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If you’re longing for open spaces, beautiful scenery, and easy distancing, put a Montana road trip on your list. Ever since the start of the pandemic in 2020, road trip travel has become the most popular kind of travel for Americans it seems. It’s one of the best ways to travel safely and you can …

Hey, watcha reading? Any books about the world that are taking you on a virtual travel trip? Like most educated people with extra time on their hands, I’ve been reading a bit more lately than I usually do, trying to balance out the TV time with something that will fire the synapses a bit more …

I went biking along the Erie Canal last month, but it wasn’t what I was originally planning for. I learned a lot when I wasn’t on two wheels, however, and you can read about that in this month’s Perceptive Travel issue: Booms, Busts, and Rebirths on the Erie Canal. Someday I want to cycle the …

Patan was once an independent city state in Nepal, one of three kingdoms run by three princes that were the offspring of a single king. The three Durbar Squares of Kathmandu sprung up in these places centuries ago: in Kathmandu proper, in Bhaktapur, and Patan. The earthquake that shook Nepal in 2015 hit all three …

Albania is hurtling forward into a future that looks brighter all the time, but as the most recent country to shun communism, it is haunted by a repressive past. This is true for many ex-communist countries of course, but for this one its entire post-WWII history is dominated by one leader: Enver Hoxha. Some dictators …