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Royal Gorge, CA ski trip
Let the Tahoe traffic continue over Donner Pass while you peel off Interstate 80 on a snowy, bumpy backroad that seems to lead to nowhere. (Lack of signage doesn’t help the matter.)But stay the course, and you’ll arrive at Royal Gorge―North America’s largest cross-country ski “resort,” where a
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Robertson Boulevard
Its a dogs world on Robertson Boulevard. The two blocks
between Beverly Boulevard and West Third Street are abuzz with
wealthy women, metrosexuals, and young hipsters browsing with
miniature dogs tucked under their arms.
The pups are treated like royalty at Kiehls, a New York-based
skin-care sh
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Cheer on the Arizona Diamondbacks
On a warm summer night in Phoenix, theres nothing quite like catching an Arizona Diamondbacks game at Chase Field, especially now that star pitcher Randy Johnson, aka the Big Unit, has returned from the Yankees. Before or after the game, expand your baseball fun by exploring the stadium itself
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Downtown Vegas Guide
The hostess shows me to my table at Eat, a new breakfast-and-lunch spot on an unlovely corner of downtown Las Vegas. Customers huddle inside the door, along a low wall crafted from wooden pallets that once held the restaurant’s kitchen equipment. With lime green banquettes and clean midcentury
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Small is beautiful
Whenever a Los Angeles friend of mine needs to unwind, he hops
in his car and drives to Uptown Whittier. Though only 10 miles east
of L.A.s Civic Center, the quiet, tree-lined neighborhood reminds
him of his leafy little hometown in Missouri. On Friday mornings,
moms roll strollers down Bailey
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Casino
There comes a moment for most Vegas visitors when the jingle jangle of a jackpot just jangles the nerves. But where can a person wanting peace find it along the famously boisterous Strip? This is, after all, the city that invented the walk-through-the-casino-first approach to bathroom placement
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Napa Valley to Gold Country
We leave Napas luxuries to find a more rustic, low-key California, as we head into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. This is where modern California was born, when 19th-century gold seekers swarmed across these tawny hillsides seeking treasure.The best way to explore the Gold Country is to ta
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Bluff, Utah, to Grand Canyon
From Bluff, we slide southwest into Arizona, past worthy
detours:
Goosenecks State Park and
Valley of the Gods. Then the carmine mesas of
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park rise into view.
For generations of moviegoers, this is the American West. John
Ford directed the film Stagecoach here
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Five great restaurant
AURORAYummy Yummy Tasty Thai Food. Chef Pim Fitt conducts one-on-one cooking classes in her tidy Thai-stocked kitchen, aromatic with spices. The fiery foods youll lug home will satiate a small army. 9:30-10:30 a.m. Sun; $50. 13000 E. Colfax Ave.; 720/858-9121.BOULDERFlagstaff House. Chef Mark M
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The pleasures of Papago Park
During World War II, German naval personnel being held prisoner at a temporary camp in Papago Park developed a healthy interest in volleyball, played in the shadows of the parks sculptural sandstone buttes. The POWs, it turns out, were using the volleyball court to dump dirt from an escape tunn
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New charms of old Astoria
The summer morning dawned in characteristic Astorian style, with huge fluffy clouds lying low, obscuring the view. But within minutes of the jet boats departure on this morning cruise of the Columbia River, the sun was burning holes in the mist, revealing an intensely blue sky. At Tongue Point
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Paddle and sip
Its the best-kept secret in Tillamook County.When I get residents back there, its just, I had no idea! says outfitter Marc Hinz, whose Kayak Tillamook County now offers trips on Hoquarton Slough and other nearby waterways from Nehalem to Neskowin.And few people have any idea that the paddling s
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Tucsons new resort
You get to choose from just two views for your room at Tucsons new Starr Pass Resort & Spa: glittering city lights or towering saguaro cactus in 20,000-acre Tucson Mountain Park.Theres no parking-lot vista because cars are parked underground. With its infrastructure invisible, Starr Pass ―T
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Springtime in Spokane
Map and travel info
The intricate gold leaf in the lobby of the 1914
Davenport Hotel
isnt the only thing giving Spokane its new glow. Renovated in
2002, the elegant establishment (from $169; 10 S. Post St.;
800/899-1482) is just one of the many projects that added up to a
record number of
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Rowing the blue
Its a calm fall morning out on San Francisco Bay, and a mere
toothpick of a boat ― more than 20 feet long, less than 1
foot wide, and powered by two lean oars ― skims across the
surface like a giant water skeeter.
Shirwin Smith, founder and former owner of Sausalito-based Open
Water Rowing,
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Chalk it up
Close local streets to traffic and fill them with 200 artists creating masterpieces in chalk on the pavement, and you have the setting for a traditional Italian street-painting festival.For two days Larimer Squares annual La Piazza dellArte will showcase large works by professional madonnari (t
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Peninsula planner
MONTEREY
For general area information, contact the
Monterey County Convention & Visitors Bureau
(closed Sat-Sun; 150 Olivier St.;
www.montereyinfo.org or
831/649-1770).
ACTIVITIES
Adventures by the Sea. Three-hour guided kayak tours $50;
kayak rentals $30 a day. Three-hour bike tour
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Gotta getta alpaca
How many of you are current alpaca owners? Mike Safley
asks.
There are 30 of us here at Safleys Northwest Alpacas Ranch west
of Portland, attending his seminar How to Buy, Breed, and Succeed
in the Alpaca Business. At his question, nearly everyone raises a
hand except me. I have spent my entire
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Washington National Parks Must
Hoh Rain Forest Always green, and almost always wet, Hoh Rain Forest is at the top of our must-see list. The rain―134 inches annually―goes on vacation in July, August, and September. See a rich spectrum of greens: thet deep emerald of licorice fern, the wan olive of hanging club moss, and the t
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Santa Maria BBQ
The scent of red oak hangs thick and spicy-sweet in the air like good pipe tobacco, seasoned with the traces of decades of barbecue. Even early in the morning, before the fires are lit, it fills this cavernous room at the Santa Maria Elks Lodge, flavoring every breath I take. At the back stands
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