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12 Thoughtful Gifts Every Traveler Needs for Comfort and Coziness

Anyone who travels will love to receive these favorites as go-to travel gifts!


12 Great Gifts for Literary Travelers

Here are some of my current favorites that the literary travel lovers in your life will love to receive as cherished gifts—whether featuring places they’ve been, adventures to come, or just dreaming of destinations unknown and things to do while adventuring.


10 Best Stocking Stuffers for Frequent Travelers

Here are some favorites anyone who travels frequently would be delighted to find in their stocking this holiday season—including me.


Find Out When You Get There: A One-Day Surprise Road Trip

“So, where are we going?” I asked my husband.

“You’ll see,” he slyly replied.

So began our surprise road trip adventure, sponsored by Guess Where Trips’ Tiny Towns Tours.

older senior couple in a car on a road trip

So Much Fun to Have in SoHo

SoHo shines as one of the Big Apple’s most trendy and diverse neighborhoods.


Travel Through Time at Three Los Angeles Museums

If you have ever wanted to go time-traveling, this is the moment and Los Angeles is the place. Within an easy stroll’s distance along Wilshire Boulevard it is possible to visit three museums that can transport you to the prehistoric past of woolly mammoths and saber-tooth tigers, then beam you to Hollywood’s vision of a digital dystopian future where cyborgs battle humans.

La Brea Tar Pits looks toward the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Photo courtesy of Jim Farber.

Discover Two Pasadena Art Treasures

Only two years separate the 1975 opening of Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum and the hillside campus of the ArtCenter College of Design in 1977. The Norton Simon is one of the most highly visible museums in the world since it shows up every New Year’s Day as the televised backdrop for the Tournament of Roses Parade. ArtCenter, on the other hand, designed by midcentury-modern architect Craig Ellwood, is a masterwork of elegance, form and function that is hidden away.

Robert Rauschenberg's neon "Green Shirt" is the star of "Plugged In: Art and Electric Light" currently on display at the Norton Simon Art Museum in Pasadena, California. Photo courtesy of Jim Farber.

Find More Than Baseball in Cooperstown, New York

After seeing more of Cooperstown, I concluded that an apt invitation for people to visit might be “Come for the baseball; stay for a lot more.”

Cooperstown, New York, home of the Baseball Hall of Fame, frequently turns up on lists of most-popular places to visit. Photo courtesy of This Is Cooperstown.

There’s So Much to Discover in Washington, D.C.

We were in Washington, D.C., for a special performance and wanted to take in as much as we could. Fortunately, there was plenty to do!


Cody, Wyoming Ice Fest Is a Chill of a Thrill

Welcome to Wyoming Ice Fest in Cody, Wyoming, founded three years ago by explorer and ice-climber Aaron Mulkey!


America’s Biggest Little Italy Is in San Diego

Of the umpteen Little Italies scattered throughout the United States, San Diego’s vibrant 48-square-block Italian neighborhood is the biggest in the nation.


Disabled Travelers Find Help on the Go

“Despite that challenge, she has been able to travel and participate in activities that in the past would have been beyond her capabilities.”


San Diego Exhibit Shines a Light on the Art of Disability

“For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability,” illuminates how artists respond to the experience of disability.


A Fan Finally Makes It to Cooperstown

It was an upcoming trip to Cooperstown, New York—home of the Baseball Hall of Fame—that took me decades back to that baseball-crazy little girl…


Good Eats in the Off-Season at Rehoboth Beach

The off-season proved to be one of the best times for a seaside culinary journey to Rehoboth Beach. “Beach food” took on a whole new meaning.


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