Boats

Why wouldn't a 16-year-old boy want to live on a houseboat? Why wouldn't a 16-year-old boy want to live on a houseboat?

See, there's this maverick single dad with three adopted kids, and he buys this old houseboat and starts restoring it ...
  • Shipwrecked in Manhattan

    His sailboat sank in the middle of the Atlantic, but how he found his way back to sea was even more unexpected.
  • Land ho!

    Our expert weighs in: Ships from over 60 nations tour the Eastern Seaboard; lighthouses offer beds to travelers; plus he's got the goods on Mount Rushmore.
  • Avast!

    Tips on spotting Alaska's great leviathan, choosing a mileage-earning credit card and renting a car in Europe.
  • Going upstream

    It was lovemaking with the landscape.
  • Blinded by science

    Love and molecules converge in a hot Thai swim one evening.
  • Thirty reasons why

    See, I say to myself, even your parents expect you to be rocking in Vegas on your 30th birthday.
  • "Legend of 1900"

    Giuseppe Tornatore's tale of a ship-bound piano virtuoso drowns in its own treacle.
  • Mondo Weirdo: Slow boat to Thailand

    A Wanderlust reader describes the temptations and tribulations of a boat journey to Thailand on the Mekong River in Laos.

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