Bogeymen just aren't all they're cracked up to be.

And who could be more boogifying than the Mexican police? I still recall my friends being stopped by the Mexican police on their honeymoon back in the 1970s.

Newlyweds from South Dakota, they were pulled over by the Mexican...

If you have only a week to travel in Newfoundland, you must explore the Viking Trail.

(What I'm really thinking: Silly you. Why go all the way to Newfoundland and only stay a week?)

The Viking Trail begins and ends with UNESCO World Heritage sites a...

"They're called bakeapple because when the sun shines, they smell like...

St. John's, Newfoundland, is a city that makes you happy just to be there.

After all, who can be be crabby in a town that is crammed with jellybean houses? How can you sulk in a city with a street (George St.) that has more pubs per square foot...

Newfoundland is a scrap of foam blown from the Canadian mainland. It's a rugged, ragged mound of rock, a squiggle in the Atlantic, lying almost due west from Ireland. This means that there is a lot of red hair, a quirky humor in the naming of things: Witless Bay, Dildo,...