Two-for-one deals always get my attention. This one’s an unusual combination that mixes two interests of mine: Via Yoga’s Spanish Immersion and Yoga Retreat in March.
Seattle-based Via Yoga (www.viayoga.com) is offering a six-day retreat to learn Spanish and practice Yoga in the central-west Mexican beach town of Sayulita, just north of Puerto Vallarta.
Each day offers [...]

Tiny Empire, Colorado — population 335 — is known primarily as a speed trap.
Hundreds of thousands of people each year warily pass through Empire on their way to or from the ski slopes and hiking trails of Winter Park or Rocky Mountain National Park. The speed limit on US Highway 40 in Empire drops down [...]

Ah, winter vacations and memories of … schlepping bulky, heavy snow sports equipment to and through airports, stuffing it into rental cars and now paying plenty to check it through the airlines.
Leave the hassle to someone else this winter. Sports Express (www.sportsexpress.com) will deliver equipment domestically and overseas, and guarantee it arrives on time and [...]

The haves will always have, no matter what the economy does. For them, there’s the new Ego for Bentley, a $20,000 limited-edition notebook computer that takes the performance and style of Bentley Motors cars and puts them in a computer.
Ego for Bentley is a partnership between the British luxury automaker and Ego Lifestyle (http://www.ego-lifestyle.com/collections/bentley/). Only [...]

Stock prices are falling, gas prices are rising, the economy is collapsing and thus Artisanal Premium Cheeses of New York has decided to … lower shipping prices. Yes, lower.
The cheese shop (www.artisanalcheese.com), affiliated with my favorite midtown restaurant of the same name (about which I’ve written before) has decided to give customers a break. Wall [...]

I’ve put an awful lot of wine in my body. I just learned that putting it on my body can be just as wonderful.
The vinotherapy massage at the new Glade Spring Spa (http://www.suncadiaresort.com/vacation-spa-resorts.php) in the Suncadia resort community 80 miles east of Seattle uses Chardonnay-infused oil that soothes away all the kinks and knots during [...]

Get your Claret and carnival glass all in the same place: Vintage Vine LLC in tiny Roslyn, Washington.
The combination wine and antique shop opened in March in the little town west of Seattle that portrayed remote Cicely, Alaska, in the television show “Northern Exposure.” The town of Roslyn and the Vintage Vine shop are every [...]

It’s been decades since my last slumber party, but the fun deals at Denver’s The Curtis Hotel make me want to call my BFF, dig out the Ouija board and stay up all night talking about boys.
The funky, year-old downtown hotel known for its emphasis on pop culture kitsch is offering two great options for [...]