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Forget bath towels folded into animal shapes. The Sun Siyam Resorts where I stayed in the Maldives Islands went a step farther. They used palm fronds to create works of art on top of my bed at night. I spent nearly two weeks in the Maldives in January, visiting three...

I felt like a character in a James Bond movie last week when I flew in a float plane to reach Sun Siyam’s Iru Veli resort in the Maldives Islands. After a 45-minute flight in the small plane, which soared over a string of tiny islands set against a turquoise backdrop,...

Ten things to know about the Maldives Islands before you book a trip... About 1,200 islands scattered across an underwater ridge in the Indian Ocean make up the Maldives Islands. It takes a long time to get to there from Texas. I flew Austin to New York City to Doha,...

I’ll be lucky if the postcard I mailed from the Galapagos Islands last week makes it to its intended destination in a year – or ever. It’s part of the charm of tiny Post Office Bay on Floreana Island, where for more than 200 years people have been leaving letters,...

I’d already stared at spinning wheels and leering clowns in one psychedelic room at Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station in Denver, then teetered through a twisted staircase to get to another. Now I found myself crawling into a subterranean space, gazing through a peep...

I love to taste the local flavors of the places I travel. I also love ice cream, so when I spent a few days in Anchorage last week, I bee-lined it – twice – to an ice cream shop that uses local plants to concoct its uniquely Alaskan scoops. Read more: When headed to...

Add soaking in an inflatable pool on a deck in the Chihuahuan Desert to the list of things that make me happy. I spent a night at Paisano Azul Ranch in Terlingua, where you can rent a yurt or a small modern cabin, or pitch a tent alongside a cactus-covered hillside. I...

I detoured through the little West Texas town of Sanderson while heading back to Austin from Big Bend recently and discovered a new coffee shop called Ferguson Motors. I first wandered through Sanderson three years ago, when I wrote about the scrappy little town for...

In 2019, a huge limb fell from the Cabinet Oak, the massive, 300-year-old tree just outside the doors of the Texas White House. But instead of tossing the wood in a fire or hauling it away, crews sawed it into chunks, then distributed it to more than 50 carefully...