Category: Stories
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Luxury Private Rail Car Travel Across the Rockies
I’ve previously written about my love of train travel and how it grew from the Amtrak trip I took around the country when I was a kid. For thirty days, my parents, my brother, and I traveled northwestward from New York to California and then southeastward back to our own region. I’ve had so many wonderful travel experiences since that time, but those memories of riding in a dome car…
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Fun Fall Travel Reading
It’s the end of summer, but luckily our weather is still nice enough to lounge outside with a good travel book: I’ve come across some interesting reads: Epic Bike Rides of the World: Lonely Planet’s new hardcover book show cases 200 of what this travel publisher says are the best places to ride a bicycle around…
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Fun Day Trip Back from NYC : The Cloisters, Tarrytown and Sunflower Meadow in New Paltz
Last Saturday, my husband and I completed our yearly ritual of taking our daughter, Sarah, back to FIT in Manhattan. We rented a minivan the night before and filled it all up with Sarah’s precious belongings. There’s no lot to park in, and security will only allow about twenty vehicles at one time to squeeze onto this narrow street to quickly unload everything (Yay). So the plan was…
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Massachusetts: Amazing Boston Pops Concert at the Trustees Castle Hill
The Trustees, Massachusetts’ largest conservation and preservation organization, is commemorating its 125 anniversary through a season of wonderful events. On August 6th, Robert and I celebrated our own anniversary when we attended by invitation one of those celebrations at magnificent Castle Hill in Ipswich, Massachusetts. There, with 5,000 other happy attendees, we sat on the property’s beautiful rolling grounds to enjoy the…
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Lonely Planet Releases Free Celebrate Rio Ebook
Lonely Planet has released a free new ebook guide to exploring Rio de Janeiro to celebrate the upcoming 2016 Games this summer. Celebrate Rio can be downloaded from Lonely Planet’s Rio destination page (lonelyplanet.com/brazil/rio-de-janeiro), which has been completely overhauled for visitors to Rio. Brazil travel experts will be updating news regularly throughout the Games at http://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/rio-olympics.…
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Things to do in NYC this Week: New Food Hall at Grand Central
Here’a a list of things to do in NYC this week, as published by the New York Times. And if you’re near Grand Central Terminal, go inside to check out its new Great Northern Food Hall. Located in the station’s Vanderbilt Hall, this foodie location envisioned by Denmark’s Claus Meyer. Native Sounds Downtown! (Thursday) This year’s edition of the National…
Travel Gal Kim Swidler 