Souvenir stems from the French verb to remember, which is exactly what I do...
I was wandering around Mocagua, one of many Indigenous villages on Colombia’s Amazon River,...
My first years of public education, in the 1960s, were at all-white elementary schools...
I was in the Italian village of my dreams, and yet I couldn’t sleep....
The sky was a striking blue and the air was hot and dry as...
Have you ever gone on vacation but, when you get there, find yourself following...
I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to The Henry Ford, a 250-acre complex in...
I used to associate bobbleheads with those figures I saw as a child in...
Most of Japan’s history–skirmishes and wars between feudal lords, legends surrounding ancestors of the...
Every city changes with the passage of time, but it’s hard to imagine a...
There’s never been an Olympics like this one. Delayed a year because of the...
If you were Black living in Tulsa 100 years ago, chances are you lived...
I suppose every town has its well-known eccentrics, but few leave a legacy more...
One of the most striking features of George Washington’s Mount Vernon is its grand...
It was to be our one big splurge, a beach getaway from our...
Travel around the globe necessarily ground to a stop with the onslaught...
Porto is Portugal’s portal to port wine. It also has one of the most...
I don’t know how many times I’ve returned to Kakunodate over the past...
Every morning I read the horoscope in my local newspaper just for kicks, but...
For traveling junkies, staying put during the COVID-19 outbreak can be a real...
As a travel writer specializing in Japan, I know I can never match the...
I’ve always wondered what it must be like to live in a town overrun...
