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An online travel guide, The Traveler's Journal is an ever-growing collection of free "audio postcards" from around the wide world of travel. Heard for more than a decade on public radio stations across the country, daily, 2-minute Traveler's Journal episodes will transport you to destinations near and far, provide helpful travel tips, help you get more enjoyment from your traveling, squeeze more miles from your traveling budget, and to come home healthy and happy. Visit our Bookshelf section for recommended travel books and travel guidebooks.
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Featured Travel Articles
The Traveler's Journal travel articles are written and hosted by David Bear, travel editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. [Read More About Us]. Bear's columns and articles appear regularly in numerous newspapers across North America. You can access more than 500 of these travel articles by scrolling these lists or using the search function to the left. Find useful travel tips, recommedations on useful travel guidebooks and travel resources, or learn more about our travel podcasts.
04-13-2008
From Viking origins to cosmopolitan crowds, Oslo celebrates humanity
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A Shropshire sojourn
03-31-2008
To our left, a pair of perfect parabolas arched across the broad green fields, iridescent croquet hoops complete end to end with six bands of color from violet to red.
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St. Maarten blessed with serene beaches
03-09-2008
Beach side resort gives whole new meaning to the notion of an airport hotel.
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Adventurer with purpose
02-19-2008
When it comes to appreciating the higher purposes of adventure travel, communicating them to a broad audience and then transforming that interest into action, Richard Bangs has been and continues to be a world-class practitioner.
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Casual Anguilla harbors miles of superb beaches
02-03-2008
On Anguilla, they do things differently.
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We must act now to save U.S. train transportation from extinction
01-20-2008
After a half a century of cutthroat competition from the country's highways and skyways, disregard from the federal government and disdain of the traveling public, the U.S. intercity passenger railway system is in tatters.
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THE MASSAHATTAN SNAP TUBE
10-18-2007
HERE"S SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1976, this short story is clearly fiction, but 40 years later, it still rings ironically true.
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Taking orchids to Jan Mayen:
09-23-2007
An Arctic expeditionary adventure cruising the sea of the midnight sun
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Two high points of Chicago
07-01-2007
Any city would be fortunate to have a single world class vantage point to offer; but Chicago boasts two, the Sear's Tower and John Hancock Center
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Winging it: Soaring on a glider plane gives a bird's-eye view and experience
04-24-2005
The uplands of Central Pennsylvania have become a mecca for glider pilots
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Skaters warm up to Ottawa's 5-mile-long rink
02-22-2004
This article was a winner in the 2005 Canadian Lights awards for travel
writing about Canada
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Channel Surfing
07-08-2001
Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, Herm and Alderney, these islands that bristle out of the English Channel off the coast of Normandy like epaulets on France's Atlantic shoulder, are certainly a place apart.
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A great New experience, by Gauley
06-04-2000
"Grand Canyon of the East' provides a natural high in West Virginia
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CROSSING ALDER CREEK
08-02-1998
THREE HIKERS ENCOUNTER NATURE'S POWER IN THE DOLLY SODS OF EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA
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Featured Travel Releases
Hotels, airlines, cruise companies, travel agencies, tour operators, adventure travel outfitters, local visitor and convention bureaus, state and national tourism offices all regularly release press information meant to promote themselves to the traveling public. Updates about big changes, travel guidebooks, travel books, special travel events, travel tips, exotic trips, and everyday bargains, it is indeed news you can use.
This selection of press release information is provided by the travel supplier involved and/or its public relations representative. You can scroll through these lists (live link to press release page) or use the search box to the left. These releases are presented here as a service to the public, and The Traveler's Journal accepts no responsibility for the accuracy or validity of any information, prices or other material in this section.
05-17-2008
$200 Resort Credit & 20% Discount on Golf, Spa & More
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Enjoy the Patriotic Splendor and Commemorate Memorial Day
05-17-2008
Fanfare at the North East Ohio Salvation Army Brass Band Concert in Lakeside
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PICNIC IN THE PARK WITH CARLTON & COUNTRY
05-17-2008
Stay Over & Take Out at One of Manhattan’s Hotel Gems
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Tips for Travel with Kids
05-17-2008
Orlando and Vegas Still Top Destinations
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Mountain Travel Sobek
05-17-2008
Walk Among the Wild: Wildlife Adventures
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Sri Lanka Calling
05-17-2008
Sri Lanka’s most treasured festival will commence on the 19th of May
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Sunrise Springs Resort Spa, Santa Fe, NM
05-17-2008
Award-Winning Chef Eric Laslow Brings Rich Culinary Heritage to Sunrise Springs Resort Spa
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Where To Go Next for Friday, May 16
05-17-2008
Foods, Recipes & Travel
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eTurboNews
05-17-2008
Malaysian Airlines: Its War!
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CARNIVAL EXPANDS ALASKA SHORE EXCURSIONS WITH A NUMBER OF NEW TOURS FOR EXPLORING THE ‘LAST FRONTIER’
05-17-2008
Adventures include eco-friendly options and a ‘Deadliest Catch’ tour
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