It’s Thanksgiving morning and I am sitting with a cup of coffee and yesterday’s Wall Street Journal to read about a new entry into the youth travel market: billionaire Ronald Burkle.  His private equity firm is planning to invest major dollars into a large-city youth hostel chain for college aged audiences.  This is big news for hostelling. - Read More -

Long before the advent of the Internet and the globalization of travel, medals and badges on military uniforms recognized participation in campaigns and tours of duty.   A recent book, Lest We Forget, by Judith Price, assembles military ribbons, medals, badges and other regalia to create a visual chronicle of 250 years of Western history.      I imagine most - Read More -