‘Tis the season for planning travel for the coming year and all the respected travel authorities are busy compiling their lists of favorite destinations. I, too, have a list of far-flung places to recommend in 2013. Fairbanks, Alaska Why it’s on the radar: Fairbanks is one of the best places to view to view the…
The best way to photograph “Work No. 965: Half the air in a given space” by British artist Martin Creed is to immerse yourself within it. The exhibit, which runs through November 25 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, is a large room filled halfway with purple balloons that swallow those who enter. “People come…
Central American cave continues to draw visitors looking for adventure in the heart of Belize’s interior.
I’m no lush, but it’s hard to go to Ireland and not have a drink or two or ten. Alcohol consumption is one of the country’s favorite pastimes, says our taxi driver as we leave the airport. “But, I don’t drink,” he adds. “I get a lot of strange looks when I tell that to…
It took less than two minutes to circle the two-and-a-half-mile oval track at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in a Chevy Camaro convertible pace car, but it took 30 minutes to brush the tangles out of my hair. It was worth it. Our driver Martin Plowman was a cheeky Brit, who had earlier told a crowd…
September is National Honey Month and to celebrate, several hotel properties are offering special deals for guests. The Brown Palace Hotel & Spa in Downtown Denver has introduced a number of innovative offerings that incorporate the honey from its own bee colonies. Taking the sustainability of rooftop hives to a whole new level, the hotel’s…
Toledo, Ohio, has never been hotter. And there’s no place where that is more evident than at the glass-blowing studio at the Toledo Museum of Art’s Glass Pavilion, where the ovens are cranked up to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Each day, the resident artisans shape molten glass into beautiful works of art in front of crowds…
Two weeks ago, my friend and I packed a picnic and made plans to take her kids to Wallace Lake in Berea, Ohio, for a day at the beach, complete with paddleboat rides on the water. When we got there, the boats were chained up on the shore — apparently grounded until further notice. “No…
After 17 years of working with chimpanzees at the Kaniyo Pabidi eco-tourism site, forest ranger Sauda Birungi knows a lot about their behavior, which makes tracking them in Uganda’s Budongo Forest easier. “Sometimes people think they have moved, but they are really staying quiet until the threat has passed,” she says to me and my…
Drink Local Drink Tap (DLDT) has reason to celebrate. After 18 months of planning, the organization has completed its first water project overseas with documentary filmmakers in tow. DLDT’s director Erin Huber, was overseeing the building of a water source on the grounds of St. Bonaventure Primary School in Mulajje, Uganda, which was funded by…
