Betty Condon and Tom Butler are checking out a beautifully furnished room that was created for the use of U.S. presidents. Roger Price and Paul Beatty are enjoying a spirited game of tennis. Brothers Charles and Ted Brawner are sharing and comparing tastes at a state-of-the-art brewpub. While none of these experiences might seem to…
Traveling to the Classics: The Best Destinations to Experience Some of Your Favorite Movies
Amid lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, and plenty of sheltering in place, we’ve all become very familiar with our couches and televisions. Over the past year, streaming, internet use, and plain-old TV-watching surged, setting viewership records, as we settled in front of the warming glow of our screens, playing our favorite television series and movies. And the…
Ski Escape: Sunday River, Maine
What’s the cure for a family suffering from a pandemic-fueled case of cabin fever? Road trip! Instead of running from winter’s chill, we decided to drive toward it. As a blizzard was forecast, we drove 5.5 hours northeast from Connecticut to the Sunday River ski resort in Newry, Maine—just before a foot of fresh snow blanketed…
Less Known, but No Less Grand: Mexico’s Copper Canyon
We tottered along a narrow footpath, our packs heavy with our water supply, and looked out into space to our right. From our hiking boots, a short steep slope of grass descended 10 feet, and there the land ended. Far beyond and below that edge, it reappeared, indicating we had quite a high cliff a…
‘Mythical’ Pink Dolphins of the Amazon River Are Real, but Rare; Here’s How You Can Find Them
If you spend much time watching underwater nature documentaries, you might come to know the dolphin as an incredibly intelligent ocean mammal—it’s demeanor, often playful; it’s skin, typically gray. However, one species of dolphin stands out from the norm. Rather than dwelling in the saltwater of the ocean, this dolphin resides in freshwater rivers; rather…
What to Know When You Share a Vacation Rental
It looked so good on paper—a week in a Caribbean villa with my two sisters, their children, and mine. By sharing, we cut costs, gained more space than a hotel room and added such luxuries as a private pool. The rental house in Jamaica, our first villa rental, gave us time to reconnect instead of…
The Omni Mount Washington Resort: ‘An Enchanted Cottage at the Edge of the Wilderness’
February 19, 2021
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In the late afternoon light, the woods of the White Mountain National Forest appear quiet at first, muted by a blanket of soft, fresh snow. All I hear is my own breath and the swish of my cross-country skis as I push my way through the tracks. My husband is ahead of me, trudging up…
Top 5 Places to See First as the World Reopens
The world is big, and beautiful, and awesome—all realities that seem increasingly fanciful and fleeting as we continue to stare at the same four walls each day. But reopening is just around the corner. And as the day nears, when we can finally board an airplane and fly across the globe, it’s worth contemplating this…
Pensacola: Centuries of History and Plenty of Family Fun
The westernmost city in Florida’s Panhandle, Pensacola is barely located within the Sunshine State—it’s hours from hotspots such as Disney World, South Beach, or the Florida Keys—but it’s a perfectly Floridian destination nonetheless. In fact, part of Pensacola’s appeal is the fact that it straddles the border of Alabama, part of Florida on paper, and…
RV Travel During COVID-19
I married a man whose middle name is “go.” He loves to drive and has built-in mental radar, which usually outthinks our GPS. He is fearless, and the more unfamiliar the territory, the more alluring it is to him. One afternoon he came home with a surprise. “Come see what I got!” he said. He…
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