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Month: November 2017

9 Purr-ific Books That Costar Cats

reflection of half dome on the merced river in winter

Best Yosemite Winter Activities

Think you’ll miss out on Yosemite’s scenic beauty by visiting in the colder months of the year? Just take a look at some of Ansel Adams’s photographs and you’ll see…

Chile’s Punta Arenas: Museums and Historic Sites

Patagonia’s largest city, Punta Arenas is also the regional capital and the traditional port of entry, whether by air, land, or sea. Home to several museums, it’s a base for…

Argentina’s Cueva de las Manos (the Cave of Hands)

The Cueva de las Manos is a UNESCO World Heritage Site where stencils of hundreds of human hands, guanacos, and abstract forms cover the walls in orange, red, and yellow…

Lagardère announces financial results for Q3 2017

Grand Teton National Park Winter Activities

When snow settles on Grand Teton National Park, winter gear comes out. Snow-buried roads and trails turn into skiing and snowshoeing routes; with the snow, you can go anywhere.

Yellowstone Winter Activities

Winter is a time when you can find solitude in Yellowstone with only a handful of people instead of a thousand at Old Faithful Geyser.

15 Books for the Writing Life

The Writing Life is all-encompassing, and it would take hundreds of books to even scratch the surface, but these 15 recommendations are a great place to start.

woman laughing while riding on a sled in snow

Sledding in Rocky Mountain National Park’s Hidden Valley

In Rocky Mountain National Park, the place to slip-slide to your heart’s content is Hidden Valley, a now-defunct ski area that continues to entice powder enthusiasts.

The New York Times: Brave Enough to Be Angry

Last month, an Access Hollywood correspondent asked the actress Uma Thurman to comment on abuse of power in Hollywood, presumably in light of the sexual assault allegations against the producer Harvey Weinstein.…

An op-ed by WAR IN 140 CHARACTERS author David Patrikarakos on Time.com

New York again. Uzbek immigrant Sayfullo Saipov has now been charged with the death of eight people after ploughing into them in a truck in downtown Manhattan on Oct. 31.…

Jeremi Suri’s THE IMPOSSIBLE PRESIDENCY reviewed in the New York Times Book Review

“[A] succinct and original volume.”