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For 27 years, ordinary travelers, admittedly, ordinary travelers with extraordinary budgets, could cross the Atlantic faster than a rifle bullet, sipping champagne at the edge of space aboard the…
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Every traveler who loves Venice has heard the warning, usually delivered with a sigh: go now, because it's sinking. It's one of those lines that sounds like exaggeration,…
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Four million people a year funnel into Yosemite Valley to stand under El Capitan and Bridalveil Fall, inching through traffic for views that justify every minute of it.…
Most trip disasters aren't bad luck — they're week-before oversights wearing a disguise. The card frozen abroad, the passport with five months left, the prescription in a checked bag that…
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Most disasters happen fast. An earthquake gives you seconds; a flash flood, minutes. What happened to Thistle, Utah, took weeks — slow enough that residents carried their furniture out…
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An hour inland from the Chilean port city of Iquique, across a plain of the driest desert on Earth, the road arrives at something impossible: an entire town, plaza,…