Consider these your training wheels.

Roaring rapids. Sky-high peaks. Great beer.

3 continents. 50 hours. Zero guarantees.

As far as Mexican beach destinations go, Puerto Escondido hits a sweet spot: moderately developed, laid back, well-touristed but still blissfully free of the sterile resorts and hordes of spring breakers in Cancún and other hotspots.

Looking out over a maze of whitewashed North African architecture from your seat at a panoramic rooftop café, you take in the minarets of mosques towering above a cityscape across which intricate mosaics abound, presenting the eye with colorful pattern upon pattern.

Every segment of the United States has its stereotypes, and the Northwest is no different.

From online dating to robots, technology has completely changed the way people date and have sex.

For the past 50 years, Cuba has been our mysterious Cold War enemy to the South, a forbidden place that few Americans were allowed to visit.

Everybody knows that Portland is weird.

Albert Einstein never said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results".