Category: Hotels and lodging
When you combine historic Quartz Mountain State Park (one of the original seven Oklahoma State Parks) with beautiful lodging and the option to do a whole bunch of activities …
College towns are fun places to visit; there is usually something interesting going on on campus (a performance, a sports event) and the neighborhood around campus reflects the energy, …
What sorts of places are real travel surprises for you? Which ones make you sit up and start waving your hands excitedly as you tell someone why they HAVE …
Backpacking around the US is not easy, to say the least. Public transportation is difficult, and there are very few hostels. Thankfully, Lolo Pass in Portland is a fantastic …
Every month or two we’ll get an invitation to participate in some affiliate program for a travel club, vacation club, or hotel club that supposedly gives vacationers access to …
While traveling around the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, I set out to find the best family-run boutique hotel in Merida, and I found it. The Merida Santiago Hotel Boutique …
Though I’ve only been back in the Southwest for a few months, I lived in Tucson for eight years as a graduate student and learned to get pretty creative …
What do you do about luggage storage when you need to dump your bags for hours? I spend about half my time traveling with a significant other or small …
I’ve never been into celebrating Valentine’s Day. The reason is less politically motivated (it’s just a Hallmark holiday! it leaves out people who aren’t in relationships! it only considers …
“You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas.” With that, frontiersman Davy Crockett harrumphed out of his native Tennessee, got involved with the Texas War …
I knew I should have left earlier. I knew it as soon as I pulled out of the driveway. The sun was already waning, and it wasn’t even 5 …
It’s hard to find a more perfect name than Solitude for a getaway resort. I was looking forward to speaking at a recent America Outdoors conference for outfitters, guides, …