When you need to get away, rejuvenate, and recharge, head out on the open road! A most scenic drive I recommend is a Pacific Coast road trip.
You’ll soon discover that a Pacific Coast road trip boasts stunning views of open and mostly undisturbed countryside, and if time is short, can be done in segments. […]

The City of Columbia was founded in 1818 and is an economical and recreational core for Mid-Missouri. Columbia is located along Hwy 70 and Hwy 63 and is 90 minutes west of St. Louis, Missouri and two hours east of Kansas City, Missouri. As of 2006, Columbia’s population was 91,877 and the combined population, which […]

When the Getty Museum first opened in 1997, the museum’s parking and transportation system were quickly overwhelmed to the point that anyone thinking about visiting the museum had to make parking reservations months in advance. Those unwilling to wait hoofed it for miles and then waited up to four hours just to take a tram […]

While the Ojai Valley Inn and Spa bills itself as a “spa village,” a better description might be Getaway University, with its campus full of activities and honest-to-goodness classes in the finer points of life.
The Ojai Valley Inn is a little off the beaten path, 13 miles off Highway 101 with the exit just north […]

It doesn’t get the attention that Seattle does, or Mount St. Helens or the San Juan Islands, but Washington’s Methow Valley is a traveler’s gem tucked away in the North Cascades about as far away from “civilization” as you can get in the Evergreen State.
For many decades, the town of Winthrop was content to be […]

It’s not hard to see why Lake Arrowhead has always been popular with the movie stars � it’s close to Los Angeles, yet light years away in attitude. The people with money are here, all right, but there is also an element of small-town America, complete with families and, yes, even family values.
We were walking […]

It doesn’t get the attention that Seattle does, or Mount St. Helens or the San Juan Islands, but Washington’s Methow Valley is a traveler’s gem tucked away in the North Cascades about as far away from “civilization” as you can get in the Evergreen State.
For many decades, the town of Winthrop was content to be […]