The Great Lakes USA take in lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario to provide the world's largest expanse of freshwater. This is the size of continental Europe and includes the states of Illinois, Indiana Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Covering an area of around 95,000 square miles, the Great Lakes USA region is ideal for smal...

The Speakeasy: Age of Scofflaws in San Francisco is an interactive party featuring cocktails, comedy and cabaret show. Excuse me, do you know where I can get my pants tailored? With that simple, yet completely off-topic question, the woman in the blue hat and blue scarf allows us to pass through the door of Joe's Clock Shop after handing us a Treas...

Cycling over the Golden Gate Bridge was the highlight of a long weekend in San Francisco. Of course we're amped. We're cycling over one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. The wind howls, our grip tightens on the handlebars and we peddle harder. My wife, Kerry, and I and our 16-year-old da...

Vacationing where the Wright Brothers invented motorized flight means taking to the air ourselves, fishing, horseback riding and eating barbecue. Just like Orville Wright, I'm flying over the sand dunes of North Carolina's Outer Banks. Orville, the first man to fly a motorized airplane in 1903, accomplished the world-changing feat at nearby Kitty H...

The new Deep South USA guide, which can be read online or ordered, covers the five southern states of Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. The new guide now includes themed itineraries which can be combined to showcase the whole region, with recommendations for t accommodations. Highlights include an introduction to the Deep Sou...

Western Colorado offers some of the most spectacular scenery in this state that overflows with mountain landscapes.  While most visitors travel to Denver and Rocky Mountain National Park in the northeast part of the state, I wanted to see the fall colors that cover Colorado from Grand Junction to Durango.  My travels would also stop in As...