Category: Travel

An expert road tripper, Laura Martone shares a list of important items to pack next time you hit the road.

Stuck at home in deep thundersnow? Google can help you break the monotony. Yesterday Google launched its new Art Project, which combines its Street View technology controls with inside views—literally—of 17 major art museums from around the world.

When searching for a tasty photo to accompany an article about South Carolina-style barbecue, our Marketing Technologies Director, Sarah Juckniess, was clueless. She knew enough about barbecue to identify a few famous regions and to be aware that there are specific, identifiable, controversial differences between them, but that's where she got a little fuzzy.

Searching for Petoskey stones (chunks of fossilized coral that are estimated to be more than 350 million years old) is a favored pastime for Lake Michigan residents and tourists alike. Laura Martone reflects on her own hunts for the stones and other treasures.

Like the Mojave, the Atacama desert has its share of ghost towns. Humberstone, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the remains of a sprawling company town that grew up in response to massive surface mining for nitrates.

Those intending to camp or travel by RV are well catered to in Alberta. From firewood availability to winter sites to a glossary of terms like "boondocking", learn more about camping in Alberta.

After touring Florida's Everglades via airboat, Laura Martone was cautioned about advertising such tours due to potential harm to endangered manatees. In this article, she explores the dangers airboats pose to manatees in the Everglades.

One of the highest and most powerful waterfalls in Chiapas and all of Mexico, Cascada El Chiflón tumbles 120 meters down a nearly vertical limestone cliff.

The sheer stone walls of Sumidero Canyon rise hundreds of meters—and in one spot a full kilometer—above the tranquil river below, an awe-inspiring channel that’s one of Chiapas’s most recognizable and impressive natural wonders.

Lagunas de Montebello National Park contains a striking array of lakes, lagoons, and ponds whose colors famously range from emerald green to pale blue, from deep purple to reddish black.

San Cristóbal de las Casas is a city of many layers, a place to delve into, not merely admire. It is first and foremost a wonderful old colonial town, easily one of Mexico’s finest.

When planning your trip to Nicaragua, consider timing your visit to coincide with one of the many celebrations and festivals. Conversely, you might want to avoid festivals and all the fireworks, drunken masses, altered transportation schedules, and spiked hotel prices that they bring. Here are a few times of the year when services are affected…