The TRAVELER'S JOURNAL: October eighteenth, with adventures to 50 places/paradise unbound.

On several recent programs, we've highlighted the latest, special edition of the award-winning magazine, National Geographic Traveler, a supporter of our program. In brief but compelling portraits, notable authors and photographers honor 50 places that make America special. Consider the section, Paradise Found, ten retreats of the highest order.

Novelists see the world differently that reporters. Russell Banks reveals the haven he's found in the village of Keene Valley in New York's Adirondack mountains. Novelist Gloria Nagy, appreciates the baronial Cliff Walk in Newport, RI where she lives. David Guterson, author of Snow Falling on Cedars, walks the beaches of the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington. Pulitzer Prize winning poet and author W. S. Merwin introduces readers to the part of the National Tropical Botanical Garden on the island of Kauai, while "Today" show travel editor Peter Greenberg conducts a tour of the Midway Islands, a once lost but now found Pacific paradise.

Other notable contributors include Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who reveals why for her and her family, there's no place like Chautauqua, the lakeside Victorian village in the wine country of western New York. Rick Ridgeway, adventurer and author, travels back in time on the five, tiny Channel Islands along southern California's coastal fringe. Sculptor J. Seward Johnson Jr. revels in Natucket Island offseason. Finally, marine biologist Sylvia Earle remembers exploring the reefs of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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