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Sacramento and the Gold Country
Published on 4 Mar, 2011 at 11:59 in Travel | | No Comments
Sacramento and the Gold Country Travel Guide
A new era dawned for California when James Marshall turned up a gold nugget in the tailrace of a sawmill he was constructing along the American River. Before January 24, 1848, Mexico and the United States were still wrestling for ownership of what would become the Golden State. With Marshall’s…
Provence
Published on 4 Mar, 2011 at 9:51 in Travel | | No Comments
Provence Travel Guide
Even the cattle and flamingos wallowing in the salty coastal marshes of the Camargue enjoy the sun-drenched good life that Provence provides so generously. In this smiling landscape and in soft-hue, elegant cities, where life still proceeds at an old-fashioned pace, you’ll find no end of pleasures. Favored hangout of the French café-squatting, people-watching, and boutique-shopping yuppie,…
Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Tempe
Published on 25 Feb, 2011 at 9:55 in Travel | | No Comments
Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Tempe Travel Guide
The Valley of the Sun, otherwise known as metro Phoenix (i.e., Phoenix and all its suburbs, including Tempe and Scottsdale), is named for its 325-plus days of sunshine each year. Although many come to Phoenix for the golf and the weather, the Valley has much to offer by way of shopping,…
Albuquerque
Published on 18 Feb, 2011 at 11:23 in Travel | | No Comments
Albuquerque Travel Guide
At first glance, Albuquerque appears to be a typical Sun Belt city, stretching more than 100 square mi with no grand design, architectural or otherwise, to hold it together. The city’s growth seems as free-spirited as the hot-air balloons that take part in the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta every October. In reality, this spread-out city has been…
The Mojave Desert
Published on 18 Feb, 2011 at 9:22 in Travel | | No Comments
The Mojave Desert Travel Guide
Dust and desolation, tumbleweeds and rattlesnakes, barren landscapes—these are the bleak images that come to mind when most people hear the word desert. But east of the Sierra Nevada, where the land quickly flattens and the rain seldom falls, the desert is anything but a wasteland.
The topography here is extreme; whereas Death Valley…
Summit County
Published on 12 Feb, 2011 at 10:15 in Travel | | No Comments
Summit County Travel Guide
Summit County, a mere hour drive from the Denver Metro Area on a straight shot up Interstate 70, is Denver’s playground. The wide-open mountain park ringed by 13,000-foot peaks greets westbound travelers minutes after they pop out the west portal of the Eisenhower Tunnel. The sharp-toothed Gore Range rises to the northwest and the Tenmile…
Vail
Published on 4 Feb, 2011 at 13:02 in Travel | | No Comments
Vail Travel Guide
If Aspen is Colorado’s Hollywood East, then her rival Vail is Wall Street West. So popular is this ski resort with the monied East Coast crowd that locals sometimes refer to particularly crowded weeks as “212″ weeks, in reference to the area code of their visitors. The attraction for vacationers from all over is the thin, aspen-cloaked…
The Italian Riviera
Published on 4 Feb, 2011 at 11:49 in Travel | | No Comments
The Italian Riviera Travel Guide
Like the family jewels that bedeck its habitual visitors, the Italian Riviera is glamorous, but in the old-fashioned way. The resort towns and coastal villages that stake intermittent claim on the rocky shores of the Ligurian Sea are the long-lost cousins of newer seaside paradises found elsewhere. Here the grandest palazzi share space with…
The French Riviera
Published on 4 Feb, 2011 at 9:46 in Travel | | No Comments
The French Riviera Travel Guide
With the Alps playing bodyguard against inland winds and the sultry Mediterranean warming the breezes, the Cote d’Azur, or French Riviera, is pampered by a nearly tropical climate. This is where the dreamland of azure waters and indigo sky begins, where balustraded white villas edge the blue horizon, evening air is perfumed with jasmine and…
Annapolis and Southern Maryland
Published on 28 Jan, 2011 at 16:49 in Travel | | No Comments
Annapolis and Southern Maryland Travel Guide
The past is never far away from the present among the coves, rivers, and creeks of the Chesapeake Bay’s lesser-known western shore. In the lively port of Annapolis, Colonial Maryland continues to assert itself. Today “Crabtown,” as the state capital is sometimes called, has one of the highest concentrations of 18th-century buildings in the…
Edinburgh and the Lothians
Published on 28 Jan, 2011 at 15:10 in Travel | | No Comments
Edinburgh and the Lothians Travel Guide
Edinburgh is to London as poetry is to prose, as Charlotte Brontë once wrote. One of the world’s stateliest cities and proudest capitals, it’s built—like Rome—on seven hills, making it a striking backdrop for the ancient pageant of history. In a skyline of sheer drama, Edinburgh Castle watches over the capital city, frowning down…