Travel

No country in the world celebrates the Christmas holiday season with the joy and total exuberance of the cities of Germany. Thousands of visitors come from around the world during the month of December to experience the internationally famous Christkindelsmarkt, Christmas markets…

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The Pan American Highway, a system of roads that runs 29,800-miles from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, is the longest in the world. The idea for the road was put forth at the Fifth International Conference of American States in 1923 but the proposal…

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Quito at 9,600-ft. is the 2nd highest capitol in the world and the architectural history of the city is unique in that the Spanish erected their religious buildings atop Incan temple sites.

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Each time I revisit a city, I find that more sites have been added and additional stories are told in the quest to tell a “round, unvarnished tale” of life in colonial America and in the United States.

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Planning a ski trip starts with answering these three questions: What mountain should I ski/snowboard? Where should I stay while I’m there? And how much am I willing to spend on lift tickets and equipment rental? A ski excursion can easily cost a traveler thousands of dollars, but consumers who are frugal…

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The festive season is also known for eating and lots of it. Turkey, hams, pies, pumpkins, stuffing, latkes, candy canes, chocolates, you name it, it is being consumed. So whether traveling far or near, here is a list of the top towns to get your eat on over the holidays

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Germany is divided into 16 regions that are comparable to our states and Baden-Württemberg, the most economically prosperous, is situated east of the Upper Rhine River in the southwestern portion of the country. While the state’s prosperity revolves around several of Germany’s…

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St Louis has been a city of significant historical events, innovative architecture, indelible personalities, thriving multiculturalism that impacted every aspect of community life and the uncanny ability to reinvent and revitalize itself.

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Prehistoric people roamed what is now Oklahoma for thousands of years prior to the entrance of the Europeans in the 1540s. There is archeological evidence of large villages in the area as early as 600 AD and fragments of artifacts prove they traded with other tribes the length of the Mississippi River.

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Chickasaw were forced to relocate to Indian Territory on the Trail of Tears and the 1837 Treaty of Doaksville joined the Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes on land in Oklahoma. Census records indicate that at the start of removal there were 4,914 natives and 1,156 black slaves.

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