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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.
From Viking origins to cosmopolitan crowds, Oslo celebrates humanity
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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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Beach side resort gives whole new meaning to the notion of an airport hotel.
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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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On Anguilla, they do things differently.
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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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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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An Arctic expeditionary adventure cruising the sea of the midnight sun
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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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The uplands of Central Pennsylvania have become a mecca for glider pilots
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This article was a winner in the 2005 Canadian Lights awards for travel
writing about Canada
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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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"Grand Canyon of the East' provides a natural high in West Virginia
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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.
$200 Resort Credit & 20% Discount on Golf, Spa & More
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Fanfare at the North East Ohio Salvation Army Brass Band Concert in Lakeside
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Stay Over & Take Out at One of Manhattan’s Hotel Gems
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Orlando and Vegas Still Top Destinations
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Walk Among the Wild: Wildlife Adventures
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Sri Lanka’s most treasured festival will commence on the 19th of May
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Award-Winning Chef Eric Laslow Brings Rich Culinary Heritage to Sunrise Springs Resort Spa
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Foods, Recipes & Travel
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Malaysian Airlines: Its War!
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Adventures include eco-friendly options and a ‘Deadliest Catch’ tour
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