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Santa Fe Gets a New Sweet Walking Tour as Underground Donut Tour Enters New Mexico

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The Underground Donut Tour has launched its first New Mexico experience in Santa Fe, pairing a walking tour of the historic downtown with churros, biscochitos, pastries, coffee and other local sweets.

Amtrak’s New Cascades Trains Are Finally Arriving in the Pacific Northwest

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Amtrak is moving closer to launching a new era of rail travel in the Pacific Northwest as the first next-generation Amtrak Cascades trainset arrives in Seattle for final testing before passenger service begins later this year. The sleek new trains are part of Amtrak’s nationwide Airo fleet rollout, a major modernization project designed to improve […]

The Countries With Multiple Capitals Most Travelers Never Realize Exist

The Countries With Multiple Capitals Most Travelers Never Realize Exist | The Countries With Multiple Capitals Most Travelers Never Realize Exist

Several countries do not operate from a single capital city. Instead, government functions are split between multiple capitals for political, geographic, or historical reasons. In some places, parliament meets in one city while courts or executive offices operate somewhere else entirely. Travelers often pass through these destinations without realizing they are technically sharing national capital […]

These Oddly Named U.S. Landscapes Are Real, and Worth Seeing

These Oddly Named U.S. Landscapes Are Real and Worth Seeing | These Oddly Named U.S. Landscapes Are Real, and Worth Seeing

The United States is full of natural places with names that sound fake, exaggerated, or accidentally funny. Many of them came from mining accidents, translation quirks, pioneer stories, or blunt descriptions from early settlers. The surprising part is that several of these strangely named landscapes are genuinely impressive places to visit. You can hike through […]

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The Pacific Northwest’s Most Fascinating Historic Sites You Can Still Visit Today

The Pacific Northwest’s Most Fascinating Historic Sites You Can Still Visit Today

The Pacific Northwest has some of the best preserved historic sites in the United States, and many are still easy to visit on a road trip through Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia. You can walk through Gold Rush streets in Skagway, stand inside Cold War missile bunkers on the Washington coast, tour Indigenous cultural […]

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