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- Aussie nugget: a quirky outback city built from gold mining
KALGOORLIE, Australia – I'm sitting in the parlor of a brothel in the far outback of Australia, sipping Earl Grey tea with the transgender former City Council member who runs the place. Do you think it's true, I ask, that a then-future U.S. president fell in love with a shady local dance hall girl, then ran off, brokenhearted, to China?
- That's their Hoover story, and they're sticking to it
So, what about this Herbert Hoover story?
“I don't think anyone can say for sure that it isn't true,” says Varis Beswick, a madam and once a City Council member. “I mean, after all, there is the mirror. And the poem.”
- Many go to Glasgow for shopping
GLASGOW, Scotland – A funny thing happened on my way to a museum in Glasgow. As a traveler who'd much rather tour a local city hall or hike a historic trail than go shopping, I got sidetracked – by shopping!
- YOU WANT TO KNOW MICHAEL MARTINEZ
Frida Kahlo Museum displays artist's life
A friend and I are interested in visiting Mexico, with an emphasis on Frida Kahlo sites. Any recommendations?
- Sleep like royalty, and maybe see a ghost, in a U.K. castle
As night settled over the Welsh mountains, I heard goats bleating. But where were they? Standing in the courtyard, I saw only Craig-y-Nos Castle towering over me, and the sound seemed to emanate from within its gray stone facade. Then I saw curtains flutter in the attic. A ghost?
- PICTURE OF THE WEEK IMAGES FROM AFAR
A piece of the West
During a cross-country bicycle ride from San Diego to Bar Harbor, Maine, Kenneth King of La Jolla camped out on the edge of the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park in Arizona. It was one of the highlights of his 10-week, 3,800-mile journey, he said.
- In transit
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