With so much art to admire and so many canals to cross in Venice, I wasn’t sure I’d have time for brunch on the remote Venetian island of Torcello. But my friend insisted that dining at Locanda Cipriani was a glorious experience not to be missed. I’m so happy I took her advice. Here’s a link to my story about that visit to Torcello and its iconic restaurant, which appeared recently in Live in Italy magazine.
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Fireworks over the Grand Canal on New Year’s Eve. A lavish brunch of pasta and Prosecco on New Year’s Day at an iconic restaurant on the island of Torcello. All that and more was on the agenda of our girls’ trip to Venice in December 2021. Covid-19 infection rates were finally waning. We were vaccinated, boosted, and ready to bust out of quarantine when my friend and Italophile Corky organized our trip last summer Then, a Covid variant ominously called omicron began surging....
Old-world architecture and charm draw visitors to St. Augustine — and there is plenty to see and do in this historic city on Florida’s northeast Atlantic Coast. But a key reason people keep coming back is the food. To learn about four restaurants in St. Augustine where you can sample the cuisine of this historic but thoroughly modern city, please read the rest of my story in Travel Weekly here.
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Three ornate Victorian turrets top a mansard roof at the Renaissance St. Augustine hotel. Multiple porches wrap around the sprawling three-story structure, which is painted in as many pastel colors as you’ll find in the local ice cream parlor. This popular seaside town on Florida’s northeast Atlantic Coast is the oldest continuously populated city in the U.S. and thus takes its history seriously. … You can read my full story about the Renaissance St. Augustine Hotel in Travel Weekly here.
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When we planned our trip to hike the Big Five national parks in Utah last May, we picked St. George as our last stop because it was a short drive to Zion National Park. This small city in the southwest corner of the state was also within just a couple hours drive of Las Vegas, where we would catch a flight back home. We were so surprised by how beautiful the area around St. George was that we put our hiking boots back on....
During the peak of the coronavirus pandemic last summer, a road trip to the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall, Texas, provided welcomed relief — even in the middle of a Texas heat wave. You can read about my road trip in the December 2020 issue of Food, Wine, Travel Magazine, starting on page 70.
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Trout are plentiful but elusive in the fast-flowing Green River in western Wyoming. Anglers from big cities on the West and East Coasts arrive every summer by private jet to stay at rustic ranches in the shadow of the snow-capped Wind River Mountains. They rise early to cast fanciful, hand-tied flies into the clear emerald water in hopes of hooking an inquisitive cutthroat. Fishing was not what drew mountain men, Native American Indians and traders to the lush Green River Valley nearly 200 years ago....
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