For travelers who depend on medical oxygen devices, the challenges of flying may be getting a little bit easier.

What makes foodies drive past the local chain grocery store, and travel miles out of their way, simply to buy pricey all-natural flax-seed bread and tomatoes cultivated from the farm down the road?

Because these days, it’s not enough to eat healthy.

Locavores are all about finding food that is grown or produced locally, and even limiting the term “local” to a certain radius (usually 50-100 miles). The idea of “sourcing” is to find food with its biography: where it was grown, who grew it, and how ended up on the shelves. And specialty grocery stores often satisfy both needs.

In response to this demand, gourmet grocery stores are springing up across the country, many of which are definitely worth a stop on your next visit.

When you think of boot camp, you may imagine our military hard at work. Well, in some places, you can make that workout a fun experience at an outdoor boot camp for civilians.

Staying healthy when you travel can be a challenge.

Aside from concerns like maintaining a balanced diet and getting enough exercise, the very act of traveling can present some unique threats to your health.

Since you probably don’t want to arrive at your destination with a severe cold or stomach flu, here are some tips from The Complete Travel Detective Bible (chapter 14 if you’re playing along at home) for getting away by plane while keeping your health intact.

We have all heard of going to the country on a vacation to get some fresh air, but this takes it a step further.

At these hotels, actual medical care is included as part of your hotel experience.

With a “wellness hotel” experience, you can do a lot more for your body than just relax…

It’s difficult enough to wrangle vacation time, especially when you almost max out your credit card on airfare, and jet off for a little R&R.

And then you arrive at your own little paradise only to discover that your regular weekday frenetic life has mysteriously come along with you.

Thanks to cell phones, smart phones, Wi-Fi, broadband, and other technologies we seem to be inescapably tethered to the real world. And not surprisingly it can often feel as if we never left home.