For a spectacular family nature escape, look no farther than Mammoth Lakes in California. This picturesque vacation destination offers travelers a stimulating scenic atmosphere where they can learn more about myriad outdoor activities. Our family had the pleasure of partaking in a glorious skiing, snowmobiling, and tubing getaway in Mammoth during springtime that delivered all…
Secluded Smith Island Is Living at Its Best
Talk about hometown pride! When I asked a grizzled waterman who lives on Smith Island, Maryland, if he’d like to accompany me to one of the community’s other nearby villages, he replied “Nope, I’ve already been there.” While the twinkle in his eyes suggested he wasn’t completely serious, the fact is that residents of Smith…
A Superior Scenic Byway
March 31, 2021
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Undeveloped beaches like sculpture gardens with pale sand, colored pebbles, and tangles of weathered driftwood. Cold and moody waters that can appear turquoise, deep blue, slate gray, or even muddy red. They change without notice: waves cresting white and angling like a blade into shore, then smoothing to glass and mirroring billowy white clouds, until…
5 Great Places to Go Glamping
Has there ever been a better moment in history for glamping? The experience offers all the joy of camping with very few of its drawbacks—the creature comforts we all crave but in a setting that puts us in closer touch with nature and the wide-open spaces of the world around us. Plus, it’s an ideal…
Relive the Past at Museums, Diners, Drive-ins, and More
Louis Kaplan is channeling his childhood. As a youngster he collected baseball cards, which he stored in boxes and treasured as souvenirs of America’s favorite pastime. Decades later he’s reliving that time while visiting the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. Opportunities to recapture memories from the past aren’t limited…
Gardens Around the Country Celebrate Spring
Spring has sprung, and summer will soon arrive. If you’re a flower gardener—and the National Gardening Association estimates that members of more than a third of American households are—you already may have begun to till soil and plant seeds. If you enjoy gardens more by watching than working, however, now is the time to plan…
South Carolina’s Low Country: Grand Homes, Complex History
The South Carolina low country, the region along the state’s coast, immediately conjures up images of live oak trees dripping with Spanish moss, wildlife that flourishes in the dense marshland, fresh seafood, grits, and platefuls of gumbo or good barbecue. But in addition to its natural beauty and culinary appeal, the South Carolina low country…
Exploring Another World in Key West
If there’s anywhere in the continental United States that’s a true getaway from reality, it’s Key West. One of the funkiest towns in the country, this small tropical island—the last in the Florida Keys archipelago—follows the beat of its own drum, to say the least. In fact, Key West proved its fierce independence by declaring…
Riding the Rails in Japan—Across the Country, and Deep Into History
The train is on time—because the train is always on time. And, I don’t have a seat. After getting slightly turned around disembarking my train from Hiroshima, which got me here in a real hurry, I’m struggling to make my connection. Dashing down onto the proper platform, I hear the rumble and clang of the…
Find Fish, Kitsch, and Wildlife in the Florida Keys
One afternoon while visiting the Florida Keys I photographed my wife, Fyllis, swimming with stingrays and other denizens of the sea in a huge tank of water, then shoving live fish through an opening in a Plexiglas wall to feed hungry sharks on the other side. Driving back to our temporary home away from home,…
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