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Kerri Westenberg

Travel editor | Travel

Phone: 612-673-4282

Kerri Westenberg is the Travel editor. She writes stories about destinations and consumer travel issues. She has globe-trotted for National Geographic and other magazines. Now she zips around the region, on the lookout for travel news you can use.

Recent content from Kerri Westenberg

Travel tips arise from rocky trips in skies
From tales of readers' troubles comes advice about how to ensure smooth flying experiences for the most wonderful -- and travel-filled -- time of the year.
Nov 23, 2008
Talking travel and great tales
Raphael Kadushin heads to Europe about 10 times a year and hops around the United States two or three times a month -- all to feed stories to such magazines as Conde Nast Traveler, Bon Appetit and National Geographic Traveler, as well as the "epilog" blog at www.epicurious.com. His next stop? Minneapolis.
Nov 8, 2008
Touting eco-credentials is hot marketing trend for hotels
Wisconsin has developed a green certification program, and the Pinehurst Inn in Bayfield continues to quietly go about its Earth-friendly ways.
Oct 25, 2008
A cold split
The author of the renowned "Out Stealing Horses" is back with a new novel about a young girl's coming of age during World War II.
Oct 10, 2008
Cheap tricks for summer trips
Prices may be high, but you can still take that summer trip: Check out the cost-cutting tips we gathered from travel experts.
Jun 27, 2008
At midlife, a change of scenery
Jack and Barbara Maloney quit their jobs, sold their house, parted with their grown daughters and made their way to their new home: a stone cottage in the Scottish Highlands. No matter that the walls were blotched with black mildew; they were embarking on what became a two-year adventure of shearing sheep, learning folk songs and befriending locals. The whole romantic endeavor is captured in their recently released book, "The Wee Mad Road" and at their website, www.theweemadroad.com. We tracked the wanderers down for a few questions in their St. Paul home.
Jun 21, 2008
For bumped passengers, time is money
New rules doubling the amount airlines must pay bumped passengers take effect Monday.
May 16, 2008
How to fly without all the baggage
As more airlines charge for checking second bags, travelers are exploring ways of sending luggage on ahead.
Apr 11, 2008
Wilderness by the miles
The Superior Hiking Trail may be the best known of the region's long-distance footpaths, but there are others, too, that cut through prairie, climb hills, cross raging waterfalls and allow hikers to explore for two hours or two weeks.
Apr 11, 2008
Plunging into waterparks
Temperatures may be dropping as swiftly as a body down a giant water slide, but that's no reason to put away the swimsuits.
Dec 9, 2007

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