Hyatt Highlands Inn, Carmel Highlands, California An article I read today about Leading Hotels of the World members stated average room rate for 2007 was $470 per night for these luxury hotel members. http://www.breakingtravelnews.com/article/20080208114856638 $8 Cups of Beer! Pinch Me,
Choice Privileges points are the only hotel points I place sufficient value in to buy and hoard a large stash when the purchase price is right. On May 15, 2019 Daily Getaways sales and Kids First Auction sales allowed me
The first week of April in Oslo meant snow-covered hills around Oslo Airport on the 50 km train ride to the city and limited appearance of green buds on trees once in Oslo city center. Still, the clear sky and
I’ll preface this piece with a Spud Hilton line I heard at several TBEX travel writing conferences, “Nobody wants to read about your travels.†For me, the aspect I so often have a hard time determining when trying to get
Miami is a city to keep an eye on for low fares to Europe as a subtle fare war has been happening there for the past month with very low fares like $330 round trip to Brussels nonstop with Jetairfly
One of the best opportunities in this battle over Miami between American/Iberia and United/Swiss/Lufthansa are fares down to $593 for flights from Miami to Barcelona or Madrid and low $600s to dozens of other airports on the Iberian Peninsula with
Vancouver Island still has old growth forest in danger of being logged. I only scratched the surface of the logging industry while touring Vancouver Island driving about 500 miles through forest lands. Nearly all the forest I saw were second
As I was writing this piece, I realized that I have spent the last three Christmas holidays at beach resort locations in Miami and San Diego soaking up the sun in warm air with temperatures in the 70s and 80s.
Last month I passed through the Outer Banks island of Ocracoke, North Carolina for about eight hours. A 7:00am Cedar Island ferry ride to the village of Ocracoke where I stayed several hours, followed by a fourteen-mile long island road
Like most visitors to Charleston, South Carolina, a trip to Fort Sumter was high on my list of tourist destinations. There is one concessionaire for getting a boat to the island in Charleston Harbor where the Fort Sumter National Monument
