The Plains States

Do a simple Google search on “gateway to hell” and you’ll be surprised at how many results you get. Some are sites …

Southwest Texas is vast, and mostly empty. From San Antonio to El Paso, a distance of 550 miles, no town larger than …

She was not a good student. She had tried college and it hadn’t really worked out. She had fallen in with a …

In the parking lot of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, freelance tour guides wrangle tourists onto the …

The Old West was just the briefest snapshot in time. It’s odd to think that the era we consider the Rootin’ Tootin’ …

The years 1944-1960 saw the greatest expansion of the American economy we may ever know. They saw the end of Second World …

It was perfectly logical to believe. After all, the Rhine connected with the Danube via the Main and a short portage, tying …

At the South Unit of Badlands National Park in South Dakota there’s a visitor center that doesn’t really want visitors. The South …

Above all things I value authenticity in travel. Cruise ships, all-inclusive resorts, and gated communities hold little appeal for me. I like …

The ghosts of children are said to haunt the abandoned hallways of the Concho Indian Boarding School in Concho, Oklahoma.  Paranormalists take …