Tripping through 2002
New places, old places: I've always liked that mix in travel. We editors don't get out as much as Bob and Solly and Toni--the Travel writers on this page--but in...
All Stories
Travel section, staff win awards
The Chicago Tribune's Travel section has won six awards--including three firsts--in the SATW (Society of American Travel Writers) Central States Chapter Writing and Photography Contest. - For the second straight...
Six for the road
It was the year of Africa. Two Africas, really. With chunks of Wisconsin and a little San Francisco, Iowa, Illinois and Michigan in between. When I began my year of...
A GOOD YEAR IN TRAVEL
Acting as a pair of bookends, a March trip--east to India--and a November trip--west to Thailand--took me to destinations about as far from Chicago as you can get in opposite...
A trip around the edges: Grand Canyon
"There is no one or best way to experience the Grand Canyon." --From the Guide to Grand Canyon National Park, handed out to all park visitors. Here, where almost nothing...
Grand Canyon Q&A
Q. I don't have time to see it all. What's the quickest way to get to the canyon? A. Daily flights from Las Vegas service the Grand Canyon Airport, just...
OUR YEAR IN TRAVEL
The three Travel writers on this page -- Robert Cross, Alan Solomon and Toni Stroud -- spent all last year telling you about their travels in 1999. They got paid...
HERE’S THE WINNER OF OUR GREAT CITIES CONTEST
Chicago is the third city to be featured in our year-long series of monthly reports on the Great Cities of North America. Covered earlier were New York City (April 18)...
CHOOSING OUR 12 GREAT CITIES
Our new series, Great Cities of North America, begins with an obvious choice. And after New York City there will be more easy-to-choose cities to come: San Francisco (next month),...
PERSONAL BESTS
All I remember from my first trip is that the stewardess gave me Black Jack gum on the DC-3 flight from Long Beach, Calif., to Catalina Island. It was the...