The Traveler's Journal

Founded in 1872, America's first national park is still wild and untamed at heart, offering a palette of unique and striking landscapes.

The US Park Service offers a range of inexpensive passes that provide unlimited access to American's national natural treasure houses.  All even offer a chance to stamp your passport.

The three miles long and half a mile wide, this tiny private island in the British Grenadines is the essence of understated Caribbean elegance.

For travelers in foreign places, more disconcerting than exotic entrees ordered inadvertently is the case of dysentery served on the side.

Automatic Teller Machines are the currency source of choice for people on the go, both in the US and overseas, but smart travelers know it's always wise to have other cash resources as a back-up.

Too often Africa is mis-perceived as a single, vaguely ominous entity.  The reality is that the continent is vast and varied, with more than 50 countries and hundreds of distinct cultures.

As life's pace quickens and the demands of daily schedules get too hectic, a new kind of leisure travel has emerged.  Call them fast-forward getaways.

This time of year, the lines are long at San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf for the ferry rides to Alcatraz and Angel Island.

Though great strides have been made in the decades since the Americans With Disabilities Act was passed, the notion of barrier free travel is still problematic.

"Leave it as you found it," is the basic tenet for the rules of the off-road. Here are some particulars.

Just south of where the Moselle River meets the Rhine at Koblenz is the mouth of another beautiful but less famous river, the Lahn.

When visiting the tropics. a traveler can do everything right and still get sick, or everything wrong and stay well. Still, we offer these thoughts on improving your odds.

News headlines always imply that foreign travel has become particularly dangerous.  State Department statistics suggest a more benign world view.

Be Aware of Hotel Theft Liabilities. Too many travelers are shocked when they discover how little responsibility the accommodations industry assume for theft of guests' valuables.

North Carolina's Piedmont country lies halfway between DC and Atlanta as well as the Atlantic and the Applaichians.  It's also home to three great universities.

Whether you're shooting with pixels or film, a flash can greatly improves the quality of your images, indoors or out, and in any kind of light.

We remember two of the most cataclysmic eruptions, Vesuvius and Krakatoa.

The Fall is usually a great season to find real bargains on Caribbean cruises, but this year, there's a bumper crop of possibilities.

US Highway 55, which carefully winds its way through southwestern Colorado's San Juan Mountains, is a drive to be savored, a gear-shifter's glory.

Moscow has had a major make-over in the decades since Soviet Rule ended, but many modern visitors come to appreciate the remaining and magnificent relics of the old order.