Fred J. Eckert

This is the Ireland that too many tourists miss—but shouldn’t.

Five minutes after I drove into South Dakota’s Custer State Park, I found myself pulling over to the ...

Talk to any Madrileño—Madrid native—about his hometown and chances are you’ll hear this remark: “De Madrid al cielo.” It ...

“Sorry about all this traffic,” the taxi driver remarked as we drove through the “city” of Nuku’alofa. Traffic? ...

The man walking across the Plaza de Obradoiro is dressed in an outfit quite unlike anything else my ...

That slight drizzle that the Welsh prefer to call “mist” didn't bother us at all as we walked ...

So many foreign visitors who arrive in Ecuador spend next to no time in continental Ecuador, often merely ...

Sometimes you know in an instant that you are going to really like a place. That’s how my ...

In the Black Hills of South Dakota, less than a half-hour drive down the road from Mount Rushmore, ...

Few self-proclaimed “historic” towns around the country actually offer up much or even any truly significant history. Mostly, ...

Reading “Anxious People” reminded me why I became such a huge admirer of Swedish novelist Fredrik Backman. He ...

Happening upon “The Detective in the Dooryard: Reflections of a Maine Cop” by Timothy Cotton is like discovering ...

It takes a great deal of writing and storytelling talent to author a novel that can keep the ...

Walking along a narrow cobblestone street in Ciudad Vieja, the old city historic quarters of Montevideo, I am ...

There are two key reasons why I am such a huge fan of Brad Thor thriller novels: First, ...

We like cruises—love ‘em, in fact—but we had our doubts about whether a cruise was really the best ...

One of the most distinctive visitor attractions in the United States, a delightful park that appeals to all ...

David Ricciardi is not one of the best-known writers in the thriller genre—but he is one of the ...

Memorial Day is a day to remember that freedom is not free.

The surprising truth is that North Dakota is an unexpectedly interesting travel destination. It has great scenery, history, ...

“Devoted,” Dean Koontz’s latest bestselling novel, has several characters none of us would ever think to be avid ...

Visitors have been exclaiming about the area where northeastern North Carolina meets the Atlantic Ocean for a very ...

Few have heard of Howard Zinn and how for the past four decades his propaganda masquerading as history ...

If you think the pictures that you've seen of Mount Rushmore National Memorial make it look imposing and ...

When I visited Greenland a few years back, this autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark—it’s not a ...

Why should you read a novel about a nice guy, good family man, Wyoming game warden who keeps ...

Here I am at last—I have made it to all seven continents—and finally I have arrived at the ...