - - - - -

Promotions

You could win an Intel � Pentium � III Processor-Based PC and more! Enter our "Last Summer of the Millenium" contest.
Win a trip to the IFP Gotham Awards in New York!

+ Full list of promotions
+ Recent winners

Also:
Buy the books Salon reviews in the Salon.com Bookstore

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Save up to 40 percent at BARNES & NOBLE

Search by:

Find books up to 40 percent off!
Travel Guides
Bestsellers
Find Out-of-Print Books
Year 2000 Guidebooks
- - - - - - - - - - - -

Reprints
Interested in reprinting our wealth of intriguing Travel articles?

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Ad Campaign

Did we make you think?

- - - - - - - - - - - -

[ Bookmark/Favorites: http://www.salon.com/travel/ ]