Nestled in the heart of Amador County, Sutter Creek captures the legacy of the gold rush, with its charming main street and restored 19th-century Victorian buildings recalling a time when miners flooded the Sierra foothills. Just a few miles away, the town of Plymouth serves as the modern crossroads of
When you think of San Antonio, you may think of The Alamo, The Riverwalk, or Six Flags. What you may not think about is food. San Antonio is home to world-class chefs and award-winning restaurants. As one of only two UNESCO Creative Cities of Gastronomy in the United States, San
I’m 9,350 feet above sea level, surrounded by the Andes Mountains, and in a country at the center of the world, on the equator. Ecuador spans approximately 109,000 square miles, roughly the size of Nevada. The small country with an outsized contribution to astronomy, cartography, and evolutionary science, ranks as
The best thing about springtime in the Rockies of Colorado is that it lasts four months. That’s because altitude plays such an important role when plants and wildflowers come out.
Los Osos Valley Road, just before the off ramp to sleepy Morro Bay on the 101, drops you into Steinbeck country. Tidy rows of vegetables fan to the road from turn of the century farmhouses. The rich smell of fresh hay fills the air with the fecund aroma of freshly
As a chocolate lover, researcher and journalist/author, I’ve spent the greater part of a quarter century traveling the globe in search of the best chocolate travel destinations. St. Lucia — or Sainte-Lucie, as it’s known by the locals — pushes all the right buttons to be considered a top runner
Dream or reality? Is reality nothing but a dream? A pure product of our imagination? An illusion? The line between the two is often blurred. On the eastern edge of the Musashino plains, where much of western Tokyo lies, is the Sekiguchi Plateau, a scenic spot famous for its wild Camellias, since the fourteenth
Krabi, in Southern Thailand, is where many Thai experiences feel more local and personal than those at the more famous, yet fun, Phuket Island. Nearby Krabi is simply breathtakingly beautiful and worth going out of your way for and enjoying its hospitality, with its over 100 islands and jagged limestone
Portland, Maine is home to almost 400 different restaurants and ranks among the top cities in the US for restaurants and bars per capita.
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