My wife and three of her girlfriends from California are in New York City today for the 2006 Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. Tomorrow, they’ll begin their 26-mile walk — 13 per day on Saturday and Sunday. Each of them has raised over $1,800 to fight cancer and fight a cure in their lifetimes. In…
Opened in 2002, Chocolate Coffee owners, Ken and Vera Bettin, have been brewing coffee, mixing ice drinks, and baking pastries for coffee-loving Atlanta locals. A hypnotic ambience of soft piping music, computers hissing encouraged by free Wi-Fi, and the friendly tone of the staff have helped transform Chocolate Coffee into a neighborhood institution, where it’s…
If road warriors –– most of whom travel with laptops and cell phones –– don’t know the best airlines, airports, and hotel chains, who does? That’s why Conde´ Nast asks them their opinions on the best of the best every year. The results? Top U.S. hotel: The Peninsula, Chicago; Top International Hotel: Four Seasons Hotel…
If you can afford to pay over $2 million in taxes per year, you can probably afford to buy Donald Trump’s 8,000 sq. ft. Palm Beach property, Maison l’Amitie, with nearly 500 feet of oceanfront, for a mere $125 million. Or if you have more spare bucks in the change jar, you can spring for…
I’ve always wanted to spend the night in a lighthouse. On my next trip north about 200 miles from the SF Bay Area, maybe I’ll stay at the Point Cabrillo Light Station in Mendocino, built in 1909. Its restored head keeper’s house is now called the Lighthouse Inn, which is one of only three lighthouses…
If there’s one city in the world where it’s fun to check out who’s wearin’ what, that would be Paris. I am by no means a fashionista, or even a semi-slave to fashion, but you can bet that after a week in Paris I never leave the house without being accompanied by a nice large…
An ice hotel in Quebec. An underwater lodge in Florida. A treetops lodge in the Amazon Rainforest. A reproduction of Rick’s Place from Casablanca in Manhattan. Or a lux cave in Arkansas. These are just some of the World’s Weirdest Hotels from Forbes.com. Each page features an overview of the hotel, room rates and contact…
I just ran across some interesting facts about the Blogosphere. Currently, there are: • 50 million regular blog readers; • 75,000 new blogs a day; • 1.2 million posts daily; • 50,000 blog updates an hour. Granted, that’s a whole lotta blogging and travel blogs represent only a percentage of it all. So that’s even…
My friend Elisa just returned from a week at the tré upscale Canyon Ranch Spa in the Santa Catalina Mountains above Tucson. She opted for the all-inclusive package with meals and spa treatments included daily at what they say is “The world’s most renowned wellness lifestyle company.” That’s a whole lot of pampering and she…
I once had a heated word battle across a pool table with Grace Slick, very late one night at a recording studio in San Francisco. She was cutting a Jefferson Airplane album and I was producing some radio commercials. She called me “Four Eyes” and it was all downhill from there. Anyway, speaking of the…
I caught part of a TV program this weekend on my local ABC affliliate called “Travel in Style.” The Director of Sales and Marketing at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island said that more upscale travelers are sailing their own yachts there, parking them in their harbor, booking a suite of rooms, then taking day…
This just in from CNN.com, per an anonymous Homeland Security Department official… Starting today, the US government will be partially lifting its ban against carrying liquids and gels onto airliners. So most liquids and gels will now be allowed on planes. Read the story.