"Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one." With a great little ditty like that, how could I not stop by the Lizzie Borden house when I visited Boston/Providence last weekend? Thanks to your fabulous suggestions, it made the list of things to do on our little extended weekend vacation. I felt kind of bad about dragging my friends to a maybe-haunted house where a possible psychopath might have killed her parents,... READ ON

Dreaming of a remote island where you can really get away from it all? So far away that you may never (be able to) come back? This week, we'll take you on brief tours of five prime vacation non-destinations. Before starting, you might want to fire up Google Earth, just so you'll know to get back home. North Sentinel Island North Sentinel Island, Andaman Archipelago, India. For Google Earth explorers, start out at about 5000 kilometers and center your screen at 11° 33'N, 92°... READ ON

Whether you believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone or think that John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 was the result of a huge government conspiracy, there's no question that Dallas is the place where it all went down. Since that's where I was last week, of course I had to check out the Grassy Knoll. As a side note, when we were consulting the GPS system in our rental car, we weren't totally sure how to look up the site of JFK's assassination. We didn't... READ ON

Earlier this summer, my wife and I journeyed westward to California "“ San Diego, San Francisco and Napa Valley. On the last day of our trip, for two reasons, we required an alcohol-free activity. First, we were pretty wine-tasted out. And second, I had to drive our PT Cruiser convertible 67 miles back to rental car return. We saw a sign pointing the way to Old Faithful. For about ten seconds, my hungover geography would have made Miss South Carolina cringe. Is Old Faithful really in California? Why... READ ON