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I love an old-fashioned soda fountain, and I found a classic, where I could perch on a bar stool and sip a strawberry milkshake, in downtown Kingsville, Texas. It didn’t hurt that the milkshake I got at Harrel’s Kingsville Pharmacy cost less than $4, either. My...

I ran a mile and a half yesterday.That might not sound like much – it didn’t to me, just a year ago. But that was before I took an ungraceful spill while snow skiing on the Ides of March last year, detaching my ACL and sustaining other assorted bodily damage. Running...

Fact: It sucks to get sick while traveling, especially if you’re in a foreign country. But it happens. And in the last year, it’s happened to me a lot, from a torn ACL while skiing in Idaho to a bout of gastrointestinal distress in Bangkok, vomiting in the Marshall...

Forget bath towels folded into animal shapes. The Sun Siyam Resorts where I stayed in the Maldives Islands went a step farther. They used palm fronds to create works of art on top of my bed at night. Read more: Ten things to know before you book a trip to the Maldives...