Travel Uzbekistan's Silk Road by train: From Samarkand's history to Bukhara's heritage

Sep 14, 2024 • 8 min read

For cruisers in the mid-Atlantic states who don't want to take a plane before embarking on their itinerary, the cruise terminal in the Port of Baltimore is an incredibly convenient place to begin your journey. But if you are flying, it's also only a 15-minute drive from Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI). According to data from the Maryland government, in 2023 more than 440,000 passengers departed from the Port of Baltimore.

Mexican flag carrier Aeromexico is expanding north of the border with nine new seasonal routes.

When I was 38, an astrologer in New York City warned me about traveling around my 40th birthday. "Stay close to home," he said.

Strikes are a regular occurrence in Europe, as employees withhold their labour to fight for better pay and conditions.

At age 21, my frigid home state of New Jersey was pretty much all I knew. That is, until I downloaded Tinder.

Paris has a leafy little secret: Tucked into grand boulevards, behind museums and churches, and inside hotels are secret gardens in Paris designed as back-to-nature reprieves. Secluded square? Woodsy park? Lush courtyards that look (and smell) more countryside than French capital? If you know where to look, the City of Light brims with verdant escape hatches from city life.

Sep 12, 2024 • 8 min read

On the first day of summer, I stepped out into the blistering heat from my apartment building in Alphabet City and headed west on 4th Street, bound for my home in the Catskills, some 130 miles north. I carried a 35-pound backpack filled with camping gear and little idea of what lay ahead.

Sep 11, 2024 • 10 min read

Sep 11, 2024 • 8 min read

From fiery birch, elm and sugar maple in the Great Lakes to sunset-hued beech and oak in the southern Appalachians to glowing sumac and cottonwoods along the Mississippi, the forests of the Midwest flaunt some of the most vivid fall colors in the United States.