When Meaghan Mulholland heard about a Hong Kong restaurant offering a unique style of service, she knew she had to try it, even if it did turn her stomach. Until a few days ago, if you'd asked me to pick the restaurant industry's worst contribution to society, I might have chosen KFC's "Double...
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Elephants lumber behind stone Scottish cottages.
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As a kid I remember watching The Adventures of Tintin on TV and being captivated by the intrepid Belgian reporter who chased a good story around the world with his faithful dog Snowy by his side. Tintin was a clever and fearless traveler, jetting off to faraway places that a young girl like...
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msnbc.com GPS, ebooks and other technologies changing the way we travel msnbc.com Ebooks are just one of the latest technologies changing the way we travel . E-mail, blogging, Facebook and Twitter have usurped postcards
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After working as a reporter in Cairo, Theodore May wanted to know more about the history, culture, and people of the Middle East.
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National Geographic Emerging Explorer David de Rothschild completed his four month journey across the Pacific yesterday traveling aboard the
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Say you're an editor at a travel magazine, and you're getting married. Your friends and family are all so excited, and keep asking you about the details: The location, the food, the music, and yup, the honeymoon. I fortunately had all of those first details squared away for my recent nuptials fairly early...
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One glance at Arkansas' 100 Free Things list proves the state worthy of its nickname, "The Natural State." You can hike to waterfalls, marvel at river-side limestone bluffs in the Ozarks, take a dip in Hot Springs, boat down the great Mississippi, or visit kid-designed Peabody Park, complete with climbing rocks, underground tunnels...
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It's taken me a few long months, but I'm happy to say I'm finally caught up on my Mad Men episodes and am ready to start watching the show in real time this Sunday, July 25, when it begins it's fourth season on AMC (10 p.m.
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Writer Aimee Brown is traveling
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Donald Trump's always been big on the fresh capital; a business maven known to lavish millions of dollars on revamping a single hotel.
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Animal advocate and college student Louisa Dickison is traveling Down Under, and offers up some tips on how to travel around the massive continent. Read her other posts here . Many people consider the ultimate defining feature of Australia to be the outback, which is easily as entrancing and mystical as the much-romanced...
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This week’s guests are Pam Mandel of Nerds Eye View and Amanda Pressler of Lost Girls World . Subscribe on iTunes | Become a Fan on Facebook | Download the iPhone app Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog .
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Ahoy! Calling all would-be salty sea dogs and lovers of nautical lore-- Washington, D.C. 's Folger Shakespeare Library has just the exhibit for you. Lost at Sea: The Ocean in the English Imagination, 1550-1750 is a brilliant collection of writings, maps, atlases, globes, and antique navigational paraphernalia, on display now through September 4...
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National Geographic Traveler columnist Christopher Elliott is trekking through the Los Angeles area with his family in search of the real Southern California . This is his seventh and final dispatch; read the previous one here . Nothing brings a family together like a little adversity, so it's probably no wonder that our...
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When I visited Hawaii's Big Island last month, I was lucky enough to go on a helicopter ride. First, let me admit: I get motion sick on Amtrak's Acela, claustrophobic in line for the bathroom at a rest stop along Interstate 95, and queasy when I lean too close to the edge at...
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A recent restaurant experience made me question the reasons and subconscious hopes we have when we pay someone to feed us.
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You won't find any Hamburger Helper here. Join beef patty lovers this weekend in Akron, Ohio , for the fifth annual National Hamburger Festival .
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Relaxation Courtesy Lake Lure After a full day of shopping, eating, and drinking, the girls and I were happy to spend a day in the town of Lake Lure, a forty-minute drive from Asheville. The town perches itself along the 720-acre man-made Lake Lure , created in 1927
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Traveler intern Daniel Bortz hates having to scour for a safe, clean restroom. Luckily a new list of America's top ten helps solve that problem, offering more from a bathroom than ever imagined
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Travelers headed through the San Jose International Airport shouldn't be worried about a delayed flight -- they should be wary of the 26-foot-tall space robot in Terminal B. You know, the giant, three-legged Space Observer , the one waving its propeller-tipped arms to and fro
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"There's Wi-Fi there, right?" "How about cable?" Yes, yes, I responded to my teen sons on the five-hour drive to Fayetteville, West Virginia . And indeed there was. But it turns out the siren calls of the virtual and broadband were no match against the elemental forms of Air, Water, and Fire.
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National Geographic Traveler columnist Christopher Elliott is trekking through the Los Angeles area with his family in search of the real Southern California . This is his sixth dispatch; read the previous one here
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TV and movie lovers rejoice: Comic-Con takes place this weekend, inviting fans around the world to meet stars from their favorite shows and hear about what it's like behind the scenes. Swarms of fang-bearing True Blood followers, honorary Glee club members -- frequently off-key or tone deaf -- and aspiring wizards from the...
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Mark your bucket list for next year. Contributing blogger Cathy Healy watched DC's fireworks from the roof of her condo building. She was feeling smug until she discovered that a friend in Orlando won the prize for Best of Show
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It's the constant controversy over many fast-food restaurants: genetically modified foods. GMOs present a number of health risks for both the consumer and the animal, but today the European Commission will formally propose a change to the country's stance in an effort to give back to national and local governments the freedom to...
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Visitors to Tennessee can now steer themselves back in time to a world of bootleggers and moonshine, where country music has its roots and Daniel Boone led pioneers to settle the wilderness. The White Lightning Trail, part of the Discover Tennessee Trails & Byways program, is a mapped driving route beginning in Knoxville.
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Talk about pampering your pup.
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Nick Fitzhugh and Pete Muller
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The Business Insider Facebook's NextStop? Travel brandchannel.com Is Facebook returning gifts to lighten users' loads so they're ready to travel ? Facebook just acquired NextStop, a small user-generated start-up perhaps ..
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