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The Best New York City Rooftops

The Best New York City Rooftops

When I first moved to The Big Apple, I was obsessed with finding the best rooftops in NYC. Almost every weekend, especially during spring and summer season, I felt the need to try a new one. Whether it was The Press Lounge, Harriet?s Rooftop or 230 Fifth, I developed...

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Enjoying in Emerald City: Enchanted by Seattle

Enjoying in Emerald City: Enchanted by Seattle

The glass sculptures were astonishing. Just once in my life I had visited a glass blowers' studio, accompanying my daughter's school study trip. Yes, I had seen the demonstrations of the glass being melted, blown and shaped into a delicate form. But nothing...

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Looking Back on White Earth, Minnesota

Looking Back on White Earth, Minnesota

My father saw gnomes as he neared death. They started with their backs against the paneled walls of his living room, moving closer and closer to him each day. He wasn't scared though. Rather, he appeared to be comforted by them. After Dad died, a hospice grief...

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Breaking the Con

Breaking the Con

Each year, one event commands the attendance of the world?s greatest superheroes and villains - San Diego Comic-Con. Since 1970, like-minded mighty humans, inhumans and other-worldly good guys and bad have stepped out of the comic books and movies, and gathered along...

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Haunted Savannah: Southern Specters and Spirits

Haunted Savannah:
Southern Specters and Spirits

Beneath the moss-draped oaks and graceful town squares of Savannah, Georgia, lies a city shrouded in ghostly tales. Known as the Hostess City of the South, Savannah?s picturesque beauty masks a dark, haunted past. Centuries of tragedy and mystery have left behind...

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Travel in Place: A Covered Bridge Tour in Oregon

Travel in Place: A Covered Bridge Tour in Oregon

Covered bridges entered Oregon's Willamette Valley in the 19th century along with pioneers settling the Pacific Northwest. Over 400 of these wooden relics of a past time are estimated to have been raised in Oregon, mostly from 1905 to 1925, but only 51 remain today....

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Keep Austin Texas Weird

Keep Austin Texas Weird

It was hot, way too hot, and I just came back from a whiskey distillery. Civilization was floating by through our window, while Eddie Vedder's Society was playing in the background. The thermostat read 100?, but inside the A/C was on full power. The interstate was...

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Visiting Ducklings In Boston Common

Visiting Ducklings In Boston Common

Boston, Massachusetts, brimming with history and culture has always been a tourist magnet attracting visitors to its world class museums, parks, sports stadiums, educational institutions and its numerous independence related sites. But I was here with my daughter for...

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Catalina Express and Island Hotel Partners Offer

Catalina Express and Island Hotel Partners Offer

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