The AAA Tipsy Tow Program predicts 34.4 million Americans will flying, driving or finding another way to get to friends and family. AAA announced on Tuesday by offering a free Labor Day tow home for drinking drivers in Northern California, Nevada and Utah from 6 p.m. Monday until 6 a.m. AAA Carolinas said Wednesday it [...]
In the past few years, Singapore has gone through a kind of renaissance, it was once considered quite dour, but now offers a wide choice of activities both familiar and exotic. The arts are booming, the theaters are vibrant and the nightlife is pumping. Locals enjoy a high standard of living, and ‘fun’ is always [...]
In the cold, dusky dawn outside the old British Consulate at Kashgar, in Western China, pony carts slowly gather, their bells lightly jingling. Street sweepers work in the moonlight, stirring up a whirlwind of dust as the first cry of the muezzin sounds from Id Kah Mosque. Suddenly there’s a burst of firecrackers, and a [...]
When I think of Tuscan hill towns and the countryside surrounding them, an ideal stretch of roadway comes to mind. Off to the left is row after row of gnarled olive trees, limbs spread in arthritic helter-skelter, to the right, vineyards neat and laden with grapes. Dirt roads, white as chalk, run cursively through dry [...]
Taj Mahal, a monument of love between a beautiful queen and a great Mughal emperor. It is no ordinary monument of love. It is one of the seven wonders of the world. A colorful brochure of Taj Mahal says: “Before she died, Mumtaz Mahal made Shah Jahan promise that he would build a tomb that [...]
Time and again the city of Kyoto has worked its mysterious power on conquerors and casual visitors alike. It makes them want to stay. Ask any member of the large international population who came here out of curiosity and found themselves settling to devote years of study to Zen, or calligraphy, or any one of [...]