3.14 ways to spend Pi Day on the road

Apparently, pi is no longer just a handy way of expressing the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It’s a...

Slow down, it's Maine

BELFAST, Maine — The first sign says, "Slow." Then, about 50 feet down this back road in mid-coast Maine, there's a second sign. It...

Boston's JFK museum readies for 50th anniversary of assassination

BOSTON — Major, sudden and tragic events create indelible images, mental snapshots that enable people, decades later, to recall...

Travel with a classic touch, and a picnic blanket, to Massachusetts' Tanglewood

Lenox, Mass. — Travelers come to the Berkshires in western Massachusetts for the mountains and the museums, the camping and the...

New Barnes Foundation offers up its treasures in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia, the city that gave us Poor Richard, cheese-steak sandwiches and the American Constitution, just opened...

Amusement parks: Taking U.S. roller coasters for a spin

SANDUSKY, Ohio — As an amusement parks blogger, I have visited most of the big theme parks in Southern California and central Florida,...

New York: In the footsteps of Titanic survivors

NEW YORK — As you may have heard, the Titanic never reached New York. But about 700 of its passengers and crew did get here on the...

Tracking Wallace Stegner's footprints in Vermont's earth

Wallace Stegner wrote books about the American and Canadian West, so it's understandable that people consider the longtime California...

The best egg dishes at popular destinations across America

For me, the egg hunt didn't stop when I became an adult.

Egg dishes to sample at popular destinations across America

Chefs are pushing the envelope when it comes to egg dishes. Here are a few delectable options. Enjoy!

Red Lion Inn, Massachusetts

Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, Mass., is a classic place to curl up

It's been a mild winter in the Northeast so far and I, for one, don't like it. I miss those exciting blizzards that hit the region almost...

12 places to visit in 2012

New Mexico: This year, New Mexicans mark 100 years of statehood. But much of the state's appeal stems from its human...

Bethlehem, Pa.'s German Christmas tradition

"I'd love to go to Germany for Christmas," my mother often said when I was growing up, having visions of Kriss Kringle, the sparkle of...

New York City: A cab ride on a silent, soulful winter night

It's really just a wisp of a memory, but after 20-some years, I can still recall the beauty of that winter night in New York. I was in...

New York City's spots for book lovers

On the third floor of a big, gray building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, silver-haired docent Julie Chelminski recently stepped up to the...

New York Public Library gives up some of its secrets

In my family, we've never recognized a distinction between happiness and the handling of books.

The food battle for New York's Little Italy

A family from the Midwest formed a crescent around the posted menu outside an Italian restaurant on Mulberry Street, the main (and only)...

Family memories bubble to the surface in Maine

Reporting from Boothbay Harbor, Maine

Hike, bike and eat your fill of clams on Block Island

I am standing atop Clay Head, a 70-foot-high bluff, looking over miles and miles of open ocean on a clear summer morning. It is an ideal way...