USA travel

One of the best ways to learn about a destination’s personality, its history, and its customs is to eat your way around town on a guided walking tour. You get to sample food from places that have been vetted by the tour company and you get some insight into local dining habits. If you’re going …

The year is coming to an end, so it’s time to round up all the great travel stories published throughout the year from Perceptive Travel, the online magazine with tales from wandering book authors. We started the year off with a celebration of our anniversary by publishing a rundown of the most popular stories we …

New Orleans is one of the most popular cities in the U.S., hosting more than ten million tourists and conventioneers a year. So you often need to reserve your hotel well in advance and make reservations at those famous restaurants that are worth the splurge.  You can soak up the magic of the city without …

If you live or travel in the USA, you’ll notice there’s a lot of really great beer in cans now. A lot of those cans have  great artwork too. For most of beer’s history, this was not true. You bought good beer in bottles. Crap beer came in cans. I can’t remember seeing any microbrews …

After you’re done visiting the Alamo, then what? Texas was once part of Mexico, it had a major port, and for a little while it was an independent nation. Texas history is convoluted, the area claimed at some point by France, Spain, Mexico, the USA, and the Confederate army. Oh, and there were Native Americans …