A skier heads down the slopes. Photo by Sue Frause. Ski season is just a flip of the calendar away, and British Columbia’s Whistler has again been touted by Conde Nast Traveler in its November 2006 issue. A trio of Whistler hotels swept the top three spots in the annual readers’ choice awards for the…
The best thing about the Northern California coast past Bodega Bay is definitely the Pacific Ocean. There isn’t a whole lot else that far up the coast. There are tiny beach towns deep in tsunami country scattered along the highway, but most of them have little more than a diner, a gas station, or a…
Garfield flies high in NYC. Photo by Sue Frause. Living with a turkey farmer has resulted in many a memorable moment. But flying with one of our homegrown birds from Seattle to New York City was an all-time high. First, a clarification. My husband is not a full time turkey farmer. He owns a public…
Travel videos appear to be the hottest thing on Travel 2.0 websites! This really hit me when, in two days I received announcement of new travel videos from the discount travel agency, Travelzoo.com and from the social travel site Tripmates.com. Travel Zoo Unleashed Travel Videos currently has three 20-minute long videos up: Washington DC, Atlantic…
What do Katharine Hepburn, Yehudi Menuhin, Georgia O’Keefe, Danielle Steele, Sharon Stone, Michael Tilson Thomas, Client Eastwood, Sally Field, Whoopi Goldberg’s staff and me have in common? Besides rare talent and dashing good looks, we all rely on Patricia Miller at A Bed of Roses Florist in San Francisco when we want to reward a…
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If you’ve never been to a Melting Pot Restaurant across the US, you’re missing out on a spectacular opportunity for fun fondue along with extremely tasty food-and-cheese pairings with an extensive wine list. In fact, Melting Pot Restaurants Inc. just announced that 53 of its locations have received 2006 Wine Spectator awards for their outstanding…
The saying goes, “Napa? They sell auto parts.â€? While that’s only partially true, other wine regions in California do exist. For people in the Bay Area, that means looking no further than their back yard. The Santa Cruz Mountains AVA claims just over 60 wineries; however, many are quite small and usually inaccessible to the…
Clarins Canada Skin Spa, which opened a little more than a year ago in Toronto, is a sleek red-and-white emporium where treatments given in luxe comfort can painlessly turn back the clock. Forget those excruciating extractions associated with most facials, the face (and body) treatments here are marked simply by a feathery, light, signature massage,…
If you can’t buy them, beat them. That’s the philosophy Bill Gates is taking today as he launches the new Microsoft Zune Media Player to compete directly against Apple’s market-leading iPod. The Zune is different because it’s WiFi-based, so it lets you share songs and digital photos without wires between two or more Zunes. It’s…
When I go to eat a burger –– a real burger and not that trash you pick up at a take out window –– I go for the old school flavors. I want my burger with a single patty, bacon with a slice of cheddar cheese melting on top of it, lettuce and tomato. Sometimes…
Cavalia, the spectacular equestrian odyssey, is heading to Las Vegas as part of its North American tour. Now on the road for three years, the spectacular show will be presented under its familiar White Big Top at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. The show opens November 16, 2006 for a multi-week engagement. I saw…