Travels
April 2025 sponsored by: Amercian Express
Antarctica
Dream Voyage
By: Bruce Northam
My quest to behold every country on earth normally bars repeats unless a place is indescribably astonishing. From the moment I left the Antarctic Peninsula in 2005 and returned to the southern tip of South America, I vowed to r ....
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Yukon River
Great River Journey
By: Laurie Gough
Few places in the world exist where there were once many people and now there are none. All along the Yukon River are the rotting and rusting relics of a population long since disappeared. In the gold rush to the Klondike ....
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Escape to Gotham
Overnight Retreats
By: Malerie Yolen-Cohen
Just because you live a half-hour from midtown Manhattan doesn’t mean you shouldn’t indulge in an overnight stay every once in a while; especially now, when, according to a recent New York Magazine article, &ldquo ....
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Royal Caribbean
Alaskan Cruise
By: Will McGough
This winter, Rhapsody of the Seas spent a month (and $54 million) at a dry dock to undergo a makeover and some on-board improvements. In May, I had the opportunity to set out on its second sail of the season to Alaska from Seat ....
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Cristal Room Baccarat
Paris, France
By: Danielle deBenedictis
My husband and I have had a pied a terre on the left bank in Paris for twenty eight years. I fancy myself a Paris cognoscenti, but somehow I missed Baccarat’s Museum and headquarters in the sixteenth on the Rue des Etats ....
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Fiesta Americana Condesa
Cancun, Mexico
By: Amy van Arsdale
The popular epitome of Location, Location, Location rings true for the discriminating luxury traveler too. If you’re considering a getaway vacation with the family the Fiesta Americana Condesa in Cancun is situated on pri ....
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Viking River Cruises
Amsterdam
By: Barbara Barton Sloane
Biking, busing, tramming or hoofing it, Amsterdam is a city easy to get around. It has beauty, charm, and hundreds of canals connected by 500 pretty bridges - and flowers everywhere! These 17th century canals enjoy the ho ....
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Frankfurt, Germany
Life After Lederhosen
By: Barbara Barton Sloane
Lucky me! In August of last year, I found myself in Germany - Frankfurt, Bad Nauheim and Kassel to be precise - a propitious, tourist-perfect time. The very weekend I was in Frankfurt, the city was playing host to its ann ....
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