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Leave cold behind for sunny adventures

December 14, 2014, 12:00am Travel

With winter on the horizon, perhaps it's time to plan a warm-weather family getaway. Here are five destinations to consider: Read story

Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet's &quot;You Only Live Once: A Lifetime of Experiences for the Explorer in All of Us&quot; describes experiences rather than places, from tasting the world's hottest chili peppers to the best birding, safaris, train rides and castles.

Holiday gift guide Travel books, for gifts or your own coffee table

Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet's &quot;You Only Live Once: A Lifetime of Experiences for the Explorer in All of Us&quot; describes experiences rather than places, from tasting the world's hottest chili peppers to the best birding, safaris, train rides and castles.

December 12, 2014, 4:00pm Life

Shopping, romance, bucket lists, inspiration and information: All of these things and more can be found in books for travelers that are out this season in time for the holidays. In addition to being gift-worthy, some of the titles make a nice addition to your own coffee-table collection; others are… Read story

Photos by Bettina Lanyi for The Washington Post
Against a backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Lord Shiva Nataraja Shrine is the Yogaville analog to Monticello.

Finding nirvana, tucked away in rural Virginia

Photos by Bettina Lanyi for The Washington Post
Against a backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Lord Shiva Nataraja Shrine is the Yogaville analog to Monticello.

December 7, 2014, 12:00am Travel

The rural valleys of Virginia's Buckingham County, threaded with woods and set against the Blue Ridge Mountains some 40 miles south of Charlottesville, might have seemed an odd place to establish an ashram and retreat center nearly 35 years ago. But when artist Peter Max brought integral yoga teacher and… Read story

Most of the security checks of bags are done by machines as baggage moves along conveyor belts. Illustrates AIRLINES-LUGGAGE (category l), by Ashley Halsey III (c) 2014, The Washington Post. Moved Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014.

Travelers’ baggage and the TSA

Most of the security checks of bags are done by machines as baggage moves along conveyor belts. Illustrates AIRLINES-LUGGAGE (category l), by Ashley Halsey III (c) 2014, The Washington Post. Moved Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014.

November 30, 2014, 12:00am Travel

Memo to the lady with the hot pink luggage tag: The six cans of Libby's pumpkin pie filling that you carefully knotted in that plastic supermarket bag are not going to explode. Read story

A snowboarder on the mountain in the Canadian Rockies, just 15 minutes from the town of Banff, Alberta. It?s one of a number of small resorts located near larger, big-name resorts.

Little ski areas are big fun

A snowboarder on the mountain in the Canadian Rockies, just 15 minutes from the town of Banff, Alberta. It?s one of a number of small resorts located near larger, big-name resorts.

November 30, 2014, 12:00am Travel

DENVER -- Big-name ski resorts might give you bragging rights when you go back to the office, but lesser-known mountains can give you something else: less crowded slopes, shorter lift lines and even outlets for Crock Pots. Read story

Bike riders along a section of the Centennial Trail, a 60-mile paved biking and hiking trail that connects Spokane with Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and Lake Coeur d'Alene.

Five free things to do in Spokane

Bike riders along a section of the Centennial Trail, a 60-mile paved biking and hiking trail that connects Spokane with Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and Lake Coeur d'Alene.

November 30, 2014, 12:00am Life

SPOKANE -- Spokane is Washington's second-largest city, with its 210,000 residents living about 270 miles east of bigger, richer and better-known Seattle. Read story

Tom Fritz Studios/Experience Music Project Museum
Jacket accessory pins and patches are on display as part of the &quot;Worn To Be Wild&quot; exhibit in Norfolk, Va.

Leather gets the spotlight

Tom Fritz Studios/Experience Music Project Museum
Jacket accessory pins and patches are on display as part of the &quot;Worn To Be Wild&quot; exhibit in Norfolk, Va.

November 28, 2014, 12:00am Entertainment

NORFOLK, Va. -- Just as suits of armor have routinely lined museum halls over the years, the 20th-century equivalent of protection, status and cool for riders of other kinds of horses is getting its due. Read story

The (small) heart of Schweitzer's ski village.

Schweitzer Ski Resort: Big on powder, light on parties

The (small) heart of Schweitzer's ski village.

November 27, 2014, 12:00am Northwest

For ski vacations, I often make a beeline for British Columbia, where lots of ski resorts have exactly what I want. Resorts such as Whistler Blackcomb, Sun Peaks and Big White are within a day's drive of Seattle and offer fun ski villages; ski-in, ski-out lodging; and lots of varied… Read story

Silver Mountain's indoor water park lets visitors go from snowboard to surfboard in a matter of minutes.

Keep kids happy at two small Idaho ski areas

Silver Mountain's indoor water park lets visitors go from snowboard to surfboard in a matter of minutes.

November 27, 2014, 12:00am Northwest

The ritual apres-ski drink at the Idaho ski resort Silver Mountain comes with a unique twist: 60,000 gallons of water per minute, moving at 35 mph. Read story

Amtrak's Cascades train headed southbound at the Vancouver Amtrak station in Vancouver.

Amtrak to be stuffed for holiday

Amtrak's Cascades train headed southbound at the Vancouver Amtrak station in Vancouver.

November 26, 2014, 12:00am Business

Throngs of people will traverse distances large and small Wednesday ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, but not everyone will get in their cars and hit the road. Read story