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 Want
to visit fun places but you are not sure what to see there?
How about taking a tour that is like having a friend along who
knows that city well to guide you. You can do that for under
$5 now. Here's some fun and informative tours at Tours4Mobile.
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Kathleen Walls
 Nemacolin Woodlands Resort located on
200,000 scenic acres in the Laurel Highlands of Southwestern
Pennsylvania can fulfill all of your dreams. We
stayed there last year for a Mid-Atlantic Travel Public
Relations Alliance (MATPRA) Convention. This is far beyond its
five-star rating. It's more than a hotel. It's a resort in the
broadest sense of the word. Read
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by Kathleen Walls
 National Butterfly Center in Mission,
Texas, a small town near the southern border, is a modern day
Garden of Eden. It is a favorite spot not only for butterflies
but birds and other wildlife species. This 100-acre preserve
is the largest native plant botanical garden in the country.
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Renée S. Gordon
 Lisbon is so filled with activities, fine cuisine and
wines that it is difficult for visitors to tear
themselves away from the city but I assure you there are
wonders throughout the country. Some of Portugal’s
most historic sites and monuments, as well as unique
experiences, are to be found within a day’s drive of
Lisbon and the small cities and quaint villages provide
glimpses into the heart of the country. You can opt to
rent a vehicle or book a Gray Line tour to one or more
of these destinations. Read
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Anne Jenkins
 Travel with a purpose makes it more exciting, fun
and interesting, whether you're on an antique junket,
looking for art or exploring local food. If you ask a
group of New Mexicans where to find the best green chile
cheese burger, you better have time for a long
discussion. Read more
Renée S. Gordon
 Portugal
is the westernmost country in Europe and, along with Spain,
makes up the Iberian Peninsula. It is bordered by the Atlantic
Ocean on the south and west, with 500-miles of ocean coastline
and is the approximate size of Maine. The country’s geography
shaped its more than 800-year history and culture and
continues to affect tourism.
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by Kathleen Walls
 Becker Farms in Gasport, New York,
just a short drive from Niagara Falls is the kind of place
every community needs. Imagine farm fresh and U-pick produce
coupled with locally produced beer and wine. Add to that
rental cabin for a romantic weekend and all kinds of events
and you have a perfect agri tourism spot.
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Renee S. Gordon
 President
George Washington surveyed and chose a location on the Potomac
River to become the permanent site of the nation's capital and
the 1790 Residence Act made his dream a reality. He
commissioned Pierre L'Enfant to design the city. L'Enfant
tired for one-year then he abandoned the project taking his
plans with him. Benjamin Banneker, a free African American,
recreated those plans from memory so that the work could
continue. Read
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Renee S. Gordon
 The
thing about Icons is that we somehow expect them to be
arrested in time and evoke our feelings In the same way
forever. They do not disappoint and they certainly do
not succumb to the lure of changing times. This can
prove daunting for artists, structures and, most of all,
cities. Asbury Park, New Jersey has managed to strike the
perfect balance between memory and modernization, retro and
revitalization and is a wonderful destination for families,
group or solo getaways, beach lovers and music aficionados.Read
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KathleenWalls
 Jacksonville's skyline is changed
forever. The old city hall imploded this morning. No, it
wasn't terrorists. It was done to make way for new
improvements coming to Jacksonville. Story has a link to the
actual implosion from one of our local stations.
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Kathleen Walls
 When
fickle sixteen year old Agnes Scuffs jilted her fiancee on the
eve of their wedding, she set in motion a series of events
that would lead to the construction of a monument comparable
to Stonehenge. She informed Ed Leedskalnin that he was too old
and too poor for her. Broken hearted, Ed left his native
Latvia and settled near Florida City. He began carving a
memorial to his lost love who he always referred to as "Sweet
Sixteen".
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by Kathleen Walls
 You know a city has come of age when
they repurpose a classic piece of their history. Detroit has
done just that with the new Foundation Hotel. It opened the
100-room boutique hotel in May 2017 in what was once in the
Detroit Fire Department headquarters. The building that is now
the hotel was built in 1929, but this location housed fire
equipment from 1840 until the Detroit Fire Department
abandoned it in 2013. The end result is a blend of museum, art
gallery, upscale dining and lodging with a touch of a local
hangout. Read
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by Kathleen Walls
 A
road trip down Georgia’s I-75 from Tennessee to Florida
offers lots of fun stops along the way. Navigating I-75
through Georgia can be a nightmare. Or it can be fun. The
difference is in finding good food and interesting
attractions with convenient stops en-route. Read more
by Anne Jenkins
 Early in October you're
standing among hundreds on a historic Main Street watching
two long lines of enthusiatic citizens, in groups of three.
Each group is holding up a ski with three attached shot
glasses topped up with whisky, all trying to drink it at the
same time. Pinch yourself, you're in Utah. Park City, to be
exact, and they're engaged in a friendly rivalry with
Breckenridge, Colorado to see who can get in to the Guiness
Book of Records in 2018 for the “Shotski Challenge”. Park
City won. Breckenridge swears to rise to the challenge in
2019. Everyone has a grand time and lots of money is raised
for local charities.
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By Renee S. Gordon
 Louisiana is
internationally famous for its Cajun and Creole cuisine and
generally Chef Paul Prudhomme is credited for its
introduction and popularization into the American
mainstream. You can literally find great food everywhere in
the state but ground zero for fresh, locally sourced,
regional dishes is the Lake Charles area in Southwest
Louisiana (SWLA). Here visitors can craft a special
experience and soak up the history that led to this unique
culture as well as dive into the adventure, music, art,
festival, beverage and dining scenes. Read
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by Tom Straka Photographs by Pat Straka
 Back in the
Fall 2014 we visited Cave-in-Rock, Illinois, on the edge of
the Ohio River where a free ferry crosses over to Kentucky.
It is a favorite route of ours and an especially fun
alternative that avoids the interstate, facilitating a
cross-state route (the long way) on mainly U.S. highways.
We’ve covered the history and geology of the location in the
past issue, but missed a key aspect that makes the stop even
more attractive. So attractive, we’ve
revisited it. Read
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by Kathleen Walls
 It's so nice when a
historic building gets refurbished for a new use. Such is
the case in Pittsburgh. The Drury Plaza Hotel was once the
Federal Reserve Bank of Pittsburgh. The Georgia marble
faced Art Deco building began life in 1931 and was bought
by the hotel in 2013 and began renovations in 2014. The
Drury has kept many of the historic features. Read
more
Story by Tom Straka
Photos by Pat Straka
 My spell checker tells
me I have two suspicious words in the title. It has not
heard of turpentining or a catface. Many of the readers
can probably figure out what the former means, but I bet
they don’t know what the latter is. There are lots of
festivals across the country which provide a travel
adventure immersed in local history and folk culture. The
CatfaceTurpentine Festival held annually in early October
in Portal, Georgia is one of those. Read
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by Renee S. Gordon
 Musical symphonies are
composed of individual movements, distinct sections, written
to be played by a large orchestra. Haydn and Mozart are
credited with creating the classical symphonic arrangement
and later composers have layered the form with creativity
and innovations. Royal Caribbean’s newest cruise ship, the
aptly named Symphony of the Seas, has deftly blended all
aspects of the perfect cruise into one awesome experience
much like an orchestral arrangement.
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Chuckwagon Roundup
by Kathleen Walls 11-29-2018
 Food is an intricate part
of Cajun culture.
Café Vermillionville, (circa 1835) was built as an inn
for salesmen in Lafayette then named Vermillionville. During
a Union occupation during the Civil war supposedly a Cajun
shot a Union soldier for making advances at the man's wife.
Rumors claim the old building is still haunted by the
soldier as well a young female ghost. Read
more
War Roads
by Kathleen Walls 11-29-2018
 Long before United States
was born, there was a world war. It started in the American
colonies and spread across Europe. There it was called the
Seven Years' War.Read more
Renee's Road
by Renee S. Gordon
11-29-2018
 While academic
programming may be considered the most important factor in
selecting a college, also essential to success are both the
campus and local culture. College tours are an excellent way
to experience a slice...Read
more
by Kathleen Walls
11-29-2018
 Saxonburg,
Pennsylvania is a beautiful example of what one
immigrant can do for this country. John Roebling and his
brother, Carl, came here in 1832 to escape totalitarian
conditions in Germany.
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Civil Rights Trail
by Kathleen Walls
11-29-2018
 Pittsburgh has so much history related
to the Underground Railroad. Senator John Heinz History
Center has an exhibit, From Slavery to Freedom, that tells
the story...read
more
Fork in the Road
by Kathleen Walls 11-29-2018
 Say “sandwich” in Pittsburgh and it
conjures up a different image than anywhere else in the
world. In Pittsburgh, a sandwich is often a Primanti
created by Joe Primanti during the depression. ... read
more
Renee's Road
By
Renee S. Gordon
11-29-2018
 At
the end of August in 1619 the White Lion landed
at Old Point Comfort, in what is now Hampton, Virginia,
and exchanged “20 and odd negroes” for food and supplies.
These Angolan ... Read more
Innroads
By Kathleen Walls
11-29-2018
 First
Colony Inn is the perfect place to immerse yourself in
Outer Banks history while enjoying all the modern
conveniences. Lost Colony Inn is not luxurious but it is
comfortable and so welcoming. ...
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more
Renee's
Road
By
Renee S. Gordon
11-29-2018
 The
Buffalo-Niagara Corridor in Western New York has the
distinction of having always been both a permanent
sanctuary and a reliable embarkation point. Geography,
accessibility to the Falls and ...
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more
Happy Trails
By
Thomas Straka 9-1-2018
 One of the
best attractions along Interstate 81 is the Natural
Bridge of Virginia. Early in the nation’s history,
Hudson River School artists painted the landscapes of
America’s most iconic natural scenes. These are the
large landscapes that hang in the U.S. and state
capitols. The Natural Bridge, Virginia,
painted by Frederic Edwin Church, is one of them. That
landscape is little-changed from 1852 when he painted
it... Read more
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