High anxiety

GRAND CANYON - Starting out on a six-day series of wilderness hikes in the Grand Canyon on unmaintained trails where even a minor misstep can cost you your life is probably not the best time to discover you're terrified of heights. The "learning adventure," organized by the Grand Canyon Field Institute, was called "Six Days, Five Trails" and I was only five minutes into trail one, the steep Tanner Trail, when I panicked. More...

Editor's Pick:
Worth trumpeting

Krakow, the largest city in southern Poland, is nestled between Ukraine to the east, Slovakia to the south and the Czech Republic to the west. It is not far from Vienna and Prague, and it has elements of these, plus touches of Italy, France, Sweden, Lithuania and Russia. It is often included as a brief stop on quickie tours of Eastern Europe. But Krakow, a city of 800,000 people, deserves more time. More ...