Posted on: 03.01.2010
My boyfriend Carl and I were visiting my aunt and grandma in Jefferson County Missouri last summer. They live in a little rural area and my family all thought it would be the perfect place for a family reunion. I hadn’t been back to visit my grandmother in years and was eager to see her [...]
Posted on: 02.22.2010
If you have made it to the heart of America town of Bloomington Indiana and you are looking for a great place to stay you will find many fantastic accommodations here at www.bloomingtonhotel.net There is a list of great places to stay that will fit all styles and budgets. While you are in the city [...]
Posted on: 02.20.2010
It can be a little more difficult to catch your breath in New York City than in other places, and it’s not necessarily because of the air. For me, it’s difficult to find a place that is not buzzing with excitement, some little nook where adventure or glamour or simply the mad flow of life [...]
Posted on: 02.18.2010
America got a great expansion in 1803 when they bought a large territory from the French. The Louisiana Purchase was made and the French Emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, who made the deal with a little bit of a plan to take down England. He saw the the Unites States forming into a great power that would [...]
Posted on: 02.15.2010
When I was growing up there was only one SeaWorld that I know of and that was in San Diego. Now you can find a room at one of the luxurious San Antonio hotels on this site drop your bags, put on some shorts and head for the SeaWorld in this Texas town. This SeaWorld [...]
Posted on: 02.11.2010
Steve had always considered vacation destinations major cities that spanned the globe. Growing up his parents always loved to travel and instilled this passion in their children. And while he did tour country sides, such as when he spent a full three weeks in Tuscany Italy, he generally oriented his destination to a major city. [...]
Posted on: 01.28.2010
Phoenix is an ever expanding city, with construction projects underway each day of the year, from some of the finest and best Phoenix hotels, to the building of sports arenas and new housing developments. Before a new project is underway however, the archaeologists are called into to excavate and survey the land on which these [...]
Posted on: 01.26.2010
I tried to follow the footsteps of Andy Kaufman in NYC, not with the attempt to become him, but to try to find out what was on his mind. It has been an obsession that’s lasted longer than I would ever care to admit, but that seems to be part of the legacy of trying [...]
Posted on: 01.22.2010
When I am looking to visit a new country, state, city or town, I like to have a good idea of what events took place in the history and who lived there. To me finding a room at one of the modern hotels around Georgia, click here, is like putting myself into such an historical [...]
Posted on: 01.20.2010
While you are getting out from one of the elegant hotels around Greensboro North Carolina you may find yourself on Dolley Madison Road. Would you think of the pre made Dolly Madison baked goods or the wife of the James Madison, forth President of the United States. She was quite the lady and she was [...]
Posted on: 01.18.2010
If I spend a some nights at a some quaint hotels around Hampton and search out the different areas of the Virginia coast would I get a better idea of were Ella Fitzgerald was coming from? It is always my belief that an artist is going to put all there experiences of childhood and adulthood [...]
Posted on: 01.14.2010
Indianapolis is one of those rare places in the world where salsa and real estate might come together in new and interesting, and certainly unexpected, ways. It’s a city that’s famous for representing a version of the heartland of the U.S. that people generally accept. The city is neither too big nor too small, with [...]
Posted on: 01.07.2010
New York was our last stop on a whirl-wind 3-month tour of America. We had purchased our round-trip tickets from Bangkok to New York City, which means we needed to be back in New York to catch our return flight to Thailand. We managed to spend a full week in the city.
We were staying in [...]
Posted on: 01.06.2010
I was up early making sure everything was still in order for my flight to New York City. I double checked all my things and said goodbye to my roommates and took the bus to the airport and caught my flight. When I arrived at the JFK airport, I took the Airport Shuttle to my [...]
Posted on: 12.28.2009
In a lot of the major cities these days, you see a lot of scooters. There’s plenty of good reason for this. With their compact size they can negotiate tight spaces better than just about anything. Some of them get legendary fuel efficiency, and all of them are at least twice as efficient as anything [...]
Posted on: 12.28.2009
On my last trip to Europe, I noted that in Paris the evening meals don’t even begin until around nine or ten in the evening, and the actual night life starts around midnight, and the same, I’m assured, is true of Spain, especially in Sitges. In fact, I’m also told, if you want just a [...]
Posted on: 12.21.2009
It’s a splendid place to begin any new adventure. The Costa Brava has some of the finest beaches in the world, so they say, and there are many opportunities to get distracted from the petty details of life in Malgrat de Mar. Hotel accommodations are always spectacular in this part of the world, but there’s [...]
Posted on: 12.15.2009
Singapore could very well be the perfect spot for a perfect wedding. The attraction for the happy couple is pretty obvious. This is an elegant city with a fantastic urban feel, sensational design, and access to many splendid natural areas, and the tropical feel of the place which offers instant romance to any occasion. Weddings [...]
Posted on: 12.07.2009
Carl had been wanting visit the Balearic Island of Ibiza for as long as he could remember, though he was quite sure the desire to do so went even further back than that. He remembers he older brother talking about a great summer vacation he had taken there years ago and this left such a [...]
Posted on: 12.01.2009
Sorry about being away for so long. We’re having a great time, but we do miss Korea and our friends there. We had 2 great weeks in India. A very cool place, but it was monsoon season, so it was really very wet, all the time. The sun did manage to come out the last [...]
Posted on: 11.30.2009
If you’re searching the world for a romantic weekend, you might do worse than a find a nice quiet spot on Sentosa Island, just off of the city-state of Singapore. You’ll find a number of activities and fine Singapore Sentosa hotels. To begin the day, you might start with breakfast at the hotel. Perhaps a [...]
Posted on: 11.25.2009
Dubai continues to grow in new directions, confirming its place as one of the hottest tourist destinations in the world. Whether it’s the local culture, the international art scene, the world-class shopping, the beaches, the nightlife, or any other of the many spectacular draws, people from all over the world, celebrities to entrepreneurs to artists, [...]
Posted on: 11.24.2009
Home of the famous painter Pablo Picasso and actor Antonio Banderas, Malaga Spain is a beautiful coastal town. Just east of the Strait of Gibraltar, is the Port of Malaga which has been in continuous use since 600 B.C.. From this town of around 250,000 people, travelers can catch a train that would get them [...]
Posted on: 11.24.2009
Anyone who has ever traveled to Barcelona has heard of Antoni Gaudi, the famed architect of La Sagrada Familia, which many consider his masterwork. But he has many other interesting buildings as well, and responsible for making the city one of the key destinations of many travelers. Here’s at least two works which, upon your [...]
Posted on: 11.24.2009
It’s difficult to think of a place that’s a more romantic setting for a romantic getaway than Udaipur. The temples and palaces alone are enough to offer the most splendid sense of otherworldly beauty, and suggest promises of a kind of paradise on earth that is usually only found in fairy tales and story books. [...]
Posted on: 11.23.2009
Delhi has been the home of some notable artist, poets and entertainers for thousands of years. With the rise of Bollywood, the film industry of the country, comes the renewed interest of who are other talented people that belong to India. When visitors check into one of Delhi best hotels, they hope to see and [...]
Posted on: 11.23.2009
On the east bank of the Susquehanna River is Harrisburg, the Capital of Pennsylvania. This old, historic city has been Pennsylvania’s capital since 1812. According to accurate findings, it is believed that as far back as 3000 BC, Native Americans inhabited this area. Captain John Smith was the first white man to have interaction with [...]
Posted on: 11.17.2009
Indonesia is vast and endlessly fascinating, and offers travelers a delicious feast in adventure and excitement. The urban centers are particularly cosmopolitan, with one of the largest cities in the world in Jakarta, and there are many different cultures and traditions that make up the fabric of the everyday here. Even in Bali, which is [...]
Posted on: 11.16.2009
Our 4 days in Ibiza has been one huge party! My girlfriend and I arrive at the Ibiza airport and ever since we put our feet on the ground, we couldn’t get the smiles off our faces. We met another girl while flying here, Margo from Australia, who has been travelling for years and she [...]
Posted on: 11.12.2009
After getting cleaned up, I was back out of my hotel and off to one of the New York business hotels to catch up with an old friend of mine, Brian. It’s been several years since I was last in New York, but Brian hasn’t changed, well except for his new wife, who happens to [...]