No matter where you get your information on travel, you have surely been bombarded with “tips” that you need to buy travel insurance. Maybe yes, maybe no. What you should do for sure is review your plans carefully to see whether you need travel insurance, and if you do, figure out exactly what you need—what…
Dublin’s Urban Thrills
While many big cities are notoriously cold and unfriendly, Ireland’s capital is an urban playground where people really consider strangers just “friends who’ve yet to meet.” And Dublin offers the best (and many would say only) urban thrills in the Republic of Ireland. Here are a few of my favorite things to do in Ireland’s…
House Financial Services Committee to Hold Hearing on Chinese Regime’s Economic and Geopolitical Threat
February 7, 2023
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As the world’s attention shifts heavily to Beijing’s role in the world in the aftermath of the shootdown of its spy balloon over U.S. territory on Feb. 4, a special hearing of the House Financial Services Committee will address subversion and aggression emanating from communist-ruled China and consider legislative proposals to counter these threats. A…
Endangered Sumatran Tiger Moves Into Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
By Dewayne Bevil From South Florida Sun Sentinel Busch Gardens Tampa Bay is now home to Bandar, a critically endangered Sumatran tiger. Theme park visitors can see the new resident in the Jungala area of the attraction. Bandar, a 9-year-old male, was transferred from Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington. The move is…
The ‘Forgotten Land’ of Laos: The Mysterious Plain of Jars
Laos became known as the “Forgotten Land” in the years following the Vietnam War. Located between its more popular neighbors—Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia—Laos has been relatively isolated from the West since the war ended and the communist Pathet Lao government took over in 1975. However, the past decade has seen Laos open up to visitors,…
In the Steps of Explorers: Finding Antarctica
I have never been to the moon, or any other planet beyond, of course, Earth. But I do know what it’s like to land on terra incognito, and enter a landscape that is—literally, mostly—unknown. To be surrounded by the alien. When you steam south from Ushuaia, as most Antarctica-bound ships do, you have no idea,…
Finding the Line in Ecuador
It can be a bit difficult, searching for something that’s invisible—but that was the mission, today. Heading north out of the capital, Quito, the grind and gridlock of the city quickly fell away. The highway was busy, and a bit gritty, with big diesel trucks carrying their cargo across the country. But it was rather…
Finding Panamá City’s Coolest Neighborhoods
Seen from the sea, this Latin American city glitters, its wall of white towers shimmering as they rise, Miami-style, over the blue waters of the Pacific. Getting closer, you can feel the heat of it all, a capital city in the heart of the Americas that pulsates with the rhythms of the two continents it…
City of Fire and Passion: Discovering Quito
Quito isn’t a city that hides its passions. Start with the geography, alone. Set high in the mountains, at a (literally) breathtaking altitude of 9,350 feet, it is set between steep hills on one side and the western edge of the Andes on the other. Long and narrow, the city’s dense network of streets and…
Kalispell, Montana: Winter’s Jumping-Off Point
“There are mountains,” I was assured as my first day in Kalispell, Montana, and the Flathead Valley dawned so gray it felt like a wintry blanket had been pulled over it. I would obviously have to wait for the great peaks and the multitude of wilderness activities the region promised to reveal themselves. Over the…
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