Winston Ross

Patagonia is a very real place, and it's the kind of real place whose majesty surpasses the crowds that bombard at least the national park on the Chilean side during peak seasons. It's also vast enough to escape that tourist glut, if you know where to hide.

Instead of scouring the web for 20 percent off coupons for a two-year-old television or a mediocre pair of headphones, I threw together a holiday shopping guide for things I actually own. Life-changing things.

One of Europe's most fermented cities played a fitting host last week to the world's largest annual gathering of spirits aficionados at London Cocktail Week, where mixologists from 300 bars around the globe convened in The Big Smoke to test their boozy chops.

California 1 is open again, a development that will once again lure foreign adventurers back to these lush landscapes. But there's a more interesting way to wander one of America's finest regions, and it's the one that made a trip from LA to San Francisco plausible even when the 80-year old byway was out of commission.

Pickathon is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and though it has evolved over time, among the founders' key philosophies is creating a community event. Most adult attendees are hip to the ethos and keep a watchful eye on the kids in their vicinity, related or no.

Thanks to a weakening pound against the dollar and the euro, tourism in the UK is booming. With record numbers of international visitors to Britain each year, it's best to focus your holiday on mostly off the radar destinations.

OR-7 has inspired activists worldwide. His 17 pups have moved across Southern Oregon and Northern California. Unwittingly, he has done more for his species than any other wolf.

Even in the middle of Boise's biggest annual event, walking its downtown streets is still a stroll through a friendly, modest city. You wouldn't know the metropolitan area's population grew 3 percent in 2017 — the highest rate of any metro area in the US. Housing prices followed with an 11 percent increase, though residents can still rest easy: home prices are projected to slow to 4 percent this year.

If any countrymen can lay claim to the right to insist that foreigners strangle themselves to pronounce the most important word all of sauna culture, it's the Finns.

What looks like a hard-to-find taco stand in the hills of rural Baja California Sur is actually a Hilton Los Cabos feast at Tiki's Farm in Miraflores, featuring hand-pressed corn tortillas and freshly roasted vegetables ground into fragrant salsa molcajete.

The Garvin Gate Blues Festival began in 1988 as a free event with a lineup of local bands and a modest 500 attendees. Now nearly 40,000 people attend by its 8th year.

The comedian and outspoken Bernie Sanders supporter visits Trump country in new series.

On Sunday, more than 300 chefs, purveyors, and serious food enthusiasts mowed through dozens of small game-inspired plates at the 17th annual Wild About Game festival.

Pickathon, held each August on an 82-acre farm in Oregon's Happy Valley, sell a capped 3,500 tickets and treat visitors to a weekend of discovery that is agnostic to the charts.

How Jeff Bezos can save Whole Foods from itself.

About 30 percent of the world's seafood consists of cheaper fish being sold as a more expensive alternative.

Iceland feels like home — if home is a cosmopolitan city with breathtaking outdoor scenery within an hour or so's drive.

Dr. Louis Picker has a secret weapon to fight back against the growing AIDS epidemic—it involves herpes.

Some of the best up-and-coming acts to check out at Oregon's Pickathon Music Festival.

At Pride events across the globe, marchers signaled opposition to gun violence.

Presumptive GOP nominee says he wouldn't ban all Muslims from entering the United States, just those from "terrorist" countries.

Court's statement affirming a ruling that blocks Obama's immigration plan sure to inspire reformers this fall.

Grown for millennia, hemp's uses are nearly endless—but the industry struggles to get attention compared to its sexier cousin, marijuana.

Elizabeth Warren attacks presumptive GOP nominee as "racist, sexist bully" while Trump calls for increased profiling and monitoring of mosques.

Undaunted supporters of Bernie Sanders gather in Chicago for the 'People's Summit' as they seek to harness political enthusiasm to build a movement.

Market getting 'more saturated' with craft shops making hard cider in many varieties.

Sunday's massacre in Orlando leaves stunned Americans looking for a lesson.

Clinton is better off focusing on swing voters than trying to pander to the progressive left.

With voters more polarized than ever, and with their trust in the government at a nadir, trust is ranked lower on their lists of desired political attributes.

Domestic issues usually predominate but Hillary Clinton is seizing on Trump's incendiary foreign policy rhetoric as his biggest weakness.