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May’s featured destination is Los Angeles, that southern California mecca of beaches, celebrity, theme parks, and a sprawling urban community.  We’ll bring you some suggestions about our favorites places, and hope you’ll discover a few of your own.

 

Our theme this month is cruising.  We’ll give you plenty of inspiration and information to get you packed and out to sea.

 

Coming up in June:  Northern Europe, museums.

Best Locally-Owned Los Angeles Boutiques

Los-Angeles-shopping

I’d rather go to hell than to a mall. This equates to countless hours scouring both the glamorous and gritty streets of Los Angeles to find local shops for everything from groceries to garter belts to galoshes. I try to follow the mindset of Be Local, Buy Local whenever possible, even if that means facing [...]

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Best Burgers in Los Angeles

Best Burgers Los Angeles

Burgers in Los Angeles are as pizza is in New York: a birthright. Although the American burger was invented in the Midwest, Los Angeles (specifically Pasadena) is the birthplace of the cheeseburger, created in the 1920’s. Since then, burgers have been as much of a Southern California icon as the palm tree.  Some of the [...]

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Pacific Northwest Staycations: From Wine in Washington to Cable Cars in California

Seattle vivid at dusk

  If you live in the Pacific Northwest you likely already know why those living in other parts of the United States flock to your region. From Washington to Oregon to Northern California, the Northwest boasts varying landscapes that suit every travel personality. So whether you’re looking for mountains, the ocean, wine country or an [...]

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Israel: Adventure Travel in the Holy Land

Rappeling in Machtesh Crater

Israel has rugged adventures for the serious outdoor lover? Oh yes. While most visitors journey to Israel for religious reasons – it is a spiritual destination for not one but three major religions – yet on my trip, I experienced an equally, but altogether different, sacred Israel. Between Israel’s diverse terrain and spiritual significance, it [...]

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Road Trip: South Dakota’s Quirky Roadside Attractions

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The long stretches of desolate road and wide-open spaces of the Wild West have been luring the curious, the dreamers, and the nature enthusiasts since nearly the birth of America. Each summer baby boomers and the retired escape the ordinary by hitting the road to experience the open frontiers—but most likely they’ll pull over for [...]

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