Category: US TRAVEL

  • FLORIDA’S HISTORIC FISHING VILLAGE

    FLORIDA’S HISTORIC FISHING VILLAGE

    The beach is the first thing most folks notice about Destin. The sparkling white sand is so soft and fluffy that it squeaks when you walk on it. The fine quartz crystals were once the rocky mountaintops of the Appalachians, washed away by eons of rain and rivers, and settled along this shore by clear…

  • OAHU ROAD FOOD

    OAHU ROAD FOOD

    Northshore ramblings work up a big appetite. Amid the bucolic farmland of Oahu, you may have difficulty finding a place to eat. No fear. Check out the road food stands. Mike’s Huli chicken dishes up smoked poultry or pork (cooked over kiawe wood) with one of the best views around. Its address is 47-525 Kamehameha Highway, Kaneohe,…

  • BUCKING OUT OF TRADITIONAL FESTIVALS

    BUCKING OUT OF TRADITIONAL FESTIVALS

    You may have been to a rodeo before, and that’s good. Here’s one that will buck you out of your comfort zone: the Angola Prison Rodeo. Yes, prison. Why would you want to go to a prison? Well, curiosity for one reason. I’d never been on a prison ground before. And this one, the largest prison in…

  • THE GREENBRIER ABOVE WATER

    THE GREENBRIER ABOVE WATER

    I recently spent three days at the fabled Greenbrier Hotel. The showers ran cold, the elevators were out, and I wound up sitting on the hallway floor eating a soggy salad from a takeout container and drinking red wine from a paper cup. Yet I learned more about hospitality from my stay than I have…

  • MAKING DREAMS COME TRUE

    MAKING DREAMS COME TRUE

    Recently I fulfilled a decades-long dream: I played a round of golf at Pinehurst Golf Club in North Carolina. Now I’m not the best golfer out there–or the worst. I probably played better than the other three in my foursome. But I played. I chipped onto the same greens that Payne Stewart chipped onto, and I…