August 2002

STATE FAIRS EVERYWHERE
It's been 40 years since This month millions of Americans will flock to fair grounds to celebrate their state's agriculture and industry with a week or two of fun, friendly competition, and nearly non-stop excitement.
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TAKING PICTURES IN THE WOODS
Leave only footprints, take only memories: that's the wilderness watchword. Here's another for travelers whose wilderness memory-making involves a camera [Read More]

THE SEWERS OF PARIS
The sewers of Paris are a curious utilitarian network to which virtually every building in the city is connected. Twelve hundred miles of vaulted stone tunnels wind their way under the City of Lights. 
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MEANDERING IN MONET'S GARDEN
One fine morning in 1883, the French painter Claude Monet looked out of the window of a train and first beheld Giverny. [Read More]

REMEMBERING CHEROKEE RED CLAY
Before Europeans arrived in America, the Nation of Cherokee Indians was spread across the southeast Appalachian Mountains. [Read More]

DRUMMING FOR CHAMPIONS
With much fanfare, the 27th annual Summer Music Games start this afternoon at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin. It's the national championship of the Drum and Bugle Corps. [Read More]

STORM WARNINGS
Travelers who appreciate off-season bargains know that summer can be a good time to visit traditional warm weather destinations in the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America. [Read More]

LORD SHIVA'S HOLY CITY
The holy city of Varanasi, on the banks of India's River Ganges, has been a center of commerce and piety since before Babylon was built. [Read More]

SHOTS YOU'LL NEED TO TRAVEL
What vaccinations do you need to travel? The answer depends on where you're going and how long you'll be away. [Read More]

MALARIA UPDATE
Last time, we looked at preventative vaccinations travelers might need, depending on where they're headed. But there's still no shot against malaria. [Read More]

AMERICA'S STILL WILD RIVERS
Mind Bender, Scream Machine, Meat Grinder; it's no wonder white-water rapids get roller coaster names. Both offer body-bending contortions and death- defying thrills. [Read More]

AFLOAT ON THE SELWAY
Last time, we looked at five of North America's still untamed rivers. The Selway, called by many the wildest river in the lower 48 states, flows down from the Continental Divide, through the Bitterroot Mountain range of east-central Idaho. [Read More]

PORTMEIRION, WALES
In 1926, Sir Clough Williams- Ellis, a well-known Welsh architect, set out to create an ideal village on the shores of Tremadog Bay in northwest Wales. [Read More]

BRITAIN'S RAILWAY TREASURES
The British have long had a passion for trains. Their love affair started in 1825, when the world's first passenger railway began service between two towns in northeast England.
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THE PRICE OF A ROOM
Kids stay free." That's a familiar claim in hotel and motel ads, but what does it really mean? [Read More]

RAILS TO TRAILS
It will soon be possible to ride a bicycle the entire way from Washington D.C. to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania without traveling on a public road.
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LAPTOP TRAVEL TIPS
Some weeks ago, we reported on CD software that turns a laptop computer into a travel guidebook. That prompted Susan Parker, who hears us on WDUQ in Pittsburgh, to ask about limitations in carrying a laptop on a plane and using it en-flight or in the airport? [Read More]

MUD ISLAND IN MEMPHIS
The Mississippi River is arguably America's most important waterway. Over 2,500-miles long, the river and its four main tributaries, the Missouri, the Ohio, the Tennessee, and the Arkansas, drain water from 40 percent of the Continental U.S. [Read More]

CASTLES BY THE SEA
For sailors who navigate open water, landmarks along the shore take on a special meaning. All around Europe, where so much history has arrived by sea, one's first sight of land is often a fortress.
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JOHNSON SPACE CENTER
Visitors to Mission Control at NASA's huge Johnson Space Center near Houston are in for a hands-on, space age experience. [Read More]

 

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