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“In 2008, my wife, my then-7-year-year-old daughter and I were going to take Amtrak from Los Angeles to Chicago, but the Amtrak booking agent screwed the reservations up so badly that we...
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I noticed a slight social shift on the second or third time I sat down for a quick catch-up meal with a fellow bilingual person in Mexico City.If the people sitting at...
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Linda Bernardi spent four years building her Malibu dream home, putting the finishing touches on the coastal Sunset Mesa estate late last year.On Jan. 7, she watched it burn to the ground.“I...
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WASHINGTON — Mykel Dicus, 54, is finished with the United States. In September, the Hayward, Calif., resident toured Spain with a company that specializes in scouting trips for Americans looking to move abroad....
Crossing up and over the fabled Donner Pass in the northern Sierra Nevada and descending to Lake Tahoe is one of those essential rites of passage for Californians. But forget doing it...
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In 2000, Eddie Vedder, the Pearl Jam baritone and outspoken proponent of abortion rights, threatened to move to “a different country” if George W. Bush were elected president.“With three Supreme Court positions...
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MEXICO CITY — From the first day I set foot here, I always knew I wanted to live in the Centro Histórico. It was overwhelming. The constant drumming, sirens, marches, music and street...
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The dusty truck bounced along the narrow streets of Jomulquillo, the village in the Mexican state of Zacatecas where my father was born. It darted in front of vacant homes, slowed past...
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Reporting from San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala — In the shade of my thatch cabana classroom, I beamed as my children, ages 6 and 9, serenaded me.Reid, my younger son, shook the maracas, his...
