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Literary enclave grows in Maine

Rain lashed the pine boughs outside Jonathan Lethem’s summer home in East Blue Hill, Maine, in June as…

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The frugal traveler: Spend $100 for a $1,000 day trip in Hong Kong

The document in my email, set on elegant Four Seasons Hotel letterhead, was titled “One Perfect Day in…

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Why Mongolia should be on your rustic bucket list

KARAKORUM, Mongolia — Afew weeks ago, I was bouncing down a bumpy Mongolian highway, seated in a Russian-made…

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Old Sacramento tours sink to underground history

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The sun doesn’t shine here, but it used to. A path made of old, cracking…

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Get away to Los Alamos in Santa Barbara’s wine country

In the heart of Santa Barbara’s wine country, the California town of Los Alamos is slow to awaken…

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Fancy to frugal: A lodging guide for the Oregon Coast

To mark the state’s 1959 centennial, Oregon issued auto license plates bearing the motto “Pacific Wonderland,” and justifiably…

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Railroad buffs still make tracks to Strasburg

STRASBURG, Pa. — Parents instinctively want to re-create their favorite childhood memories for their own children. When we…

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A hospitable journey through mystical Istanbul

ISTANBUL — As we land over the Sea of Marmara, a gray drizzle bathes the view of huddled…

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A dozen delights far beyond golf in Scotland

EDINBURGH, Scotland — I am not what you would call an unprepared traveler. I scour guidebooks, investigate websites,…

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Take a deeper look at Iceland through the Thrihnukagigur volcano

It was a small five-passenger elevator, the sort of open-scaffold, spool-cabled rig that lowers professional window washers down…

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