I wanted to take a trip after the holidays, but the polar vortex made many of my favorite places unappealing. Instead, I took advantage of our great local weather and traveled within sunny San Diego County. First Stop: Coronado It’s only two miles across the bridge, but somehow Coronado feels a world away from…
When it comes to cruising, getting there is a big part of the fun — but exploring the destination is also exciting. In Hawaii, the sightseeing starts when you sail along the coast of the Big Island and see multi-story clouds of steam where hot lava from the Kilauea Volcano enters the cold ocean.…
In search of the famed Aurora Borealis, we ended up discovering much more in America’s “Last Frontier” On my first night in Fairbanks, Alaska, I stood outside at one o’clock in the morning and stared up at the dark sky. The temperature was about 20 degrees. I waited and watched, but the Aurora Borealis…
Georgia O’Keeffe invited me to the Adirondacks. I’ve long admired the paintings she did around Lake George, New York, where she and Alfred Stieglitz spent part of each year from 1918 to 1934. These include images of bold barns, bowls of red apples, and — of course — voluptuous flowers. When I learned that…