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Going Undercover With a Top-Secret Hotel Inspector From AAA
A real secret agent is supposed to strap on a gun. The guy I met a few years ago -- let's call him Ted -- had his suit pockets bulging with forms. Instead of a "License to Kill," Ted whipped out his...
View ArticleRick Steves' Guides: The Best in the Business
There was a time when I couldn't imagine anyone but me leading a Rick Steves tour. For 25 years, I personally led at least one departure of every itinerary. But for the last ten years, rather than lead...
View ArticleMy Newest Tour Guides Take the Field
There was a time when I believed only I could lead a "Rick Steves" tour. Of course, those days are long gone, and today I'm the first to celebrate that fact that our guides are the best in the...
View ArticleIce Castles In Creston, B.C. Show True Craftsmanship (PHOTOS)
Winter is the slowest time of year for B-Boys Construction, so what did the Creston, B.C. company do to keep workers busy and spirits high? Make castles. Out of ice. "We had some time and just thought...
View ArticleThe Most Expensive Cities In The World, According To Expatistan (PHOTOS)
We've all heard the story-worthy dream before -- ditch the small, quaint town for the big, bustling city and live the glamorous life. But when monthly rent costs you $4,250 and public transportation...
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Santa Fe's One-time Treasure: See It Now!
You have to ask yourself -- as did I: Why is the exhibit currently at the New Mexico Art Museum, in the art-mad capital city of Santa Fe, in multicultural New Mexico, attracting so many visiting...
View ArticleNew Florence Discoveries
I'm lucky to have friends in Florence, so I get to visit there pretty frequently. Every time I go I like to touch base with old favorites -- the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel, the small boutiques...
View Article10 Innovative Websites That Will Change the Way You Travel
Continuous innovation has fueled the rapid growth of online travel information and commerce. Even now--after the market has achieved a measure of maturity--would-be Internet millionaires keep searching...
View Article12 Worst Cruise Rip-offs
At the going prices, cruises can be extremely good deals. Whether a lower-deck inside stateroom or a top-deck suite, a cruise cabin itself is almost never a rip-off. That's especially true when you...
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Uttarayan, the International Kite Festival
If you find yourself in the northwest of India in January, do yourself a favor and wander toward Ahmedabad in Gujarat; you'll know you're getting close when you start to see a flurry of kites filling...
View ArticleNurses Save United Pilot Having Possible Heart Attack Mid-Flight
Talk about high drama. In an emergency situation called straight out of a movie, two nurses saved a United Airlines pilot having a possible heart attack mid-flight last month. Thirty minutes into a...
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Trinidad Oil Spills Leave State-Owned Energy Company Scrambling To Clean Up...
At least 11 oil spills have crippled parts of Trinidad and Tobago, coating miles of beach with crude as the state-owned energy company scrambles to control what's being called one of the country's...
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These Photos Prove Nature Is Beautiful, Even When Humans Are Destroying It
Sometimes the prettiest things can be found in the ugliest of circumstances. Take human pollution, for example. Don't get us wrong, pollution remains one of the worst plagues humankind has put on this...
View ArticleStunning Side-By-Side Look At London In 1927 And 2013 (VIDEO)
You may not be able to actually travel through time, but this video will get you pretty close. 86 years ago, filmmaker Claude-Friese Greene released "The Open Road," a famous collection of films he...
View ArticleIcelight Toronto Time-Lapse Highlights Frozen City's Icy Aftermath (VIDEO)
Eastern Canada's 2013 ice storm may have been destructive, but one photographer has taken an artistic look at what the sub-zero weather left in its wake. Gavin Heffernan was visiting his Toronto home...
View ArticleBullets And Beer Saloon, Combination Bar And Shooting Range, To Open In...
Take a saloon and combine it with a shooting range ... what could possibly go wrong? Deadwood, South Dakota, will soon find out. The City Commission looks poised to allow a local businessman to open an...
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Nifty Comic Perfectly Explains How To Look At Art
All too often we wander into a museum hoping, if not expecting, to leave somewhat different than we entered. And still the challenge remains: In a sea of wondrous, potentially transformative artwork,...
View ArticleRasondo Maurice Norris, Ex-AirTran Worker, Sentenced For Trying To Smuggle...
ATLANTA (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a former AirTran employee has been sentenced for trying to carry a machine gun and cocaine onto a commercial flight. Officials said Tuesday that 30-year-old...
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In 'Present Perfect,' The Rock Asks Y. And Y Not?
The artist Alicia Eggert originally tried to employ an old Macbook she already owned in her piece "Present Perfect," "but it kept crashing," she says. Eggert eventually purchased a more reliable...
View ArticleThe Name Game
We're hosting over 100 guides this week. They flew from all over Europe to Edmonds (just north of Seattle). While they may be aces, with all the tour-guiding experience in the world, we're dedicating...
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