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When planning a trip in the park, it is helpful to keep in mind that elevations in the park range from 800 feet to 6,643 feet and that the topography can drastically affect local weather. Temperatures can easily vary 10-20 degrees Fahrenheit from mountain base to top, and clear skies lower down do not guarantee […]

Sometimes the guide books get it right, and sometimes they are off. In this feature, we will tell you what the guide pros said about a place and then give you our take.
Our rough guide to Argentina had but a few pages on Uruguay, but that’s par for the course in guide book publishing. It […]

Perhaps he chose the U.S. Virgin Islands for the passport-free travel.
Senator Barack Obama is vacationing on St. Thomas, the most bustling of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Lots of shopping and cruise ship day-trippers there. He must want to be seen…we would have pegged him for a St. John/Caneel Bay sort of guy, ourselves.
CNN has some […]

After a day and a night in Colonia, we’d seen about everything. The next morning we hopped a bus through the countryside to Montevideo, Uruguay’s capital city of 1.5 million people.
We rolled into town during Holy Week, which we can tell you is about the worst time to check the place out: Everyone’s fled for […]

Just across the river from Buenos Aires, Colonia del Sacramento is one seriously picturesque tourist town. And like all tourist towns, it’s complete with plenty of cozy places to stay, plenty of places to eat and packs of roving dogs. (Btw, it’s a World Heritage Site if that’s important to you.)
The “city” is a gentle […]

The image of a struggling writer at a dingy motel is a well-worn cliché. That of a writer housed at clean, wi-fi connected digs in LA’s Koreatown is a little more fresh and is, as New York Times writer Dave Itzkoff tells us, a welcome change from the desperately posh hotels of Sunset Boulevard.
But […]

If you can get to Buenos Aires, you can get to Uruguay. South America’s second smallest country is just a quick boat trip across the Rio de la Plata, and if you’re gonna go all that way to get to Argentina, you might as well check it out.
Besides, isn’t BA supposed to be played out […]

So far in our new reader survey, a whopping 91% of you think it’s a good idea. We’ll be sharing the poll results with the airlines and media.
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When a Disney World restaurant announced it would ban kids under a certain age, some rebelled against the idea that there could be adult zones of a child-oriented place. But given this week’s tale of “line rage,” maybe it’s best to keep your children at home: Alabama resident Victoria Walker faces up to 15 years […]

How refreshing that the skeleton of CBGB’s old 313 Gallery performance-and-art space on the Bowery will sprout something other than a Starbucks. The space will hang on to the rock ‘n’ roll spirit when it is reborn as a second New York outpost of the Morrison Hotel Gallery.
The new space will lend itself well to […]