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Travel Tips

Travel tips from this month’s Journeys column

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Editor at Large: Going the Distance

This month we present the down under travel experiences of longtime editor Edwards Park

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Dear Smitty

Our authors write Smitty, our travel editor, about their journeys

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Wanted: Big Men

Catacombs of Paris

Empire of the Dead

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Splendors of Topkapi

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Good-bye, Rhode Island

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Mr. Edison Takes a Holiday

At Seminole Lodge, where the inventor wintered over in Fort Myers, Florida, he kept a second lab going strong

Fort Jefferson is no longer in use as a military facility and is currently part of the Dry Tortugas National Park.

A Jewel in the Dry Tortugas

Barren, birdy and beautiful, Florida’s remote Fort Jefferson has tales, terns and not much fresh water

Cyprus Lives in Love and Strife

Despite ethnic tensions, today’s tourists can’t resist the past and present of this ancient Mediterranean crossroads

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The Incredible Lightness of Being Renzo Piano

The maverick Genoese architect has built an international reputation with daring projects that span the globe

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The Ups and Downs of Highway 1

California’s coast road offers a beautiful drive—but it keeps falling apart

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The Steam Locomotive

Even in the computer age, a thousand-ton train driven by fire and water inspires awe

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Muscle Beach

America’s love affair with fitness began a long time ago in Southern California (where else?) at a place called… Muscle Beach

The Spray

Around the World Alone

Joshua Slocum was the first to do it, a hundred years ago, then wrote about it; the world is still awed by his seamanship and his prose

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The Yucatán’s Flooded Basement

Neither darkness nor swirling silt nor an alarming accident rate can keep divers from exploring this surreal labyrinth

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