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Here are Profiles of Three Iconoclasts in Travel, Each of Whom has Followed Their Heart to Produce Unusual Travel Discussions

Travel-writing attracts strong-willed people.  To cut yourself off from familiar surroundings, to spend months on end in foreign settings, to encounter lifestyles, ideologies,…

The National Park System Finally Gets a Leader

Finally, on September 24, the U.S. Senate confirmed Jon Javis as director of the National Park Service. His nomination had been in limbo while two members of Congress went on a…

Falling for Aswan, Egypt's Original Frontier

Aswan has been called "the most beautiful place on earth" by enough people I've met that I approached it with some skepticism, figuring that any nice oasis must look like heaven if…