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I'm super excited to report I took the silver medal in the Travel Journalist of the Year competition in the prestigious Lowell Thomas Awards handed out by the Society of American Travel writers. The judges said: "Elaine Glusac digs a little deeper than most for that st...

Move over Korean tacos. The Native American version rambling around the Twin Cities in the Tatanka Truck are pre-European-contact, vegan, gluten-free and delicious from chef Sean Sherman. I chased him down for this story in The National.

Can a slow walk in the woods provide the natural means to stress relief, lowered blood pressure, better sleep and overall happiness? From Japan to rural Tennessee, fans of the practice of forest bathing say so. Read about it in this feature story in the December 2016 i...

In my new story in Departures magazine, I explore the Sacred Valley of the Inca in Peru from 14,000-foot hikes in the altiplano among alpaca herders to the many Inca ruins that pepper the valley floor.

Last spring, I had the great honor to work with Ted Turner, best known as the founder of CNN, who has launched Ted Turner Expeditions, opening his vast, private ranches in southern New Mexico to visitors as a way to educate them to his environmental efforts as he attem...

College applications are up, and so are college tours, in some areas jumping 30 percent. Campus visits are an investment in your child's future, as well as your relationship. I guest-write The Getaway column the New York Times.

In the wake of the documentary "Black Fish," SeaWorld has vowed to end its orca shows. So where can you see orcas in the wild? In the gorgeous but very wet Johnstone Strait region off Vancouver Island. My son and I went to investigate for this Chicago Tribune travel se...

For sporty, culture-minded and nature-focused families, I rounded up 20 family trips in four regions of the country in the annual US travel issue in the New York Times.

I put the perennial question -- Where next? -- to eight leading tour operators, including Geoffrey Kent, founder of Abercrombie & Kent, and Norman Howe, president of Butterfield & Robinson, in the cover story of Private Clubs winter issue. The answers were surprising,...

Today, the North American Travel Journalist Association's annual travel writing contest winners were announced, and I won two gold medals and a bronze! Feeling Olympian. Golds went to "Ghost Towns, Puffins and Unspoiled Views," a story on Newfoundland's rebounding Bona...