Locals in Santa Barbara Impress Visitors with a Tour of the County Courthouse
You have guests visiting from out of town. They’ve never been to your city. Where would you take them to make a good first impression? Read More
Category: Destination Finds
There are some corners of our world you are unlikely to discover in a guidebook. Once a traveler commits to exploring, discoveries are found in both famous locales and out of the way places. Here are a few of those destination based hidden travel gems.
Hermon Stream Nature Reserve is a Memorable Stop in Israel
From childhood, I dreamed of one day seeing Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Capernaum and the Sea of Galilee. Hermon Stream Nature Reserve never made my bucket list. Read More
House of Refuge Crews Stood Watch for Shipwrecked Sailors and Nazi Submarines
Imagine surviving the terror of shipwreck and valiantly washing ashore, only to face near-certain death along a coastline bereft of civilization and fraught with peril. Read More
Andy Griffith’s Fictional Rural Fishin’ Hole Actually Sits in the Geographic Center of Los Angeles
Want to find Andy Griffith’s fictional Myers Lake? Don’t go to rural North Carolina. Look in the Hollywood Hills, just east of swanky, exclusive Bel-Air. Read More
Yelapa: Here’s What Beach-side Mexican Towns Once Looked Like
Cancun was once a quiet Yucatan village. Midway through the last century, Puerto Vallarta was a place to catch fish. But Yelapa is still Yelapa. Read More
Nebraska’s Route 2 is Among America’s Least-Known Scenic Highways
The late, incomparable Charles Kuralt of CBS News “On the Road” fame once counted a lonely route in Nebraska among America’s 10 most beautiful highways. Read More
Looking for Flowering Gardens and the World’s Best Coffee? Head to the Mountains of Panama
At first glance, a location just north of the equator in Central America seems the unlikeliest of spots for finding flowering hillsides and comfortable temperatures. Read More
Budapest Remembers: Shoes on the Danube Bank
It started as a leisurely stroll along the Danube on a bright summer’s day in Budapest. The walk revealed the most poignant of Holocaust memorials. Read More
Michigan’s Ghost Town: Fayette in the Upper Peninsula
Ghost towns only are found in the Old West, right? This surprising travel find appears in Michigan, at an idle but once booming company town. Read More
Alpine Escape: Gmunden, Austria
At the end of a Danube cruise from Budapest to Linz, a free day on the itinerary reveals a surprising travel find. Welcome to Gmunden. Read More