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Veteran Austin paddler Jimmy Harvey is heading home, leaving German endurance paddler Freya Hoffmeister to finish her roughly 1,000-mile kayak trek through the western Arctic on her own. Hoffmeister had invited Harvey to join her on the expedition, one segment in her...

​Hotdogs taste better when you order them from a roadside stand shaped like a giant barrel, as I learned when I stopped at the Root Beer Barrel in Douglas, Michigan. The stand, built in the 1950s, closed in the mid-1970s. It stood vacant for 25 years, its wooden...

I’ve long dreamed about watching grizzly bears snatch salmon swimming upstream to spawn, so my recent visit to Katmai National Park in Alaska ranks as one of the best days of my life. After taking a 30-minute bear education class at the park (“Do not cheer when a bear...

I love to taste the local flavors of the places I travel. I also love ice cream, so when I spent a few days in Anchorage last week, I beelined it – twice – to an ice cream shop that uses local plants to concoct its uniquely Alaskan scoops. The first time I stopped at...