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COMB RIDGE, Utah - Exploring the Southwest on foot and with burros in the early 1930s, 20-year-old vagabond artist Everett Ruess wrote, "I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. ......
DATE: May 10, 2009 | CATEGORY: Travel
Are tourists destroying tourism?The ones Bob Menconi saw on the lido deck of the Celebrity Solstice were - one heaping plateful at a time.At the megaship's all-you-can-eat buffet lunch, they piled...
DATE: May 3, 2009 | CATEGORY: Travel
NAZARETH, Israel - When Pope Benedict XVI pays a visit this month to the town where Jesus grew up, he will bring brief attention to a Holy Land destination that is at once world-famous and unjustly...
DATE: May 3, 2009 | CATEGORY: Travel
Editor's note: The Herald is running a series of GeoQuizzes written by students in Durango High School teacher Kurt Zeiner's geography class. For a class project, Zeiner had students gather into...
DATE: May 3, 2009 | CATEGORY: Travel
Answers to the GeoQuiz from Page 12C:1. Fort Lauderdale. Major William Lauderdale commanded the soldiers who built the first fort.2. Lake Powell3. Puerto Penasco4. Cancun5. San Diego6. Cabo San...
DATE: March 15, 2009 | CATEGORY: Travel
Editor's note: The Herald is running a series of GeoQuizzes written by students in Durango High School teacher Kurt Zeiner's geography class. For a class project, Zeiner had students gather into...
DATE: March 15, 2009 | CATEGORY: Travel
Green travel is dead.I arrived at this unlikely conclusion while talking with Mike Ragsdale, the "town evangelist" for a seaside community in northwest Florida called Alys Beach."People think being...
DATE: Feb. 15, 2009 | CATEGORY: Travel
The letdown is palpable.Every year since 1999, five times a year, the U.S. Mint has issued a new state quarter.Until last month.You see, 10 years x 5 states per year = 50, and we are therefore out...
DATE: Feb. 15, 2009 | CATEGORY: Travel
LAKE CITY - This month, 135 years ago, began the six-week ordeal in which starving and disoriented Alferd E. Packer stopped eating wild rose petals. Instead, trapped in the deep snows of the San...
DATE: Feb. 8, 2009 | CATEGORY: Travel
LES EYZIES DE TAC, France - The 12 of us who are gathered together in front of the entrance to the Font de Gaume cave to meet our English-speaking guide whisper together anxiously. It will be a...
DATE: Feb. 1, 2009 | CATEGORY: Travel
So, we've come to the annual convergence of Snowdown and the Super Bowl.All the excitement and pageantry of a Durango winter is boiled into one weekend in late January and/or early...
DATE: Feb. 1, 2009 | CATEGORY: Travel
Q: I have a question about travel insurance that I bought online when I booked airline tickets. Actually, I didn't mean to buy the insurance. I was on the Frontier Airlines Web site, and there was...
DATE: Jan. 18, 2009 | CATEGORY: Travel
