What’s a traveler to do if all he (or she) wants is to try dogsledding in a more relaxed, less-competitive environment?

“Though she rose to fame in New York City, O’Keeffe moved to New Mexico in 1949 and never looked back.”

“I had tried to get boyfriends to buy vans, but the relationships didn’t work out — with the vans or the guys — so after college I bought the Blue Bus myself.”

“I found new residential estates spilling out into the fields, technology-enhanced agriculture making ever more efficient use of the valley floor, vineyards consuming former produce and cattle country, and giant windmills churning out megawatts of electric power. But … the essence of the settings invoked in his stories remained.”

“[Cuban art’s] generally naïve style, frequently fantastical subject matter, and usually inoffensive approach might seem to say, Don’t take me seriously. But underneath, for those who know how to read them, other messages await.”

“Why did I think I’d read books when such cinematic splendor was taking place just beyond my seat? Waterfalls thundered, rivers raged, and wildflowers splashed moors and meadows with exuberant colors.”

“With its vertically eroded granite rocks, lush green trees and exquisitely framed, petite white-sand beach — a tiny deserted world surrounded by an aqua and cobalt sea — Cocos Island must have been Eden.”

“Like many an obsessive “Game of Thrones” fan, I’m entranced by the idea of life in medieval Europe—including fairy tale images of castles, and the raptors that carried messages back-and-forth between them.”

“Although today the bay is plied by cruise ships, yachts, passenger ferries and freighters, a heroic and colorful seagoing past is preserved on the Bay Area Maritime Trail.”

“Many have called her risqué, a term with which she would most likely agree. Fortunately, her treasured home — now open to the public — still houses her art collection in what is now the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Museum.”

“I’m typically calm and collected about situations where I know there is nothing I can change. But a view of the pub where I planned to meet friends for dinner that evening, stirred a twinge of anxiety. There was a real possibility that I might not join them…”