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• Road trip attraction: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

  I was drawn to the massive Los Angeles County Museum of Art in part because of Edward Kienholz’s Five Car Stud (1969–72), an installation piece depicting white men doing exceptionally gruesome violence to a black man they caught drinking with a white woman. The tableau, arranged in the [...]

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• Maybe Miami's humidity isn't so bad after all

  There's nothing like a December trip to any cold-weather spot and a few days in heated rooms to remember that no matter how much I'm bothered by South Florida's humidity, my skin loves it. My just-ended trip to Los Angeles (windy and in the '50s) demonstrated that a sample-size bottle [...]

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• Airline food rated

  Fellow roadtrippers flying to the start of your next road trip, and anyone else planning to board a domestic flight in the next few months, DietDetective.com has examined food available from eight U.S. airlines. If you don’t have the time or the inclination to pack your own snacks, this information [...]

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• A drive-through tour of Griffith Park

  It looked like most of Los Angeles was at the Griffith Observatory Sunday, looking at windstorm damage, because the parking lots were full and cars jammed into makeshift roadside parking places nearly a mile down the hillside.

  My brother, sister and I, in Los Angeles for a family reunion, [...]

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• Los Angeles: Griffith Park and childhood memories

   I am in Los Angeles for a family reunion. It seems I left Miami, in the heart of hurricane country, only to come to a city beset by hurricane-force winds. They did so much damage to Griffith Park, tearing up at least 400 trees, that it was closed.

  Sunday, my [...]

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• The Commissioner of Tailgating talks about road trips

  Joe Cahn calls himself the Commissioner of Tailgating. For 16 years, he has spent the entire football season -- just shy of six months -- driving around the country in his RV, going to tailgate parties. These road trips allow him to connect with people in a way that [...]

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• When you’re on the receiving end of a road trip: Tips for hosts

  When other people go on a road trip and end up at your house for a few days, living with them may not be easy (there’s a reason you left home all those years ago, right?). Now that we’re entering the thick of the holiday season, Ashley Grimaldo – who [...]

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• A party, Paula Wolfert, and the food of Morocco

  The waiter brings the lamb tagine, a stew lightly seasoned with turmeric, in a wide, shallow dish similar to the bottom half of a clay tagine vessel. But instead of setting it in the middle of our table, where we can scoop it out with our fingers as is traditional, [...]

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• When do you get the best price for a rental car?

  When is the best time to reserve a rental car? I'm planning a road trip in Arizona in the spring and wondered whether I'd get a better rate if I locked in a price well in advance, or if I'm better off waiting until the last minute. Do rental car [...]

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• Eating what's on the road -- literally.

  The ultimate road food landed on my desk Monday.

  Bugs.

  BBQ-flavored worms. Sour cream and onion crickets. Chocolate-covered insects, variety unspecified.

  The gifts were from the Travel Channel, promoting the new season of Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods, which premieres in January and will focus on America instead of ranging around the world. Did [...]

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