Experience the Glow of St. Augustine’s Nights of Lights
In its 28th season, the St. Augustine Nights of Lights is considered a ‘must see’ event for the holiday season. In fact, National Geographic named it one ...
by Carrie McLaren
Places to Visit This Holiday Season
Explore Beautiful Berchtesgaden
There’s nothing quite like a Bavarian mountain getaway Once notorious as a 1930’s getaway for the Nazi elite, Berchtesgaden, Germany nowadays provides a captivating Alpine ...
Night at the Museum: Cleveland’s ‘A Christmas Story’ House
Want to spend Christmas reliving the classic holiday film ‘A Christmas Story?’ You could catch the 24-marathon of the movie on TBS or TNT on ...
Santa’s North Pole: Not Fake News!
The rumors start earlier every year, now well before Thanksgiving, just like the ads for diamonds, drones, and dolls. I guess they are an improvement over the rumors and attack ads whenever we have an election, ...
Welcoming the New Year Immersed in Snow
For 360 degrees it was a winter wonderland. It was like being in the middle of the Sierra with mountains as far as the eye ...
A Norman Rockwell Christmas in Rangeley, Maine
Some people prefer to spend the holiday season lying on a sun-drenched beach beneath the shadow of palm trees. Others take to the seas on ...
Winter Wellness and Adventure in Costa Rica
Once a year go someplace you’ve never been before. Dalai Lama I took this advice and went someplace new, which was also a bucket list ...
Off the Beaten Path: Holiday Escapes in Puerto Rico
My SCUBA diver instructor Captain Cachi checks my gear one last time, and we start slowly descending into the waves of La Parguera Bay in Puerto Rico. This ...
Movie lovers rejoice! The Academy Museum is now open in Los Angeles!
Discover everything you ever wanted to know about films here! After years in the making, the Academy of Motion Pictures has achieved the longtime dream of the movie industry of completing a 300,000 square-foot Museum Complex. While Los Angeles is ...
Ideas for your next trip
Captive by COVID for the Holidays
With coronavirus cases in the US exploding at an astonishing rate, the answer to “how will I spend the holidays” is currently unknown. I live in the ...
Delighting in Germany’s Christmas markets in my Colorado home
Evoke the warmth and good tidings of the Old Country by celebrating Germany’s traditions at home – beginning with Glühwein! I close my eyes and breathe ...
Holidays in the Amana Colonies
Recharge your batteries and get a reprieve from the hustle and bustle of the holiday season at the Amana Colonies.
Thanksgiving Memories in Wauchula, Florida
Live Oaks and Spanish moss shaded the Davises’ barn, which was in a small town of about 5,000 people in Central Florida surrounded by dairy ...
Trimming the Tree with Travel Treasures
I’ve been collecting Christmas ornaments from around the world for some time now. They make great personal souvenirs because they serve a higher purpose than ...
When Fond Memories of Celebrations Past Bring Home the Holidays
This year, unlike every year for the past decade or so, I will be home for the holidays but not ‘home’ for the holidays. Unlike ...
Hard Candy at Christmastime
There is no season more appropriate for family traditions than during the holidays. My family has quite a few, so we combine them all in ...
Rocket City Holiday Magic – Huntsville, Alabama
Huntsville, Alabama is known as The Rocket City for helping put mankind on the Moon along with its continuing role in developing the propulsion system to return humankind to ...
Chicago Christmas With The Grandkids
After hearing about Chicago’s bitter winters, its crime, and its other big-city problems, you would wonder why anyone would subject a little child to that ...
Discover The Louisiana Holiday Trail of Lights
Finding the twinkle in the Louisiana Holiday Trail of Lights here are eight enchanted cities to discover on Louisiana’s Holiday Trail of Lights, which guides ...
Whales, Walruses, and Polar Bears in the Russian Far East
The polar bear sauntered down the beach toward us. My heart pounded as he squinted in our direction, no doubt weighing the nutritional value of the 20 or so tasty morsels wrapped in fleece, down and Gore Tex just 40 yards away.
What’s Most Important for the Holidays?
My family’s ghosts of Christmases past would fill a barnyard. I suspect that hovering around the homestead still are the spirits of many, many animals that became ...
