Rachel Dickinson

The Lamborghini factory sits between Bologna and Modena, surrounded by narrow country roads. I know because I test-drove two Lamborghinis on those roads.

It's not fair, you're thinking. And you're right. I don't give a damn about cars. I feel I've made it in the world because I own a...

Visiting the Falklands is all about taking in the wildlife. On the surface, this seemingly barren archipelago in the South Atlantic, 300 miles east of the tip of South America, is a cross between Scotland's Outer Hebrides and the rocky interior of Iceland. But then you add five species of...

Patrick Watts collected me from Bennett House, my B&B in Stanley, and drove me out of town, past the Government House and the site of the old barracks, the first two places attacked by the Argentinians when they invaded thirty years ago. The more I got to know Stanley --...

I stood on the deck of the USS Alabama and scanned the water with my binoculars. Coots, grebe, brown pelican, gulls -- the usual suspects. I glanced to my right and saw "lead - dammit - lead" stenciled on the gray metal plates holding the anti-aircraft guns in place. Good...

We drove south along winding roads and watched as the landscape changed from large sweeping vistas down glacial valleys filled with slate-roofed stone buildings to a topography resembling the coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania. The Welsh differences: the narrowness of the roads, the little villages and, of course, the sheep.

On a cool, misty Fourth of July my daughter and I took the train from Braunschweig to Potsdam to meet Kevin Kennedy our guide for a four-hour bike ride through the city. Although I was yearning for a picnic with hotdogs and burgers, we settled for a break from typical...

By yesterday afternoon I was to be in Sept-Iles, Quebec, one of those you-can't-get-there-from-here kind of places. By this morning I should have been out on the cold, wild water at the mouth of the St. Lawrence looking for whales. Instead, I'm at home, exactly where I should have stayed.

Thinking about St. Patrick's Day makes me think of what a great time of year this is to visit Ireland. Last year, right around now, I was heading to Adare, a lovely little Irish village in County Limerick about half an hour's drive south of Shannon Airport. Arriving...

Lhasa is a city of contradictions. While this is Tibet's holiest city -- home to Jokhang Temple, which houses a 2,500-year-old statue of the Buddha that was carved during his lifetime, and the Potala Palace, the winter residence of the Dalai Lamas...

Evelyn Fredericks, our Hopi guide, is a small, energetic woman who walks like a New Yorker on her way to a meeting as she leads our little group on a tour of a remote canyon with fantastically shaped rock formations. As we gawked at the rocks (which reminded...