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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...

You’ve probably seen photographs of the nuclear bombs that went off in the Marshall Islands in the 1940s and ‘50s – enormous, lint-colored, mushroom-shaped clouds rising like nightmares from the ocean, utterly surreal against the slender palm trees in the  foreground....

I detoured through the little West Texas town of Sanderson while heading back to Austin from Big Bend recently and discovered a new coffee shop called Ferguson Motors. I first wandered through Sanderson three years ago, when I wrote about the scrappy little town for...