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Yosemite overlook can provoke emotional reactions
McClatchy Newspapers
12/8/2008, by Diana Marcum
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - There is an age-old mystery afoot here at the scene of the most iconic view of Yosemite Valley. Or maybe the mystery lies in those not afoot, such as the man who just drove past and stuck a camera out of the car window.
Either way, this is one of the most viewed spots ...
Arts community thrives in sprawling Houston
McClatchy Newspapers
12/8/2008, by Jane Wooldridge
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - In this city sans zoning, in a residential enclave of cozy bungalows and children's play parks, sits one of the world's finest private art collections open to the public. Ceremonial masks from Africa and Oceania share spectacular space with paintings by Magritte, ...
The reluctant tourists: Mayo Clinic makes this Minnesota city a magnet for millions
McClatchy Newspapers
12/8/2008, by Josh Noel
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - It's the town full of tourists who don't want to be here. Because who wants to get sick? Who wants to watch a loved one slip away? But that's why they come to this small city in southeastern Minnesota's rolling bluff country, where Midwestern friendliness is as abundant as ...
Staying at the Shack Up Inn, a real-deal blues hotel
McClatchy Newspapers
12/8/2008, by Tom Uhlenbrock
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - The sunset signaled the cocktail hour, and white tourists were relaxing on the porches of their sharecropper shacks. Suddenly, their reverie was interrupted by the lights of a Japanese camera crew filming its arrival at the Shack Up Inn like it was entering a sacred ...
A Mississippi blues tour finds plenty, including real-deal Delta bluesmen
McClatchy Newspapers
12/8/2008, by Tom Uhlenbrock
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - James "T-Model" Ford was waiting in the afternoon shade of his front yard, sipping Jack Daniels with a splash from a white plastic cup. Which was fitting, because I had listened to his CD, "Jack Daniel Time," on the drive down Highway 61 from Clarksdale.
At 88, Ford ...
Ahoy, Vietnam: Short cruises in the north and south find progress, peace and pollution
McClatchy Newspapers
12/1/2008, by Ellen Creager
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - The Bassac II chugs quietly down the wide, muddy Mekong River, swollen with recent rains. It looks just like the Mississippi _ except with rice paddies and banana trees. We are the tourist attraction.
"Hello!" children shout from the riverbank. Even the jaded fishermen ...
Glass blends with cacti in new Dale Chihuly installation
McClatchy Newspapers
12/1/2008, by Ellen Creager
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - A new exhibit by glass artist Dale Chihuly has bloomed in the desert just in time for Arizona snowbirds to enjoy. On Nov. 22, the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix opened "Chihuly: The Nature of Glass." The outdoor installation contains 17 large Chihuly works such as ...
Banzai Pipeline on Oahu is the planet's most famous wave, and a place where legends are born
McClatchy Newspapers
12/1/2008, by Gary A. Warner
The Orange County Register (MCT) - A seat at the 50-yard line of the Super Bowl will cost you a few grand. Likewise behind the home team dugout at the World Series, or center court for the final of Wimbledon. All you need to see the greatest surf event of the year is a ride to the North Shore of ...
Blue Ridge Mountain city of Asheville, N.C., offers Biltmore and beyond to those seeking art, music, food
McClatchy Newspapers
12/1/2008, by Bob Downing
Akron Beacon Journal (MCT) - This mountain city of 70,000 proudly calls itself the Paris of the South. According to some, that's because Asheville in western North Carolina considers itself to be the cultural capital of southern Appalachia.
French artisans came to Asheville in the late 1800s to ...
Where you should and shouldn't go
McClatchy Newspapers
12/1/2008, by Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - The U.S. government continues to issue travel warnings for Colombia, citing violence from narco-terrorist groups, including the threat of kidnapping. In its most recent warning in August, the State Department warned that violence remains high in some small towns and rural ...
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