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The past couple of weeks I have been thinking about FireLake Grill House at Radisson Blu Mall of America. I stayed at the hotel in February 2014 for the Radisson Americas Conference, courtesy of Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group. That was my fifth year attending the annual conference. I missed the 2015 conference. FireLake Grill House…
by Ric Garrido
Today I updated the Loyalty Traveler Trips and Destinations page with 24 articles from my Norway trip last month and 12 articles from Minneapolis in February. I added some articles for Iowa and Chicago too. From a blog perspective, pages are the static pages that are always listed on the home page. I have three pages on…
This is a two-part post on Mill City Museum and Mill Ruins District of Minneapolis. This piece is about the area outside Mill City Museum on the Mississippi River and the second part is the museum experience and story. Between February snowstorm days in Minneapolis on my 5-day visit, I found one cold, clear day…
One of the common features I have seen in many American cities over the past few decades is urban renewal through reconstruction of 19th and 20th century buildings designed for the industrial age into public residential and commercial places and spaces designed for the needs of the new millennium. My home town of Monterey, California…
by Ric Garrido
Hundreds of runners stripped down to the legally bare essentials in Minneapolis today and briefly transformed the downtown commercial center of Minneapolis into a street party. Cupid’s Undie Run is a charity fundraising event for the Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF), the world’s largest non-government organization dedicated to ending Neurofibromatosis (NF) through research. Currently, there is…
The irony of being a travel writer is I do not like to read travel guides and plan out my itinerary before going to a city in the USA. I prefer to arrive and simply get a feel for the place. I am an impressionist traveler. As a school age kid growing up in different…
A hot winter day in California is not the type of weather conditions you would think create flight delays. Basically, yesterday was like summer weather in coastal California. My flight was delayed from Monterey to San Francisco due to fog. Typically fog delays are more of a summer months issue. I learned from experience to…
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