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Hotels in Sonomas Russian River Valley
1 | Applewood This rambling inn is a choice spot for touring the Russian River wine country. Also here is the superb Applewood restaurant. 19 rooms from $185.13555 Highway 116, Guerneville; 800/555-8509; applewoodinn.com2 | The Farmhouse Inn You get privacy and considerable luxury at an inn tha
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New life for ancient art
Late last year, a handful of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs
were unveiled to the public in a new home just a mile upriver from
where most of the works were originally created: Columbia Hills
State Park (formerly Horsethief Lake State Park). Thousands of
these treasures had been drowned by
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Letter perfect
I discovered Beachwood Canyon years ago while visiting my friends
Dino and El Sid. Dino, like many Beachwood residents, is an actor.
El Sid was crashing on Dinos couch and running a baking business
out of the apartment in his quest to become the gourmet mandelbrot
king of Los Angeles.
Smitte
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History by rail and on foot
Sunday breakfast was bagels and scrambled eggs at nearby Caffe la Piazza ($10.45). Up Mason Street, the Cable Car Museum (free) is command central for the citys rolling antiques. We peered through underground windows to see the steadily turning pulleys and wheels that keep all of the citys cabl
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Big Sky drive
Horses, dinosaurs, tepees. I steel my kids, Phoebe and Tobin, for the 500-mile round-trip with these three words. My mission is to take them on a summer vacation theyll never forget: a tour of the Rocky Mountain Front that slices 100 miles north from State 200 to Glacier National Park in Montan
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Beating the odds in Las Vegas
Some people dont believe in luck. They say we create, through effort or karma, our own futures. So the source of the good fortune bestowed upon my husband and me on a recent weekend trip to Las Vegas is debatable, but wherever it came from, we sure felt charmed: We enjoyed great food and entert
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Napa travel planner
ATTRACTIONS
Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park. 10-5; $3, $1 ages 6-17.
Located 3 miles north of St. Helena on State 29; (707)
942-4575.
Bothe-Napa Valley State Park. Dawn-dusk; $4 per car. 3801
State 29, 5 miles north of St. Helena; (707) 942-4575.
Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food
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Boonville, CA day trip
Why go now: New storefronts and fresh faces are giving this one-horse town a buzzier vibe. Pop: 1,400That was then: Logging, apple orchards, and sheep.This is now: A crop of next-generation Anderson Valley kids is moving back home to open businesses here. Hang with the locals: Over sandwiches a
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Winter water
Free-falling 286 feet, Salt Creek Falls is Oregons
second-tallest waterfall; only Multnomah Falls, in the Columbia
River Gorge, has a longer drop. Its impressive any time of year
but dazzling with a lacework of ice and frost in midwinter.
Stop by on your way to skiing at Willamette Pass or Mt.
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Solitary sands
Ventura has beaches, but they lack the T-shirt shops,
look-at-me roller-skaters, and all the other hullabaloo of their
southern neighbors. Venturas beaches remain, well, beaches:
salt-sprayed, windswept on most afternoons, fog-shrouded in summer,
and sun-graced in fall, winter, and spring. And
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World’s fair in Santa Fe
Wander the globe in a weekend, strolling the stalls of an exotic bazaar and soaking up the colorful sights, smells, and textures from the likes of India, Afghanistan, and Brazil.What started at a single Santa Fe boutique has turned into the fourth annual Santa Fe International Folk Art Market,
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Haute Mexican
Over the last couple of decades, Mexican food has flowed across the continent, but Mexican cuisine has followed hesitantly. Americans have become accustomed to a lot of burrito for a buck, so our southern neighbors serious cooking, which can be as complicated and delectable - and expensive - as
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Harvest Salad with Herb Dressing
In a large shallow serving bowl, mix 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, 3 tablespoons white wine vinegar, 3 tablespoons minced sweet onion, 1 tablespoon chopped fresh basil or fresh dill leaves, and 1 clove garlic, peeled and minced.Add 1 cup each fresh-cut corn kernels, diced firm-ripe toma
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Olympic National Park family adventure
Thats silly! laughs Lilli, my 3-year-old daughter, as we come upon a phone booth topped with a thick bed of moss. Were in Olympic National Parks Hoh Rain Forest, which, as one of the worlds most well-watered spots, is like a Dr. Seuss book come to life.Moss covers the railings of the bridge we
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Christmas in Santa Fe
Its easy to love Santa Fe during the holidays. Visit the historic Plaza on any chilly, clear evening from Thanksgiving to New Years Day, and I defy you not to be entranced by the silvery lights strung on every tree, sparkling against the dusk. In the last glow of the sunset, the adobe buildings
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Feel the holiday spirit in Tucsons El Presidio District
As the holidays draw near, Arizona artist Maria Luisa Teña assembles hundreds of terra-cotta figures at the Tucson Museum of Art to create El Nacimiento, a room-size installation that depicts the Nativity and scenes of Mexican religious and village life.Its the highlight of a visit to Tucsons h
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Linger in Lafayette
In the East Bay town of Lafayette, its a straight shot down
Mt. Diablo Boulevard from the Res to Margaret and Elam Brown
Plaza, but savvy travelers can devote the day to getting there.
Start at the boulevards west end. The Res, as the Lafayette
Reservoir is affectionately known, is one of the
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Close shave
Unless you live in Mayberry, theres a pretty good chance your local barber has been replaced with a froufrou salon. As a result, the good old-fashioned straightedge mens shave has been nearly wiped out. Thats why the opening of the Art of Shavings first West Coast barber spa, in Mandalay Bays r
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A little twilight music
Santa Barbara suffers no shortage of wonderful ways to spend a summer evening. But the picnic concerts performed at the Music Academy of the West are the most lyrical.Pleasure begins even before the music does, as concertgoers arrive with food to spread out on the lush grounds of a Spanish colo
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Carnival in Santa Fe
It began as a feast before the fast, a celebration before the 40 days of Catholic Lent kicked in. Today, carnival is about play and a sense of release, says Barbara Mauldin, curator of ¡Carnaval! at Santa Fes Museum of International Folk Art.Depicting traditions in Europe and the Americas, the
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