2005 Tour de France: A 21 Stage Salute
This year’s Tour de France should have its biggest audience yet –– both in person and on cable TV. As Lance Armstrong aims for an unprecedented seventh victory before retiring…
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Fly I on the Fourth of July: Independence Air
Independence Air is a new/old airline now with national routes out of Dulles Airport in Virginia. New because it became an independent, low-fare airline in November 2003; old because it…
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Rainforests, Volcanoes & Great Coffee: Costa Rican Eco Tours
It’s relatively easy to find places with pristine rainforests, excellent coffee and the nicest people in the world. Costa Rica is unique in having plenty of all three –– and Caravan…
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Resort Report: Spa Claremont, Berkeley, CA
Imagine lying on a warm, suspended environment, cocooned in a Mandarin Spice Wrap infused with sandalwood mist. That’s what my wife experienced for 50 minutes on a recent visit to…
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Barcelona to Baltimore: Frommer’s Top 10 Summer Destinations
Who’d have ever thought of grouping New York’s Catskills with the South Pacific’s Cook Islands? Or Baltimore and Barcelona? Or even Cambria (near Hearst Castle) in California and a town…
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Survey Says: The World’s Best Airports
This just in from Forbes.com: The World’s Best Airports by Lisa DiCarlo summarizes an annual survey from Skytrax, an airline and airport passenger research firm in London. There were over…
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Sleep with the Fishes
A new underwater luxury hotel is set to open in October of 2006 in Dubai, Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates. At Hydropolis, the pipe dream of German Architect Joachim Hauser,…
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Walls of Fame: Hotel Des Arts, San Francisco
Mesh Magazine reports about a new boutique hotel a block from Union Square, the city’s center for fashionable shopping. It’s also on the edge of the Financial District and Chinatown….
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Vacation behind bars?
Apparently, jail houses rock. In Sri Lanka, Galle prison, a centuries-old UN World Heritage site, is being converted into a hotel. On June 16, The Daily News reported the plans…