The Finger Lakes, New York: Taste the Good Life
According to Native American lore, the New York’s Finger Lakes were formed when the Great Spirit cast his hand upon the most beautiful land he had created. The region teems with nature’s bounty…
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A house rental in Kissimmee: friends, dreams, and memories
“Magic Moments” was on the nameplate on the house. A plaque in the hallway read “The best things in life come in threes… friends, dreams, and memories”. And that what we experienced.
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Fantasy of Flight, Polk City, Florida
For Kermit Weeks, planes are vehicles of freedom, a means of of pushing boundaries and reaching for the sky and stars. His private collection of vintage planes at Fantasy of Flight is the largest in the world.
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Portland, Maine: The Jewel By The Sea
Portland, the largest city in Maine, is on a small peninsula that juts into Casco Bay
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Nova Scotia’s South Shore
Nova Scotia is a peninsula bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of Fundy, connected to New Brunswick and the mainland by an isthmus less than 15 miles wide.
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Halifax, Nova Scotia
Wherever you are in Nova Scotia, Canada’s Ocean Playground, you are never more than 35 miles from the sea.
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Huntsville, Alabama: America’s Birthplace of Space
If you are driving past the cotton fields of Northern Alabama’s fertile Tennessee Valley and a 363’ high Saturn V rocket emerges in the skyline you are approaching America’s Birthplace of Space, Huntsville, also known as Rocket City USA.
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Montgomery, Alabama: Courageous, Rebellious, and Visionary
We were deep in the heart of Dixie, in the land where cotton was king. IThis city was the Cradle of the Confederacy and Birthplace of both the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement.
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Dahlonega, Georgia: Thar’s Gold in Them Thar Hills!
Just an hour north of Atlanta, at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains is Dahlonega, Georgia, site of the first Gold Rush in the USA.
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Discovering Zürich, Switzerland — one morsel at a time
We wanted to discover the essence of Zürich and found it one morsel at a time.
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From Palm Trees to Glaciers: The Bernina Express
As with each of our visits to Switzerland, we designed our trip around one of Switzerland’s scenic train rides. This time we chose the Bernina Express, the highest mountain railway in the Alps. The train maneuvers up mountains without the use of tooth-wheel mechanism, crossing the Alps and traveling through a spectacular landscape ranging from glaciers to palm trees. In 2008, the line between Thusis and Tirano was designated a World Heritage Site.
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Rockford rocks!
Rockford was once known as Midway since it was half-way between the mines of Galena and Chicago. It was soon renamed for its ford across the Rock River.
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Where time is measured by the sun and tides: the northeast coast of Maine
We headed for Northern Maine and visited places with the ambience of a more relaxed era– when time was measured by the sun and tides. We visited tiny fishing villages, met artists in their galleries, dined on the freshest of seafood, went on a whale watch, cruised aboard a lobster boat and discovered more about Native American heritage.
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Island hopping in New Brunswick, Canada
We enjoyed elegant afternoon tea, walked on the ocean floor, experienced the world’s most extreme tides, had the opportunity to bicycle with men in kilts, ate dulse and visited the Sardine Museum & Herring Hall of Fame.
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Stockholm, Sweden and the archipelago
Where the fresh waters of Lake Malaren meet the salt water of the Baltic Sea you’ll find the capital city of the Kingdom of Sweden– Stockholm. This political and cultural center of a country a bit larger than California is on 14 islands connected by 57 bridges. Its water is so pristine that you can swim or fish in it and, if you’re lucky, catch a salmon right outside the Royal Palace.
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The Eastern Townships: Just over the border, Canada’s Cantons-de-l’Est seem a world away
This area became a favorite summer vacation destination for wealthy American Southern aristocrats, industrialists, and large landowners who avoided New England after the Civil War. They built impressive homes, and the grandest was…
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Rockland, Maine: The Way Life Should Be
Captain Doug at the helm of the schooner Heritage, Rockland, Maine
The gentle sea breeze was a reminder of the state border sign that read “Welcome to Maine–The Way Life Should Be”. The farther we drove along the rugged coastline, the clearer this became.
Southern Indiana: The Spirit of America
West Baden Springs Hotel, with 246 luxury guest rooms and suites, was named for the renowned German springs. The six-story circular structure topped with the world’s largest free span dome has been called the Eighth Wonder of the World.
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Huntington Beach: Surf City USA
More than just a song lyric, the cool and casual California surf scene goes on, with the big waves, sandy beaches, and laid-back lifestyle of Huntington Beach –Surf City USA.
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Irvine, California: A master planned community becomes a convenient vacation hub
With a street system designed to avoid traffic jams and a network of protected open space, parks, and trails, it’s the paragon of what can be accomplished when a city is designed from scratch with the resources to do it right.
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