Sometimes, not having cable (Jo doesn’t) can be a real impediment.
Last night, the Travel Channel featured Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations in the Ozarks.
Everyone seems to be talking about it this morning. If you missed it (and you get the Travel Channel) it will be repeated Sunday April 3 at 8 p.m. [...]

by Jo Schaper
At Traveler, we try to bring you the hard news story…and some of the story behind the story as well. It isn’t very often mythical creatures are involved, but at least one intervened in order to assure that Jay Jensen got a more full experience of the Ozarks.
Last week when I was [...]

The recent eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano (click for Icelandic pronunciation) brought to mind the St. Francois Mountains.
While news media accounts are concentrating on the air travel shutdowns and possible health effects of the eruption, what interests me is that it is a modern day analogy to the formation of the igneous heart of [...]