The sky was a striking blue and the air was hot and dry as...
Beth Reiber
Beth Reiber began her freelance travel-writing career pretty much straight out of college, first living in Germany, then writing about the US, and then moving to Japan. Having written Frommer's guides to Japan for more than 30 years and numerous articles, she is an expert on Japan. Her interest, however, is the world. Now living in Lawrence KS, she writes about everywhere she goes.
Have you ever gone on vacation but, when you get there, find yourself following...
I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to The Henry Ford, a 250-acre complex in...
I used to associate bobbleheads with those figures I saw as a child in...
Most of Japan’s history–skirmishes and wars between feudal lords, legends surrounding ancestors of the...
Every city changes with the passage of time, but it’s hard to imagine a...
There’s never been an Olympics like this one. Delayed a year because of the...
If you were Black living in Tulsa 100 years ago, chances are you lived...
I suppose every town has its well-known eccentrics, but few leave a legacy more...
One of the most striking features of George Washington’s Mount Vernon is its grand...
It was to be our one big splurge, a beach getaway from our...
Travel around the globe necessarily ground to a stop with the onslaught...
Porto is Portugal’s portal to port wine. It also has one of the most...
I don’t know how many times I’ve returned to Kakunodate over the past...
Every morning I read the horoscope in my local newspaper just for kicks, but...
For traveling junkies, staying put during the COVID-19 outbreak can be a real...
As a travel writer specializing in Japan, I know I can never match the...
I’ve always wondered what it must be like to live in a town overrun...
Gone are the traveling days of steamer ships and mountains of Louis Vuitton trunks,...
I’d never been to Cleveland, so about the only thing I knew for sure...
When I first came to Tokyo in the mid 1980s, I stayed with a...
Nine years have passed since Japan’s northeastern coast was hit by a triple...
For the longest time, it seemed like I could talk hardly anyone into visiting...
