Junk, Junk and Fun: City Museum, St. Louis
The generically named, City Museum is anything but a generic museum. This St. Louis museum is more like a fun house or carnival than a museum.Made almost...
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Penalizing the Single Traveler
The math is simple but deceptive: If a hotel room cost two hundred bucks, that’s a hundred bucks per person, because hotels assume two people...
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Dude Ranches for Families
When 180 horses’ hooves pounded the ground a few feet from me, manes flaring and breaths misting ghost-like in the chill Colorado mountain air, this city boy was transfixed.It was the 5:30...
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How Guys Travel
Give a guy a choiceWould he prefer a major sporting event like the Super Bowl, front-row seats at a major musical event like a U2 concert in London … or spending a week in Hawaii or...
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How Come I Didn’t Know That! Avoiding Cultural Snafus
OK, you’re lucky enough to be in Italy…and you’ve actually been invited to a dinner party.So, when in Rome do as the Romans do:...
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Are Teen Spas Self-Indulgent?
The “Teen Spa Program” at Pinehurst Resort (Pinehurst Village, North Carolina) is designed “to reduce teen stress through aromatherapy, massage, soothing music.”“We...
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Pay To Pee?
When the airlines started charging for everything from pillows to soft drinks and baggage, many of us, facetiously, wondered out loud when the airline would start...
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Banning Kids From Flying
Most Americans aren’t anti-kids. Just the ones that fly it seems. A recent on line chat had a curmudgeonly majority of flyers saying kids don’t belong on planes....
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