| Traverse City Eco | Before Hemingway became obsessed with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing, Michigan’s Little Traverse Bay region inspired his youthful imagination. In the woods beyond the family cottage and the opulent resort hotels, he eyed wildlife, gun in hand, and cast his line in crystal-clear streams and lakes, often making friends [...]
| A Sausalito Treat | Lovely, historic Sausalito lies just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, in Marin County. It still has its colorful houseboats and more artists and interesting characters per capita than “normal” towns. Once it was a magnet for beatniks and bohemians and poets. Today it attracts mainly tourists. On Bridgeway, the [...]
| San Cristóbal Green | Chiapas is Mexico’s southernmost state, its poorest, with a troubled recent history (remember the Zapatista rebellion of 1994?). But it is also one of the most beautiful. And of all the grand colonial-era cities in this region of Mexico, we find San Cristóbal de las Casas, in the highlands of [...]
| World Heritage Gem | At the confluence of the Mekong and Nam Kham Rivers, Luang Prabang is among the best preserved and beautiful of the ancient cities of Southeast Asia. The U.N. named it a world heritage site in 1995. For centuries this was the royal capital of northern Laos, and French colonial rule [...]