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What’s better than having a second home where you can get away anytime you need to relax? If you answered, “having one custom-built,” you’re correct! However, such a massive undertaking…

When planning your much-needed, post-COVID getaway, you have a long list of potential locales to consider. The U.S. is full of beautiful, sweeping vistas, breathtaking mountains and picturesque shorelines. It…

Situated on Florida’s spectacular Gulf Coast, Sarasota is widely known as a magnet for artists and holds public art incredibly precious. Beyond Sarasota public art, including art installations seemingly at…

Denver farmer markets are more than farm-fresh affordable foods, family activities and scrumptious baked goods; although, you will find plenty of those things. Denver farmer markets are weekly festivals with…

The gentle clink of heavily weighted silverware against delicate china plates, snippets of muted conversations floating through the air like dust moats on a hot, steamy afternoon in the South…

Two decades ago I shipped my BMW R100GS motorcycle overnight from Key West to Cuba for a three-month-long, 7,000-mile exploration as a professional journalist. Come dawn, I leaned against the…

I admire those who can point to the dark night sky and identify a slew of constellations. Growing up as a fourth generation inner-city Chicagoan, looking up at the sky…

Visit for a weekend, visit for a week, you won’t begin to see all there is to see in Charleston. This city on South Carolina’s sunny Atlantic shore is a…