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Living luxuriously at France’s skiing capital

The dining room is bright and quiet, the gray-uniformed servers moving with cultured efficiency among us. It is…

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Touring Tulum, the tranquil side of Mexico’s Riviera Maya

For the first half of my Mexican vacation, I never left a 1-mile radius. That’s why we go…

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Ashland’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival is one of a kind

ASHLAND — What is the magic of a small town in Southern Oregon that enables it to attract…

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Luxurious lodging and travel in Switzerland

As do many others, I have savored my travel firsts: There was the first time I saw the…

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Northwest Travel: New and old at Mount Hood

GOVERNMENT CAMP — There are three good-sized ski areas around the flank of Oregon’s highest peak, 11,245-foot Mount…

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Food and sipping tours make Maui a taster’s paradise

MAUI, Hawaii — Maria Sadusky, our 19-year-old tour guide from Delaware, frets about going home for a visit…

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TV host Darley Newman makes most of offbeat places

What’s it like to live in a far-off place most of us see only on a vacation? The…

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Driving ‘The Loneliest Road in America,’ with kids, no less

I had just crossed the state line into Nevada and crested a hill when I saw them —…

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Travel: Honolulu revisited

HONOLULU — It’s not as easy to get excited about a visit to Waikiki Beach today as it…

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Artist’s San Francisco home becomes work of art

SAN FRANCISCO — Art and life, often barely distinguishable among those who toil in the conceptual realm, meld…

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