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Seeing Sicily through a wineglass: Family journey finds rich heritage on vine

By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, Chicago Tribune | Sep. 29 at 7:36 p.m.

The wine drinking began before we left Newark, N.J., with a clink and a “salud” in the airport lounge over some unidentified white.

Learning to love Disneyland again

By Jonathan Martin, Seattle Times | Sep. 14 at 11:14 p.m.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — As we walked across the broad, brick-paved plaza, a burst of music swelled, the strings rising to cinematic heights amid a pounding of kettle drums. A man in a crisp white shirt waved and beamed. Perfectly manicured flowers swayed in the breeze.

Experience grand vistas as Amtrak’s Empire Builder travels through Montana and the Rockies

By Ellen Creager, Detroit Free Press | Sep. 14 at 11:16 p.m.

NEAR WAGNER, Montana — The train rolls past distant hills — mountains, an easterner would call them. But it’s just a tease. Out here is mostly prairie and thin wire fences and undulating gray moguls of land, mysterious for what lies beneath, all dinosaur fossils and buffalo bones. The sky is huge and blue and endless. Here is where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid embarked on their last train robbery. Here is the middle of Montana. Here is the West.

Foreign correspondence: Mexico offers everything from pyramids and ecotourism to tequila

By John Bordsen, McClatchy Newspapers | Sep. 1 at 7:23 p.m.

What’s it like to live in a far-off place most of us see only on a vacation? Foreign Correspondence is an interview with someone who lives in a spot you may want to visit.

A genuinely ‘grand’ spot for beers

Sep. 1 at 7:20 p.m.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — What does the third-best beer bar in the world look like? It looks like a lot of other bars.

You just can’t rush through the colors of western Maine

By Josh Noel, Chicago Tribune | Sep. 1 at 7:21 p.m.

BETHEL, Maine — You know you’ve found a worthy fall colors spot when you plan to go far in a day but don’t go far at all.

If you haven’t visited lately, Oahu’s new vibe may surprise you

By George Hobica, Airfarewatchdog.com | Sep. 1 at 7:22 p.m.

I’ll state right away that Hawaii is one of my favorite places. I’m pretty much over the Caribbean, and although the Maldives and Fiji have beautiful beaches, getting there is expensive and time-consuming. So when it comes time for balmy weather, surf, sand, and relaxation, it’s the Hawaiian Islands.

San Diego’s North County more than just a pretty face

By Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times | Sep. 1 at 7:23 p.m.

SAN DIEGO — Maybe you’ve always suspected that there was more to San Diego’s North County than beach towns, rolling hills, expat giraffes and a walled kingdom of brightly colored plastic. But frankly, they had me at beach towns.

Caribbean mansion preserves 250-year-old way of life

By Bob Downing, Akron Beacon Journal | Sep. 1 at 7:24 p.m.

FREDERIKSTED, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands — The Estate Whim Museum provides a look at what life was like 250 years ago on a sugar-cane island.

Central Cabo San Lucas is where the people go to party

By Gary A. Warner, Orange County Register | August 25 at 10:21 p.m.

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico — Medano Beach is the waterside Times Square of Cabo San Lucas — a sandy, wet, crowded, noisy, naughty world of wall-to-wall suntan-oil-slathered flesh.

Easygoing, luxurious ‘Zona Turistica’ is far removed from raucous Cabo

By Gary A. Warner | August 25 at 10:22 p.m.

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico — There’s another side to Cabo San Lucas, where tequila is gold and not white and comes in short fluted glasses, not poured into your gullet by a funnel stuck in your mouth. A place where the food doesn’t come on the edge of a stick or wrapped in a tortilla. Behind the guard-shack-rimmed gates, the resorts north of Cabo San Lucas create their own little worlds, where you are encouraged never to leave — except perhaps for a round of golf.

Dipping into the pools of Berlin

By Rochelle Olson, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) | August 25 at 10:26 p.m.

BERLIN — The indelible image of the former East German Olympic female swimmer: big, burly and unbeatable.

Family-friendly Glacier Basin Trail is on Mount Rainier’s sunny side

By Tan Vinh | August 17 at 10:08 p.m.

MOUNT RAINIER, Wash. — It was cloudy and drizzling on other parts of Mount Rainier, but the world was all sunscreen and sunglasses from where I stood, on the east face of the mountain. Hikers were smearing sunscreen, some sporting shorts. I was squinting.

Hotel hopping in Chicago: Where to sleep on your next stop in the Windy City

By Claude Peck, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) | August 17 at 10:07 p.m.

CHICAGO — I grew up in Chicago and still go there often. But since I’m visiting my family, I rarely stay in hotels.

Birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll? Memphis has plenty of evidence in its favor

August 17 at 10:08 p.m.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — This port city on the Mississippi River calls itself the birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll. Its credentials? The Memphis Recording Service, forerunner of Sun Studio, in 1951 recorded “Rocket 88” by Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats, which some people say was the first rock ‘n’ roll record.

Only 3 days in Barcelona? Yes, it can be done

Los Angeles Times, By Kari Howard | July 31 at 6:35 p.m.

BARCELONA, Spain — In retrospect, traveling 6,000 miles to see a band does seem a bit … crazy. And maybe buying concert tickets for two nights in a row and then flying out at dawn the next day wasn’t the best idea. And, yes, it might have been unwise to spend only three (well, 2 1 / 2) days in beauty-crammed Barcelona, where even the sidewalks are works of art.

Deconstructing Norway: A tune for travel, on backroads and byways

By Anne Z. Cooke, McClatchy-Tribune News Service | July 31 at 6:31 p.m.

LILLEHAMMER, Norway — The visitors touring Maihaugen Heritage Village were itching with curiosity. They’d wandered the site’s narrow lanes and peered inside the 200-year-old log cabins. They’d explored the craft shops and traditional hand-hewn barns brought from far-flung farms and forests and reassembled here, under the trees. Now they wanted to know if any of Norway’s leading figures — statesmen, film makers, painters or artists — had their roots in these humble huts.

Enjoying the quieter side of Victoria, B.C., by foot and bike

By Kristin Jackson, Seattle Times | July 31 at 6:28 p.m.

VICTORIA, British Columbia — Victoria retains its compact, easygoing nature, with major sights clustered around downtown’s Inner Harbour. But I decided to explore the edges of the city — or at least as far as I could leisurely go on foot, bike and a shiny-red rented motor scooter.

Treasure hunters lured to tourist destinations with geocaching

By Johanna Somers, Seattle Times | Oct. 29 at 4:16 p.m.

SEATTLE — Historical sightseeing may never be the same again. Now parents can tell their children to bring their smartphones with them for a nature walk, and national parks may want tourists to leave something behind.

Kodachrome Basin State Park in Utah overshadowed by famous neighbors

By Bob Downing, Akron Beacon Journal | July 21 at 9:34 p.m.

CANNONVILLE, Utah — There’s a very colorful state park in southern Utah that gets overlooked, despite its distinctive rock chimneys from long-dead petrified geysers.

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