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By Marc Atchison
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MIAMI – It’s
not yet 9 a.m. but already every table in Domino Park is filled with Cuban men
getting ready to spend another day playing their favourite game.
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By Karen Asp
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 TABERNASH, COLORADO - The sign I see as I’m
about to glide out on a cross-country trail puts me a little on edge: “ Bears, moose and mountain lion in
this area
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By Marc Atchison
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 DALLAS – I peer through the window of history and see a painful memory in the reflection.
Suddenly I’m staring back on November 22, 1963 – the day before my birthday. I’m sitting in our living room watching television when the words BULLETIN, BULLETIN flash on the screen.
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By Marc Atchison
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 SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA – I arrive at what’s called “the loudest hole in golf” and I’m greeted by silence. The legendary 16th on the Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale, where just a few days earlier over 30,000 boisterous fans filled every seat of the grandstand they erect annually for the Phoenix open, is eerily silent when I arrive.
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By Cynthia Dial - TraveLife Contributor
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 GUAM, SOUTH PACIFIC - I’m embarrassed to admit that before travelling to Guam I knew very little of the destination. My limited knowledge: Guam is a U. S. Territory, a tropical island in the Pacific and closer to Asia than North America.
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By Karen Asp
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 SAN FRANCISCO - It's not that I forgot how hilly San Francisco is. But
I'm a sucker for walking so when I arrived in the city to learn that I
had only a .long walk from the BART train station to the Huntington
Hotel where I was staying, I thought no sweat. I'd been warned to take a
cab, but I'm a marathon girl.
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By Marc Atchison
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 DALLAS – Stephanie Hutson wants to show me the treasures locked behind the cellar door at the bottom of the twisted staircase in the old Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek. But she’s forgotten the key. |
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By Marc Atchison
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 SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA - Come winter on the
Prairies, when temperatures dip below -40ºC for long stretches and the need for
warm weather reaches fever pitch, many westerners pack their saddle bags and
head south to Canada's 11th province Arizona.
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By Marc Atchison
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 DALLAS – We walk up the winding staircase in the old DeGolyer mansion and push open a door at the top of the stairs.
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By Marc Atchison
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 SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA – Sedona … Sonoma?
Why is it I always get those two like-sounding city names mixed up, I ask to the man pouring me a glass of wine at a trendy Scottsdale restaurant called FnB?
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By Marc Atchison
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ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA — It’s still 20 minutes before 11 (a.m.) when we hop in our VW Bug rental car and make a bee line for this city’s eclectic River Arts District, where Asheville’s landmark 12 Bones Smokehouse restaurant is located.
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By Cynthia Dial
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MOUNT VERNON, VA. — On a lukewarm Kentucky evening beneath a full moon, crickets chirp and a trio of musical locals sings bluegrass. The setting is a wrap-around porch. You’re rocking in a chair and sipping fine bourbon. It’s a made-for-movie moment — one guaranteed to wash down any laundry day blues.
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By Janice Lees
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 FT. LAUDERDALE, FLA. — A lace curtain blows out of an upper floor window at a green-trimmed house on Riverwalk Promenade. The event intrigues my guide Jennifer. |
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By Claudia Tsang
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 Some people howled when Jim Wilson announced plans to create a beach for dogs at beautiful Fort Desoto Park. The hair stood up on the back of their necks when it became clear Wilson’s pet project would be located near to the “best” human beach in the United States. |
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By Marc Atchison
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 MEADOWS OF DAN, VA. – It’s not an exaggeration to say The Lodge at Primland Resort and Spa offers guests an “out of this world” experience. |
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By Marc Atchison
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SANTA ROSA ISLAND, FLA.—It’s with a heavy heart we watch what man’s carelessness can cause as wave-after-wave of oil from BP’s Gulf of Mexico well disaster spills up on the shores of some of America’s most beautiful beaches and into its treasured wetlands.
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By Travelife Staff
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 10 tips that will make you a winner before you even reach the casinos. TraveLife’s June Kuniyoshi has been a regular visitor to “The Strip” for the past decade and shares her inside info on everything from cheap hotels and restaurants to $9-a-day rental cars
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 WILMINGTON, N.C. - There are few cities in America as lovely and charming as this Southern Belle.
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By Cynthia Dial
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 Designed for those who take pampering seriously, Grand Del Mar pays healthy homage to the pleasure principle. After sharing your name at the gated entry, a leisurely drive alongside the golf course delivers you to the porte-cochere entrance where your initial taste of exclusivity is a well-coiffed doorman who’ll seamlessly deliver you to your home for the night. From the start, it’s clear that even non-VIPers get top-notch service here. |
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 PENSACOLA, FLA. — In his younger years, Denis “Deej” Kiely was every bit a Top Gun fighter pilot as the one Tom Cruise portrayed in the iconic film.
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 MIAMI BEACH – My impatience with the lack of attention being paid our table at Jerry’s Famous Deli in trendy South Beach was beginning to show when a server came up from behind and assured me: “I’ll be right with you, sir.”
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 MOUNT AIRY, N.C. - Fans of the old Andy Griffith Show will surely remember the lovable town tippler named Otis who would lock himself in jail when he went on a bender. |
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By Marc Atchison
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 SAN FRANCISCO - A fine Pacific mist was dampening the tourists’ spirits as they huddled together waiting for the Powell-Hyde cable car to come and rescue them.
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By Marc Atchison
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 HONOLULU, HAWAII - The day we decided to explore Oahu by car started like most others on this, the most populated of all the Hawaiian islands – with a beam a sunshine punching through some low-lying clouds.
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By Marc Atchison
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 NEW YORK - It’s not even lunchtime and already the sidewalk outside the Carnegie deli is lined with patrons, mostly tourists, waiting to get a seat in the landmark restaurant at 55th and 7th.
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By Marc Atchison
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 CHARLOTTE, N.C. - It was around noon when our US Airways flight touched down at Charlotte’s International Airport. It was closer to 1 p.m. by the time we collected our rental car and headed out on I-77.
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By Marc Atchison
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 MOUNT AIRY, N.C. - The man walking towards us along North Main St., was whistling a familiar tune. It’s one you hear being whistled a lot in this sleepy little town nestled in the shadow of the stunningly beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.
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By Anne Clark
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 SAN FRANCISCO - It was a day of wine and roses which began with me looking at the sun rise over the Bay Bridge and then watching it turn the Golden Gate Bridge a brilliant orange before dipping into the tranquil Pacific Ocean.
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 SAN FRANCISCO, CA - A fine Pacific mist was dampening the tourists’ spirits as they huddled together waiting for the Powell-Hyde cable car to come and rescue them.
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