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TRAVEL INDEX

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American Landscape Engravings. Sixteen engravings ca. 1840 by W.H. Bartlett.
Beauty Spot: Adam's Peak (Sri Lanka), plus music by Corelli.
Being There. Readers' travel photos.
Big Bend National Park: The Basin. Pedro Bofecillos. Our guide to the park, in 3 words (well, maybe a few more than that).
The Big Pictures. Nine panoramic photos from our wandering staff.
The Blooming Grove Bronze Tablet.
Bluebonnets: A Wildflower Speaks. Izora Firelands on the true source of American strength and creativity.
Boquillas Canyon. Thomas Traherne plus rocks plus music (In The Chiliastic Hideon).
A Brief Visit to Death Valley. Cultural one-liner cum photo.
The Buddha at Kamakura. John La Farge's old watercolor, with midi.
Caravaggio or Bust. Doc Cuddy struggles to track down two 400-year-old pictures and then tries to explain why.
Cars longa, vita brevis. Six vehicles from the 2002 Houston Art Car Parade.
Catskill Byway. One photo, one old hymn tune, and one informational sign.
China X 15. Wm. S. Pollard III. New photographs of China.
Clone, Sweet Clone. Architecture then and now. Twelve old buildings and their recent clones.
A Day in Pennsylvania: Fallingwater/Shanksville. Nicholas Momurray's Frank Lloyd Wright pilgrimage has an unexpected ending. Commentary with 2 slide shows.
Dominion: A Screed. Itinerant mystic Chardo Blue Plains on which way's up.
The D-words. What happens when Chike Boggus stops for food on I-10.
The 10 11 12 13 14 15 Best Things to Do in America (and the 10 Worst Also). Ceci Lumley's guide to America for the discriminating traveller.
50 Plus. Looking up at buildings of more than 50 stories in Houston. With midi.
F O G. Verbal paradox + a Japanese Buddha + Schubert = ?
Forgotten Treasure
Four Corners. Boris Chao's lovely photos of part of the American West. Slideshow with midi (2:23).
The Freedom of Utah 12. Herbert Lehnert. Questions of liberty in the American desert.
Galveston Sconces. Jason Twinhaft on islands trapped in the past (with midi).
Gehry's Tattered Titanium. Carl Yadkin. Slideshow with music (1:34).
Grand Canyon Breaks. Arthur Varrick Ticklaw says it all in two words.
Grand Obsession/Grand Possession. Douglas Milburn. A review of Perri Knize's marvelous piano odyssey.
The Grand Tour, 2000-style. Nicholas Momurray. Europe in one month.
Great Sites: China. Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Beijing.
Great Sites: The Freedom of Utah 12. Herbert Lehnert. Questions of liberty in the American desert.
Great Sites: Kitty Hawk.
Great Sites: Las Vegas.
Great Sites: Natchez Trace.
Great Sites: Texas.
Happy Birthday, Martin Waldseemuller!
Holy Halls. An old song of love and tolerance meets a much older landscape.
The Hudson River. A panoramic photo, with midi, from Palisades Park.
Interstate Highways: We Rate 'Em.
Interstate Trivia Question.
Lines Found by Mr. Temple Duciel in the Poste Restante, Duino, Italy.
Lost Worlds. Rean Rhyne and Angus Verspeeten. 9 planets for imaginary exploring, with midi's.
Magellan's Lesson. Anyone for the other shore?
Mardi Blas 2000. New Orleans.
Me and the U.P. Izora Firelands explores the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Meanwhile, Back at the Louvre... The current state of High Art. Slideshow with midi (1:59).
Mi NASA es su NASA. Slide show of true-color photos of the earth, with midi.***
More Galaxies Than You Can Shake a Telescope At. Slideshow of Hubble Space Telescope photos, with midi (6:47).
Mother Jones in the Gloaming. A hopeful visit to her grave, with 10 photos.
Music of the Spheres. The best planetary portraits, with midi's.***
My 30-minute Trip to Las Vegas at 6:30 a.m. Slideshow with midi (2:05).
Neo-Edwardians: Us the Unknowing. Cassandra predicts. Again.
North Dakota Wants to Know. Chardo Blue Plains has a question.
Not All Texans Are Like George W. Bush. Izora Firelands discovers a great tree in Columbus, Texas.
One Lap Around Houston or Bust!
One Library to Go, Please. Rean Rhyne explains how to make your own audio books, cheap.
Our Trip to Santa Fe. A photographic report.
Paradises Then and Now. West of Eden, we glance back.
The Peaks of Otter: A 23-part report from a meandering trip to Virginia. Douglas Milburn.
Possibly the World's All-time Greatest Roadside Historical Marker.
Problems in Modern Transportation: The Sequel. Photos.
Reader's Delight
A Richness of Spirit: The New Mexico Novels of Michael McGarrity. Doc Cuddy.
Santa Fe. One photo of old Santa Fe with an even older melody.
Satyr Alert! An anonymous reader's photographic proof of a mysterious encounter beside a Texas Hills Country lake.
Searching for a House Under $40K in the Texas Outback. Kai Sonderling looks for cheap studio space. Slideshow with midi (3:05).
7 x 40. Forty photos from our archives to celebrate our 7th anniversary.
Sites Alive! The Magellan's Log Hands-on Tour of America.
The Solution. To everything. Found on the streets of Bratislava.
Spoor. Beginner's guide to walking through the forest. Or the desert. Or wherever.
Summing It Up. Chardo Blue Plains on what it all means, Alfie.
Texas Bluebonnets.
The Texas Tao. Hardy Mettcalf, Ph.D.
They Don't Build Hotels Like They Used To. Magellan's Log visits the Mohonk Mountain House in the Catskills.
Tripping. Book review by Reppy Duart, D.D.
Two Termini. An appreciation of Interstate 10.
The Ugliest Building in the World? Woodrow Stockdick does architecture. Bigtime.
Vikings in Oklahoma? Come with us to the Runestone State Park in Heavener, OK. (Yes, you read that right.)
Westward Ho! Bloce Kaibab. Our pocket guide to America for international travelers.
Wheel Words
Wherizit? A little quiz to test your map-sense.
WHEREZIT? 19 photos whose location you try to figure out (he-he).
Wher RU? 10 photos of famous places for you to identify.
The Wry Above, the Mud Below: An Appreciation of Dave White's Exile in Guyville. Temple Duciel.

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