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Hawaii Holidays with the Kids You won’t be able to build a snowman or roast chestnuts on an open fire, but Hawaii offers heaps of holiday spirit and endless opportunities for family fun. If this is the year you’ve decided to skip shopping, wrapping, and decorating, and hang out with your kids instead —…
Airbnb It’s the “greatest phenomenon happening in travel today.” It’s part of the sharing economy. It’s an adventure. It’s just for twenty-somethings. It’s exotic. It’s confusing. It’s scary. To some extent, each of these statements is true — and not true. Some Ranch & Coast readers told me they’ve already stayed at an Airbnb…
“Won’t you miss the seasons?” several friends inquired when I told them I was moving to San Diego. At first I thought they were joking. “The seasons” were my reason for leaving the Midwest. Winter snow, spring monsoons, and summer heat — I didn’t have to think twice about trading those seasons for beaches, an…
Nubby coral islands and cerulean sea spread out below and beyond us as we traveled to Fiji’s Yasawa Islands. I was grateful that our seaplane was traveling low and slow because I needed time to ponder this heart meltingly gorgeous sight. How could I have forgotten how beautiful this place is, the voice in my…
Opera under the stars They’re waiting for you — Don Pasquale, Carmen, Fidelio and others. They know you love opera and you’ve never seen it performed on a world-class stage in the middle of nowhere. Seriously, I’ve seen Don Pasquale before, but never a performance that would compare with the open-air version…
In California, we celebrate our surf culture year round — and especially this month with special events from San Diego to Santa Cruz. Chasing Dora, a documentary about three surfers who travel to South Africa to test a radical theory “thrown down” by surf rebel Miki Dora, will be shown at the Mingei Museum in…
10 Years of Terrific Trips Posted on July 30, 2014 It’s true. Time does go fast when you’re having fun. Ten years ago this issue, I became the travel editor of Ranch & Coast. I was honored, and excited about writing for such a sophisticated and well-traveled audience. In my first few articles, I relied…
Did Match.com — or friends or fate — help you find the perfect mate? Congratulations! Wedded bliss awaits. But first there’s the matter of a ceremony, probably a reception, and quite possibly a honeymoon. If you love to travel (doesn’t everyone?), these elements can be creatively combined into one magnificent excursion. Destination weddings —…
Since “April showers bring May flowers,” this is a good time to include garden visits in your upcoming trips. Throughout the Northern Hemisphere, spring displays include budding trees and colorful blooms from bulbs that lay dormant all winter. Here are some of my favorite places to enjoy this month’s botanical bounty. Chicago: After enduring…
I wanted to take a trip after the holidays, but the polar vortex made many of my favorite places unappealing. Instead, I took advantage of our great local weather and traveled within sunny San Diego County. First Stop: Coronado It’s only two miles across the bridge, but somehow Coronado feels a world away from…
When it comes to cruising, getting there is a big part of the fun — but exploring the destination is also exciting. In Hawaii, the sightseeing starts when you sail along the coast of the Big Island and see multi-story clouds of steam where hot lava from the Kilauea Volcano enters the cold ocean.…
In search of the famed Aurora Borealis, we ended up discovering much more in America’s “Last Frontier” On my first night in Fairbanks, Alaska, I stood outside at one o’clock in the morning and stared up at the dark sky. The temperature was about 20 degrees. I waited and watched, but the Aurora Borealis…
Georgia O’Keeffe invited me to the Adirondacks. I’ve long admired the paintings she did around Lake George, New York, where she and Alfred Stieglitz spent part of each year from 1918 to 1934. These include images of bold barns, bowls of red apples, and — of course — voluptuous flowers. When I learned that…
Travel Editor Elizabeth Hansen taps a local expert to explore the Ecuadorian capital