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With more than 30,000 travel guidebooks on the market, it can be hard to keep up--especially when new entries keep coming and old ones keep changing. Budget-travel stalwart The Rough Guide has left a bit of its backpacking image behind with a stylish revamp and now includes some upscale activities, such as wine tasting. Its budget-travel competitor, the Lonely Planet series, currently features downloadable upgrades on its website that contain changes since the last edition was published. And for the more upscale traveler, two new guidebook series are creating a buzz...
Times were rough, what with the Second Gulf War having just entered its eighteenth depressing year, and I thought it would be a nice idea for me to take my son on a trip out of town for the weekend. I managed to leave New York and the i-banking job I never thought I’d find myself sucked into (what the hell happened to me?!), and took ten-year-old Marty Jr. on the early Amtrak to Boston...
...rough first day, with both captain Ryan Myers and freshman Sam Simon falling in one of their runs. Simon finished 43rd and Myers 44th. But both racers lauded the quality of the course, saying it held up well throughout the competition...
...inspired by my team this weekend, because St. Lawrence was really rough and just pounding our forwards,” Ruddock said. “Our ‘D’ was trying to adjust but struggling a bit on Friday, and I just have to do my part...
...16th birthday, Bayarsakhan was given this guitar by his own father, a renowned singer in Gobi-Altai. Now, almost 15 years later and hundreds of kilometers away from that stark idyll, Bayarsakhan starts to play one of his father's songs. The tune is rough, but the melody sweet. Words flow from memory?about Gobi-Altai and the land, about saddling up your best horse to ride across the valley. When it's over, Bayarsakhan stares at the ground. "I get sad when I play that," he says. "I wish I could take you to my home...