
May 2014 sponsored by: Amercian Express

The J House Hotel
Greenwich, CT
By: Chuck Taylor
Greenwich is an interesting town. Great shopping. Great food. Great hotels? The town has several legacy choices such as the Homestead Inn and Delamar, but if you’re looking for contemporary digs you’ve be ....
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Squaw Valley Resort
High Sierras
By: Dr. Brett Denkin
With no direct flights from New York I headed to Squaw Valley, California via Seattle making use of my three-hour layover to catch up on history of the resort. Having hosted the Winter Olympics in 1960, Squaw Valley is often re ....
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April 2014 sponsored by: Jet Blue

Nantucket Wine Festival
May 14 -18, 2014
By: Chuck Taylor
The daffodils are still in bloom and the island's color is just starting to take hold. That far away place called Nantucket is just getting out of bed after an especially long, cold winter.
So you're thinking ....
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October 2013 sponsored by: michaelslimo.com

Mexican International
Food & Jazz Festivals
By: Barbara Barton Sloane
Emerging from a cool plunge in the deep blue sea of Banderas Bay, I settle back in our little motorboat which gently rocks side to side as it glides towards densely forested cliffs and an intensely azure grotto. The sun i ....
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Grand Cafés
Vienna, Austria
By: John M. Edwards
The obviously unemployable flaneur with umlaut eyes landed at my marble-topped table without a proper invite, brusquely pushing aside a Thonet wooden chair.
Brandishing a copy of Der Spiegel on a wooden rolling pin in ....
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September 2013 sponsored by: michaelslimo.com

Key West
Florida Keys
By: Charles Greenfield
Indisputably, Key West is family. Since the 1880s, the Wolkowskys, my mother’s people, have laid claim to this six-square-mile island at the end of the Florida Keys, a mere 90 miles from Havana. Great-grandfather Abraham ....
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July 2013 sponsored by: michaelslimo.com

Turnberry Isle
Miami, FL
By: Charles Greenfield
Recent luxury travel trends in South Florida have gravitated towards newly built condo-hotel extravaganzas and minimalist Deco retrofits. Few regional properties still resemble their original state. An exception is Aventura-dev ....
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June 2013 sponsored by: michaelslimo.com

Notre Dame des Cyclistes
Les Landes, France
By: John M. Edwards
While I was house-sitting a 15th-century farmhouse in historical Gascony, with a backyard view of the snow-capped Pyrennees, I decided one bracing morning over a café du lait to hire a bike and make a pilgrimage to one o ....
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