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50 best US presidential sites
01 February 2012
Presidents’ Day: that strategic February Monday holiday in the US that’s situated at arm’s length between George Washington’s birthday (February...
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Twilight tourism in the Pacific Northwest
10 October 2011
The town was quiet. Tour buses with curly, girly lettering on the side advertising Twilight tours were parked, idle and...
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Fangtastic! The world’s best vampire-spotting locations.
09 August 2011
Vampires and their stories seem to be enjoying an eternal renaissance in contemporary fiction and film. Anne Rice’s Interview with...
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Riding the rails: classic train journeys of the world
02 August 2011
Hand the porter your luggage, climb aboard and relive the golden days of railroading on these spectacular journeys.Copper Canyon Railway, MexicoThe...
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Beer, coffee, wine and spirits of the Pacific Northwest
05 April 2011
Pacific Northwesterners like to say that surviving the long, gray, rainy winters hinges on two things: beer and coffee. But...
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Loving the eccentric Pacific Northwest
01 April 2011
The USA’s Pacific Northwest is known for its magnificent landscape, its cities of progressive thought and innovation, its music and...
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Cruising Alaska: a starter guide
17 February 2011
While many independent travelers will find the strictures of ‘cruise life’ a bit stifling, there are plenty of reasons to...
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Seattle’s Fremont neighbourhood
20 January 2011
‘De Liberta Quirkas,’ meaning ‘Freedom to be Peculiar,’ is the Fremont neighbourhood motto. This declaration blazons a giant 1950’s cold...
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American pie: slicing across the country
24 November 2010
Pie is turning up all over the US, having reinvented itself from a dowdy church supper ware to a stylish...
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Cheese travel: tips from a cheesemonger
04 October 2010
Gordon Edgar is the cheese buyer for San Francisco’s famous Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, a store that is well-known by Bay...
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Lonely Planet’s top 10 USA fall trips
13 September 2010
Summertime weather is starting to give way to fall, but that doesn’t mean you have to shelve your road trips...
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Road trip rules for Labor Day weekend
31 August 2010
Labor Day in the US signals two major things – the last-bash of summer travel when, the AAA estimates,...
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Washington, DC: a user’s guide
20 August 2010
So you’re heading to DC? There’s so much more to see in the United States capital than the statue of...
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Five great German towns in the USA
18 May 2010
Germany! Oh Germany! If you can’t make it to Europe this year, but desperately need a lederhosen fix (sorry; it’s...
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Ice & fire: the Pacific Northwest's volcano trail
28 March 2010
Take the scenic route from Seattle to Portland and tiptoe around sleeping giants on this trip down the exquisite volcanic...
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