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Hotel puts luxury twist on mushroom-hunting trips
August 19, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 VAIL, Colo. – Mushroom hunting has never been as easy – or comfortable – as this. For $200 a person, the Four Seasons Resort Vail is sending out guided expeditions …
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Sample the laid-back pleasures of Lopez Island
August 12, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D10 LOPEZ ISLAND, Wash. – One hates to define a place by its cliches, but sometimes there’s truth to be found. “On Lopez, everybody does ‘The Wave,’ ” an Orcas Islander …
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London businesses taste Olympic slump
August 5, 2012 in Business on Page E6 LONDON – It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. The Olympics have turned London into a tale of two cities, with shops, hotels, theaters and …
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Event brings creative enthusiasm to Montana ranchland
August 5, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 HELENA – You don’t have to know much about art to enjoy watching it happen on a swath of Montana ranchland where painters set up easels for a day each …
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French fed up with own incivility
July 29, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D7 PARIS — It’s a July evening on the terrace of the legendary Café de Flore. A coiffed woman sips chilled wine, another savors her chocolate éclair. The one thing to …
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Past, present, future on display along Astoria waterfront
July 29, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 Along the waterfront of Astoria, Ore., you can sense the drama of times past. The hundreds of pilings where salmon canneries used to stand give a clue to a city …
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Discovering Dayton, Wash. worth the detour
July 22, 2012 in Features on Page D8 DAYTON, WASH. – Please, do NOT tell this to the fine people of Dayton: Staying in their small town was not our plan. We were looking for a last-minute, shoulder … 1
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Introduce family to favorite boardwalks or discover them together
July 15, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 1. Atlantic City Boardwalk; Atlantic City, N.J. Stroll along this historic promenade, considered the oldest and longest boardwalk in the country. Since the first wooden planks were placed in 1870, …
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How to navigate confusing world of travel tipping
July 8, 2012 in Business, Travel on Page E1 To tip or not to tip? It’s probably not the first concern on travelers’ minds when they set out on an international vacation, yet it’s an issue that presents itself …
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Take the family and go fly a kite
July 8, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 1. Kitty Hawk, N.C. Follow in the footsteps of Orville and Wilbur Wright, the famous bicycle makers turned flight phenoms from Dayton, Ohio. The brothers made annual trips to the …
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Amid GPS boom, nostalgia finds a place
July 8, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 COLUMBUS, Ohio — Used to be, Dad would stuff a half-dozen maps in the glove box before setting out with the family on a road trip to see the waterfalls …
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Cash need not go flying from pockets when visiting Chicago
July 1, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 The Mile A walk along the Magnificent Mile is a great, free way to take in Chicago’s history and architecture. Start at the bridge over the Chicago River on Michigan …
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Trip down the Li River exposes a quaint rural China
June 24, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 YANGSHUO, China – A search for iconic China often takes tourists to the Great Wall in the north and the archaeological pits of the terra-cotta warriors in the nation’s midsection. …
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30 years later, Graceland still reels ’em in
June 17, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 MEMPHIS, Tenn. – When Graceland opened to the public 30 years ago this month, nobody knew if it would be a success. Nearly 18 million visitors later, the house where …
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Auto-biography
June 10, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 TACOMA – The most important car in Tacoma’s spanking new LeMay-America’s Car Museum isn’t the 1930 Duesenberg Model J or the ice-blue 1951 Studebaker that welcomes visitors through the lobby …
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Southern California’s Coronado named nation’s best beach
June 3, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 CORONADO, Calif. — Like a Hollywood star, Coronado’s 1.5 mile-long beach literally sparkles, thanks to the mineral mica glinting in its sand. That’s one of the reasons why Coronado — …
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Golden Gate enjoys diamond anniversary with help of engineers
May 27, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 SAN FRANCISCO – The Golden Gate Bridge was heralded as an engineering marvel when it opened in 1937. It was the world’s longest suspension span and had been built across …
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A museum with something for everyone in Victoria, B.C.
May 27, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 Royal BC Museum This don’t-miss museum, the city’s biggest, has a world-class First Nations gallery (with ceremonial masks, totem poles and more artifacts of British Columbia’s native groups); natural history …
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Old World charm, vibrant culture converge in eclectic Maine
May 20, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 PORTLAND, Maine – I was in Portland all of 10 minutes when its soul rolled by on two wheels: a gentleman pedaling through downtown on a penny-farthing – one of …
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Most of Portland’s visual arts scene is within 20-block radius
May 13, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 PORTLAND — With a new Mark Rothko retrospective (and some even more eye-catching surprises) at the Portland Art Museum, Portland has plenty of visual-arts stimulation to offer – as well …
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Joshua Tree area offers hiking, eats, saloons, hot springs
May 6, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 It’s a dry heat – a boulder-studded, wind-raked Mojave heat in which rock stars lie low, artists think big, Marines train, weird plants jut toward the sun like beseeching biblical …
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Plenty of factors to weigh when flying with children
May 6, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 When it comes to family vacations, flying with children is likely one of the largest logistical dragons you’ll slay. From toddler tantrums and teen boredom to infant ear pain and …
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Travel smart with your cellphone
April 29, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 Smartphones can be handy tools for travelers. They can also be costly if you travel abroad and don’t take precautions. I have heard of people racking up thousands of dollars …
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‘Hangover Heaven’ on Vegas Strip to help weary partiers bounce back
April 29, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 LAS VEGAS – He had a Las Vegas wedding to attend, but Bryan Dalia was hung over from some marathon partying the night before. “I did two bachelor parties, back-to-back,” … 1
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Alaska bound: Iditarod Trail source love-hate relationship with snowmobiles
April 29, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C10 After snowmobiling 1,414 miles along the Iditarod Trail, Bob Jones said life is especially sweet back home in Kettle Falls. “I’m a free man,” he said. “I sold my snowmobiles … 1
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Jim Crow Museum aims to provoke thought
April 22, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 BIG RAPIDS, Mich. – The objects displayed in Michigan’s newest museum range from the ordinary, such as simple ashtrays and fishing lures, to the grotesque – a full-size replica of … 2
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Modern wonders meet ancient treasures in this Japanese city
April 22, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 KYOTO, Japan – Kyoto is a place that embodies everything I love about Japan: Serene ancient beauty mixed with already-tomorrow modernity. Many visitors arrive on the platypus-nosed Nozomi bullet train …
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Paddling, biking, fishing in Alaska has couple wanting more
April 22, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C10 Time is the issue that keeps most outdoor vacations from blooming into full-fledged adventures, especially in Alaska. How could any vacationer from Spokane do justice to a place that large?
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Bustling Bend is awash in beer, thanks to thirsty outdoors lovers
April 15, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 BEND, Ore. – It was when the 20-something guest-of-honor in a beer-saturated bachelor party aboard the Cycle Pub mooned a passing limo that Bend really proved that, if anything, it’s …
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With 7 national parks nearby, paradise always within reach
April 8, 2012 in Features, Travel on Page D8 Within a day’s drive of Spokane, there are seven national parks – Rainier, Olympic and North Cascades in Washington, Glacier in Montana, Crater Lake in Oregon, and Grand Teton and …
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