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Origin of Cereal: 76-Second Travel Show 6 Jul 2012 | 04:00 am
Nothing in the world is better than breakfast cereal. A couple months ago I was writing about the Kinks in my daily journal, and the subject led me in a long missive on cereal. Then I stopped to check...
58 Things You Should Know about the War of 1812 19 Jun 2012 | 06:34 am
Douglas Coupland's 1812 sculpture, Toronto ‘War of 1812’ would make a great name for a bulldog. They’re irrational creatures – with misshapen jaws and butts that make them look mean, and squashed tai...
BookPage Column 16 Jun 2012 | 04:36 am
Lonely Planet teamed up with BookPage, a monthly reader on books, for a column on travel books I get to write. It's available online, and distributed in print at Books-A-Million stores. Columns are fu...
In the Navy: Travels on the USS Fort McHenry 15 Jun 2012 | 04:51 am
I never considered going into the military but I've nevertheless saw the US Navy as my 'armed service of choice.' My dad served a couple years, and finished his tour of duty a few months after I was b...
TV: Summer travel tips on Weather Channel 30 May 2012 | 11:34 pm
Last week I spoke on the Weather Channel, daring the drizzle outside of 30 Rock. We discuss how gas prices are about 20 cents down from last year, European airfares are up, saving money on car-rental ...
Does posing for photos 'kill'? 30 May 2012 | 10:36 pm
Rolf Potts, travel writer and Kansan, wrote an interesting piece on how digital photography has changed travel for him (though I think he crossed a line by posting some very personal candid photos fro...
How 'travel' can fill news gaps 30 May 2012 | 04:18 am
A day at the Pensacola beach during the height of the oil spill Tourism in the Gulf Coast is soaring, again, two years after the BP oil spill sent four million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico....
Photos from a Philadelphia prison 29 May 2012 | 11:42 am
I go to a lot of museums. The biggies are great, but I tend to prefer the pleasures from bite-sized portions of more out-of-the-way, unexpected ones like Bucharest's National Museum of the Romanian Pe...
Top 50 Rolling Stones Songs 26 May 2012 | 03:23 am
So the Rolling Stones are 50 years old, some of them have been remarkably great years, though most mediocre. Still they are the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world for all time, for creating that b...
Why Cleveland Rocks 19 May 2012 | 12:58 am
Cleveland has the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame for a couple reasons. One, the term 'rock and roll' was first applied to music by DJ Alan Freed there (Record Rendezvous owner Leo Mintz had suggested it to ...
