Most people don’t have the time to ferret out all the things they need to know to plan a trip. So, we’ve done it for you. And, at no charge!
Our guides — divided into blog links and calendars listed at right — provide news and updates on a wide variety of places to see and things to do, complete with Web links, dates, places, phone numbers and more.
Here are some images from places we’ve visited.
William M. Dowd photos
A sailboat is silhouetted by the setting sun in this shot taken off the coast of Sint Maarten in the
Netherlands Antilles island group of the Caribbean.
A ponycart rolls slowly past an ancient graveyard in the west of Ireland.
The pleasure boat “Bandwagon” emerges from under the Union Bridge on New York’s Hudson River
at Waterford, oldest incorporated village in the U.S.
Buoys become art in this scene from historic Macmillan Wharf in Provincetown on Cape Cod, MA.
Sunlight bursts through clusters of Chardonnay grapes on the final day of the 2008 harvest at
Sonoma-Cutrer vineyards near Santa Rosa, CA.
The ancient granite Edinburgh Castle complex sits atop an extinct volcano overlooking Scotland’s
capital city.
The famous Riverwalk in San Antonio, TX, is lined with colorful umbrellas at the many
sidewalk cafes that flank the waterway.
A fleet of sailboats comes out of Lake St. Clair into the Detroit River on the final leg of a competition
regatta between Detroit, MI, and Windsor, Ontario.
Visitors to the Ybor City portion of Tampa, FL, stop to view the statue of Vicente Martinez Ybor,
founder of the onetime cigar-making capital of the world.
Montreal’s Biodome Tower is one of the most striking buildings in the world. Inside is a
series of ecosystems of the Americas through which visitors can walk.
This house near Louisville, KY, inspired composer Stephen Foster, who lived in the Pittsburgh area
but frequently visited relatives in the Bluegrass State, to write “My Old Kentucky Home.”
This idyllic view is of Rockford Harbor on Cape Ann, MA, north of Boston.
A logger cuts down an American white oak tree in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, near
Hannibal, home town of author Mark Twain.
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