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Off the beaten wine trail: Explore four emerging regions

Top Travel Stories - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 18:00
Forests and pumpkin patches are the destinations of choice for day-trippers in autumn, but it's time to add a stop to the itinerary: ...

Vienna gallery recreates 1908 Austrian art exhibit

Top Travel Stories - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 16:54
Gustav Klimt's sensual depiction of lovers locked in a tender embrace is at the heart of a new exhibit featuring an eclectic ...

San Francisco is still dizzy over 'Vertigo' after 50 years

Top Travel Stories - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 16:06
When Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo premiered here 50 years ago, audiences and critics were unimpressed by the tale of a former San ...

Second homes: You'll have a swell time living on this isle

Top Travel Stories - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 14:52
Oahu possesses a combination of big-city and tropical-isle assets, from Broadway shows to towering volcanic peaks.

Take style on vacation with you

Top Travel Stories - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 14:46
Any frequent-flying fashionista worth her Louis Vuitton luggage knows she has to treat an airport runway just like a fashion ...

As international airfares soar, Americans stay in USA

Top Travel Stories - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 13:07
Travelers feel the pain of high domestic airfares, which rose this summer more than any year in the past quarter century. Meanwhile, ...

Pack your coolers along with your bags, and save your cold cash

Top Travel Stories - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 00:48
Coolers aren't just for camping anymore. Increasingly, U.S. travelers are bringing coolers on road trips and to hotels and resorts ...

Two new websites join the greenscape

Top Travel Stories - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 00:07
Two just-launched websites are promising to steer eco-conscious travelers down a greener path.

Turn off cellphones, corral the kids

Top Travel Stories - Fri, 10/03/2008 - 00:00
Fliers overwhelmingly oppose cellphone use in flight and favor separate sections for tots.

Maverick Art exhibit redefines 'Western'

Top Travel Stories - Thu, 10/02/2008 - 23:57
Don't expect cowboys and campfires at this Western art roundup.

Winemaking roots go deep into the Hudson Valley soil

Top Travel Stories - Thu, 10/02/2008 - 23:41
By virtue of a wine-grape-growing tradition dating to the 1670s, the Hudson Valley bills itself as America's oldest wine-producing ...

A taste of Old Europe in Eastern Townships, Quebec

Top Travel Stories - Thu, 10/02/2008 - 23:39
Since 1980, visionary winemakers in the Cantons-de-l'Est region bordering Vermont have braved the elements to establish a burgeoning ...

Good barbecue's not all they do in Texas' Hill Country

Top Travel Stories - Thu, 10/02/2008 - 23:36
Prohibition nearly wiped out Texas's wine industry, but it re-emerged in the 1970s and now embraces 163 wineries in four regions. ...

Put that in your cup and smoke it

Top Travel Stories - Thu, 10/02/2008 - 23:30
Smoking cigarettes may no longer be cool in your favorite bar, but smoking cocktails? Now that sounds hot. Pyro-inclined mixologists ...

Long flight? Comb through 747 time-killing ideas

Top Travel Stories - Thu, 10/02/2008 - 22:16
747 Things to Doon a Plane is a new flight manual on how to beat boredom at 30,000 feet.