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On our two-week vacation to Portugal, my husband and I planned a fairy-tale day trip to the town of Sintra, less than an hour northwest of Lisbon. Known as the first center of European Romantic architecture, Sintra is home to a stunning palace, the remnants of an ancient castle wall,…
For months, I’d been looking forward to my five-week solo trip to Mexico, where I’d be housesitting in a beautiful oceanfront home in La Paz.I expected I’d have a relaxing stay, and I was especially eager to learn more about the area and its local culture to see if I…
The corpsman strapped his patient onto the litter as the sound of swirling helicopter blades roared from a watchful instructor’s hand-held speaker. Double-checking his IVs were secure, he and a stretcher team hoisted up their casualty and sprinted toward the landing zone amid flying debris from the helo’s rotor wash…
