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I’ll be lucky if the postcard I mailed from the Galapagos Islands last week makes it to its intended destination in a year – or ever. It’s part of the charm of tiny Post Office Bay on Floreana Island, where for more than 200 years people have been leaving letters,...

Snowflakes are flying in Colorado, y’all. I sat down to coffee with a group of representatives from three Colorado ski resorts this week, who reminded me that now’s the time to buy lift tickets. “The earlier you can sort out plans, the cheaper it’s going to be,”...

You can leave the big bucks behind when you head to a state park this Sunday. To celebrate Texas State Parks Day, officials are dropping the day-use admission fee. That means you can hike at Pedernales Falls State Park, where recent rains have bumped up flows down the...

Despite a job that has, over the years, involved everything from water ski jumping to backpacking and mountain biking, I’d never really injured myself – at least not badly - until I detached my ACL last spring. Then, on the Ides of March, just two weeks after skiing...