A Pertinent Reminder in Sanibel, Fla. One would think that not tormenting nearby alligators would be intuitive, but, apparently, those without common sense need to be reminded. Life in the wild and all. —Lori Tripoli Note from the Brawny Sherpa: When your wife is preparing to go out for a lovely dinner and you want…
Tag: Florida
Escape from New York to Key Biscayne, FL
Chilled in New York, the Bashful Adventurer flees to Key Biscayne, FL–but will all the bright skies and warm weather prove too tantalizing?
Key Biscayne Unbudgeted: A Stay at the Ritz-Carlton
When It Absolutely, Positively Has to Be High-End I will forever regret missing out on what would have been my first trip to Venice, Italy. A friend and I were alternating hotel qualities: one day slumming it, the next day staying in a nicer place. The day we were supposed to head to Venezia was…
Searching for Gable and Lombard at the Park Central
The Bashful Adventurer finds old Miami on a visit to the Park Central Hotel before its renovation
Amusement Park Politics
I don’t know how many times I visit Florida’s Epcot before I realize Russia and former Soviet-bloc countries are not represented in its World Showcase pavilions. France and the UK most certainly are on its map, as are Mexico, Morocco, even China. But where is Russia? Czech Republic? Latvia? It turns out that back in…
On Lake Vacations
If I live on a lake, do I really need to vacation at a different one?, I wonder as the Brawny Sherpa, the Bonus Adventurers, and I jump into the car and head north toward Lake George, N.Y. I laughed when a Manhattan-based editor asked me whether, as a resident of a more rural part…
August Anywhere: Beaches
Mid-Mid-August, end-of-summer, work slowdown, mind elsewhere, vacation, a break, who can concentrate? I am here, but my head is at the beach. —Lori Tripoli Planning a beach vacation? Consider these destinations: Gulf Getaway: Oasis in Condo-Land Biscayne, Largo, West My Kind of Camp: The Jersey Shore Stay in a Sandcastle on Coney Island
Life and Death at the Key West Cemetery
The Key West Cemetery is probably the first one I visit recreationally. No relatives of mine are there. I hesitate: Is this okay? Just going in to look? Appreciating the stillness, the spookiness, the peace, the quiet, the flowers? Is it wrong of me to be there just gawking? I make that first visit in…
Remembering the Maine Far from Havana
Add the explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898 to the list of historical events I don’t know enough about. I would “remember the Maine” if only I could. I know the incident triggered the Spanish-American War. I recall that the reason the boat exploded is perhaps a little murky. Conspiracy theories…
Soaring Street Art: Vancouver
I don’t know how far I’ve gone on my walk from my hotel to the Vancouver Convention Centre, through rush-hour traffic, through nervousness that I’m late for an interview, I’m late for conference registration, I’m not 100-percent entirely sure I’m even walking in the right direction, when I start to notice the eagles. New York…