Summer travel planning doesn't start until someone rolls out a map and ticks off their favorite road trip route. Getting out on the open road is so in...
Daniel Klein | Posted 05.22.2012
We heard stories of Americans from generations past and others just off the boat. We were inspired and sadened by what we saw, heard and experienced.
Posted 05.23.2012
This summer, Americans are poised to take a well-earned vacation or two. If they can't go abroad, they have a myriad of choices right here on US soil,...
Fathom | Posted 04.25.2012
From time to time, the editors at Fathom answer letters from travelers in need of trip-planning advice. Fathom editorial director Jeralyn Gerba steers you away from road trip junk food.
Leora Novick | Posted 04.21.2012
The streets were clogged with traffic, brightly painted trucks, rickshaws and regal looking camels pulling wagons full of grain.
Hans Proppe | Posted 04.14.2012
If you go off the freeways and find the backroads or old routes of the western U.S., there are some interesting things to be seen.
Vivian Swift | Posted 04.13.2012
If you have a thing for France, you're not alone. The whole world has a thing for France. Proof: it's the number one tourist attraction on planet Earth, with up to 70 million people a year invading its picturesque city streets and charming country villages.
Rick Steves | Posted 04.09.2012
American roads are really good and so are American cars.
Rick Steves | Posted 04.07.2012
After the hurricane, homes built on a concrete slab left only the slab. Homes built on stilts in anticipation of flooding left absolutely nothing.
Rick Steves | Posted 04.06.2012
We brought a Frisbee and only managed to toss it around once. That was in Iowa.
CarsTravelFood | Posted 04.02.2012
When we think Nevada, our minds often go to Las Vegas. But not everything happens in Vegas.
CarsTravelFood | Posted 05.26.2012
Ohio wineries might be one of the state's best kept secrets, something worth exploring when visiting the Buckeye state.
Rick Steves | Posted 05.20.2012
had never been in a dry county before. The human craving for alcohol creates interesting challenges here.
Rick Steves | Posted 05.19.2012
The building is really as sumptuous and filled with symbolism as the great palaces I'm accustomed to seeing in Europe. But this is from the 20th centur, and all about food and Iowa.
Rick Steves | Posted 05.16.2012
Between Kansas City and Omaha, we took the back roads.
Rick Steves | Posted 05.14.2012
I love the way the big cities of the Great Plains, from Edmonton and Calgary in the north to Oklahoma City here in the south, erupt with shiny skyscrapers out of the flatlands.
Howard Frank Mosher | Posted 05.12.2012
On the face of the matter, my decision to barnstorm the independent bookstores of America from border to border and coast to coast when I was supposed to be resting up from debilitating radiation treatments doesn't make a particle of sense.
Rick Steves | Posted 05.09.2012
Grand Junction is a springboard for good country living: vineyards, thrilling rivers, red-rock canyons and fossilized dinosaurs.
Jacada Travel | Posted 05.09.2012
One the most incredible and awe-inspiring sections of Chile is the stretch of Patagonia linked together by Route 7, better known as the Carretera Austral.
Rick Steves | Posted 05.08.2012
e twin ranges, reaching out to surround the Utah State Capitol and an ensemble of stately church buildings, remind me of a vast geological answer to the Bernini colonnades.
Rick Steves | Posted 05.07.2012
In the men's room, a religious flier, propped on the sink as if waiting for me, asks the important question: "Where will you spend eternity?"
Rick Steves | Posted 05.06.2012
I'm kicking this 20-day, 20-city tour off with a stop in probably the most conservative corner of my state: the Tri-Cities.
Rick Steves | Posted 04.28.2012
Nicolina works with street kids in Rio, providing them with the outlines of anatomically correct hearts and cheering them on as they fill these hearts with their hopes.
Rachel Weight | Posted 04.14.2012
Much like it's evil twin, New Year's Eve, this "holiday" (which I'm convinced is a conspiracy of greeting card companies and chocolatiers) can make a single gal feel decidedly single.
Rick Steves | Posted 04.08.2012
I've long enjoyed middle-America gigs more than my regular stops in bigger cities.
Posted 05.30.2012