Do you remember the last time you went on a trail ride? Were you thinking how great it would be to get on the back of a beautiful horse and gallop off into the sunset? Did you envision riding along …
Category: North America
Traverse City, MI, Christmas Light Tradition by Mike Norton
Whenever Kathee McCafferty starts feeling the onset of Holiday Shopping Stress Syndrome, she bundles her husband and their daughters into the family car and heads off to look at the Christmas lights. She doesn’t take them to the elaborate commercial …
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It’s Heaven, Dude
“Shorten your rein, grab mane, prepare to canter,” came from plucky Lari Shea, owner of Ricochet Ridge Ranch. Mounted on a Black Beauty double named Rascal. This petite lady leads countless horse treks through the primordial redwood forests of Northern …
Wonderful Mystic Aquarium by Bonnie and Bill Neely
Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration in Mystic, CT was for a couple of decades just a typical Aquarium, but now it must be listed among the top five in the nation. It also heads a unique class of its …
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The Best Seats in The House by Jane Danielson
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go to PGA Golf Tournament but think your wheelchair or scooter is holding you back- well NOT. Come with me to the Players Championship in Florida were you could see …
UP UP AND AWAY TO NEW MEXICO by Ron Kapon
A week long travel conference for the North American Travel Association brought me to New Mexico for the first time in 10 years. The population is under two million but is the fifth largest state in area. I had convinced …
SENIOR ADVENTURE WEEKEND by Ron Kapon
I was recently invited to a wedding in the Finger Lakes wine country of upstate New York (also the ceremony takes place at a winery). This 70 year old former athlete runs the wine program at a university, writes about …
Tacoma Washington Reinvents Itself by Bonnie and Bill Neely
We were in Tacoma Washington, just a few miles South of Seattle, in 1997 and it was not much of a destination town; however we stayed there because the accommodations were less expensive than Seattle and it was closer to …
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Chatanooga Choo-Choo Hotel by Karen Hamlin
Chattanooga’s proudest accomplishment is that it pulled itself up from the embarrassing label of America’s dirtiest city in 1969 to the list of Top Ten Best Cities in the US today. Indeed, it is truly a beautiful city. However, determination, …
Niagara Falls, Orchards & Wineries
When you think of Niagara Falls what comes to mind? The water of course, the Maid of the Mist, over the falls in a barrel, marriage and honeymoons. It has been 30 years since I last visited the New York …
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