ShareNow on permanent display in our Photo Gallery: 2010 Traveler Readers Choice winners. Check out this album for our readers picks of the best outdoor, places and people and businesses in Traveler  Country.
Ballots for the 2011 Traveler Readers Choice awards will be published in our September and October issues. Be sure to vote for your favorites [...]

ShareEveryone has to be from somewhere, and Jo has spent the great majority of her life somewhere in the Meramec River Valley. Seven years ago she wrote a short piece (reproduced here) about the origin of the word “Meramec”. Enjoy!
So: just what is a “Meramec” anyway?
The earliest in-print reference to the Miaramigoua River seems [...]

Shareby Jo Schaper
According to the Wildlife Code, it’s illegal to shoot deer from the road.
Lucky for Eugene and me, that admonition does not include a Canon G9 with a 2-gigabyte card. Saturday November 28, with admirably crisp late fall weather, we went to Salem on business, and unwilling to waste the day, stopped by Maramec [...]

Share Working on Traveler can be tiring.
Now, mind you, I’m not complaining. I’ve done a lot of more tiring things in my life, like packing and throwing boxes for a 12 hour day in a bindery, and proofing railroad commodity tariffs — pages and pages of reading columns and columns of numbers in the [...]