Desert Dreams Scottsdale delivers plenty of great getaways Posted on Jan. 11, 2017 It’s Friday night in Cave Creek, just outside of Scottsdale, Arizona, where it feels like the whole town has turned out to watch bull riding and mutton busting at the Buffalo Chip Saloon. The crowd hoots and hollers as each pint-sized rider…
Red Hot Hawaii I’ll never forget the way the helicopter bounced around over the red-hot caldera on one of my early visits to the Island of Hawaii. I’m sure it must have been dangerous, but when I looked down into the roiling bowl of molten lava, I was too transfixed to be scared. Then, the…
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…
Insider’s Guide to New York Posted on August 30, 2012 There was a time when I felt overwhelmed by the Big Apple, but after many visits, I now move comfortably around the city without a map and venture beyond the Empire State Building to lesser-known places. This level of confidence is due, in part, to…