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Island Hop
For a quick winter escape, consider one of these island getaways. All offer beautiful beaches, tropical rhythms and (most importantly) easy flights from BWI Airport.
Bahamas Although technically not on the Caribbean Sea, the Bahamas’ blue-green waters and pink sandy beaches will convince you otherwise. More than 2,400 islands and 700 cays beg for exploring. Nassau and Paradise Island attract the tourist throngs, so…more
Bed and Breakfasts
Isn’t it romantic?
Love is in the air... and everywhere around a charming inn owned by romance queen Nora Roberts.
When I heard Nora Roberts had opened a romantic inn, my heart skipped a beat. Queen of the romance novel, Roberts has written more best-sellers than anyone in the world. Of her 190 full-length novels, 164 of them…more
Cruise Vacations
Waltzing Across the Atlantic
Retiree Phil Cooper survives a stint aboard a luxury cruise liner as a ‘gentleman host.’
During my 35 years in the corporate world, I encountered my share of job applications. But the one I filled out in June 2009 was the first that required a dance audition and a photograph of me in a…more
Honeymoon Destinations
Tee for Two
A golf fanatic plays a round at legendary Pebble Beach. But is it worth the $450 greens fee? A duffer's wife tells all.
Standing on the first tee box, we are downright giddy, giggling and snapping photos like two school kids who’ve just arrived in Disneyland. We try to be cool, nonchalant, but it isn’t easy. After a lifetime of anticipation, a…more
International Adventures
Around The World in (almost) 80 Days
For 20 years, Sparks resident and ‘green’ builder Polly Bart dreamed of seeing faraway places, pursuing her passion for spirituality, women’s issues and sustainable living, and having a grand adventure. After turning 65 last year, she made her dream come true.
For most of my life, the world was flat to me, bounded by California on the west and Turkey on the east, the farthest points to which I’d ever traveled. Now, after 14 plane trips, eight currencies and 24…more
Luxury Inns
The Royal Treatment
The grandest of grande dame resorts, The Greenbrier, gets a makeover fit for a queen.
Have I morphed into Alice peering through a looking glass in some fantastical dream? Did Lady Gaga and Martha Stewart join forces to create this Technicolor decor before me? Or is this outrageousness really a reality— a magical transformation…more
Regional Getaways
Eats for the Ages
An exhibit at the National Archives and a pop-up restaurant nearby offer the chance to explore America’s culinary past, bite by bite.
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson smuggled rice out of Italy in his coat pockets— a crime punishable by death at the time? Or that from the mid-1800s to the 1930s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture dispatched “plant hunters”…more
Spa Getaways
4 Days in Heaven
Feeling like your sex life with your partner has become ho-hum? 'Sex School' at the beautiful Miraval Spa and Resort in Arizona might be just what the doctor ordered.
So, how’s your sex life?” asks the engaging voice on the other end of the line. No, the guy on the phone is not a pervert. Ever since my husband, Terry, and I signed up for “Partners, Pleasure and…more
Urban Escapes
I’ll take Manhattan... again
Senior editor Sarah Gilbert Fox visits a pair of classic Big Apple hotels— one old, one new.
I spent my summers as a kid on the steamy streets of New York City. Dive-bombing the unsuspecting below with seltzer water from our 6th-floor apartment. Eating what was then considered exotic Chinese food and daring my dad to…more
Beaches
Beachy Keen
Our annual roundup of new stores and restaurants at the shore.
> Party Time “People have been calling us ‘Starboard North,’” says Conch Island Key West Bar and Grill general manager John Wallden, referring to the classic Dewey Beach bar. Indeed, since its springtime opening, Conch Island has become party…more
