Cambridge, Ohio As soon as Halloween is over, the Central Ohio town of Cambridge will have a festive Victorian look, not only among its buildings, but also its people, some of whom dress and act like Charles Dickens characters for two months each winter. Through early January, downtown Cambridge celebrates all things Dickens, from carolers…
"The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road" by Paul Theroux (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; $25). Paul Theroux celebrates his decades of wandering the globe in his latest book by collecting the best writing about travel from others, whose work shaped him as both a reader and a traveler. He writes of the…
Afar magazine, the Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle won top honors as the best travel publications in North America in the 2010 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. Travel Journalist of the Year is Andrew McCarthy, actor, director and now travel writer, who won the gold for his portfolio of articles in some of North America’s best…
It seems I was the only person in the world who had never been to Powell’s City of Books in Portland, Oregon. Fixed that. Rummaged around Powell’s downtown store – as big as a city block — for more than hour. Got a bit lost in the maze of sections and floors that once held a parking garage.…
Like travel, baseball is one of my passions, which I satisfy in my midlife years with shared season tickets to watch the Cleveland Indians — and a franchise in a cerebral game called Rotisserie. Ours, I'm sure, is the only Rotisserie baseball league in the country with a Poet Laureate. Every April, a group of…
Newspapers, magazines, Web sites, blogs, writers and photographers win awards in annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition National Geographic Traveler wins two gold awards — for its magazine and its Web site — in the 2009 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. Among other winners announced today in Guadalajara, Mexico, sister magazine, National Geographic Adventure, takes top honors in…