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Gilbraltar's history full of mystery
We'd been in Gibraltar four hours and had yet to find anyone who could shed some light on Winston Churchill's secret monkey plan. Or maybe they just...
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Why Mumbai is India's maximum city
In the days when travelers entered port cities by sea, Mumbai must have presented a handsome prospect. It still does, with the signature Gateway of India...
Recalling Pony Express, 150 years later
The Historical Landmark sign along Highway 50 isn't promising - bent, faded, defaced with graffiti - and most folks drive on by. With a half-dead horse...
Big changes are in store across pond
No one is saying getting to Europe is going to be easy. The airlines, striking workers, the economic meltdown and, now, Mother Nature and her volcanic...
Changes in Europe: Annual updates of Continental-style intel
Eastern Europe -- Prague , the most-visited city in the region, is nearing completion on the first phrase of the restoration of its iconic Charles Bridge ...
Making the most of Las Vegas spas
No one goes to Las Vegas to relax. Unwind? Maybe. But when it comes to the city of neon and nonstop frenzy, most people imagine themselves at the craps...
Calakmul offers glimpse of ancient Maya history
"Just so you know up front, I'm not climbing all the way to the top." It was late on a warm, humid Yucatan day, and I'd pretty well drained my tank...
What's the story on Santa Fe?
The plain white wooden door in an orange adobe wall leads to a souvenir store, as they tend to do in Santa Fe, N.M. But this particular door at 109 East...
In Bay of Fundy, the tides they are a-changin'
If Moses drove a late-model Dodge Caravan, he'd know exactly what we're going through. We're driving as fast as we dare across the temporarily dry seabed...
Freighter cruise: The lady is a tramp
Between the angry waves outside turning the portholes into front-loading Maytag washers, and the chief steward inside standing at an angle that should...
Lisbon: Immovable city now irresistible force
It is the first day of my first visit to Lisbon, and it is a busy one. I spend the morning checking out the new Museum of Design and Fashion, sip coffee...
Surviving last-minute trips overseas
Say your Aunt Millicent in London dies on Monday and you have to be there for the funeral by Thursday. Or your boss tells you he's sending you on urgent...
Updated Shanghai ready to welcome the world
Walking beneath Gordian-knot tangles of drooping overhead wires, past apartment windows draped with laundry, I enter a 1920s building and wedge myself...
With Games gone, Whistler's fun just beginning
Sure, watching the Winter Olympics was fun, but you probably can't ski 100 mph or do a double back flip in the half-pipe, and you probably have little...
Maui eating places the tourists often overlook
"Don't ask," says Bonnie Friedman. "Just taste it." We're standing in the parking lot of a mom-and-pop store, far from the sun-kissed beaches and resorts...
Giants, A's spring training: 3 hikes
"Don't tell people about this place," said Claude the Water Guy. Near the top of Camelback Mountain's bustling Summit Trail, just bunting distance from...
Fort Lauderdale: Beyond the breakers
Feel free to blame Connie Francis. In 1960, the singer starred in (and crooned the memorable theme song for) MGM's "Where the Boys Are," the sole topic of...
Sea-to-Sky Highway to Whistler
Mud-spattered, armor-clad warriors hunch on the steps of the village walkway, sweating after a day of doing battle with the rocks and roots of British...
So you want to go to the North Pole?
Dangling my legs off a 6-foot-thick ice floe, I slide into slushy water. My "swimsuit" ain't no polka-dotted bikini, but a screaming red one-piece...
Oaxaca percolates with culture - for kids
Never before had I been so thankful for the ancient Chinese chemist who invented gunpowder. Near the heart of Oaxaca, the 8-year-old twins with us were...
Doing Palm Springs Sinatra's way
It's OK for a newspaperman to go looking around Palm Springs for Frank Sinatra these days, as Mr. Sinatra is no longer in a position to get sore about it...
This theme park is worth sea-ing
Climbing the switchback passenger ramps up the side of Earth's largest passenger ship, ascending toward an opening halfway up the 16-story white wall of a...
Travel's weird and wild 2009
There were plenty of good reasons to stay home in 2009, and by that we don't mean the bad economy, skyrocketing air fares or terrorism fears. Here's a...
Annual geography quiz
Sorry, Ambrose, I think you got this one wrong. A century ago, Ambrose Bierce, the notorious San Francisco critic and satirist, famously wrote: "War is...
CityCenter gives Las Vegas a huge twist
How is it that the largest project in Las Vegas' history of opulent excess could feel, well, intimate? Instead of a lobby the size of two football fields...
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