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Rites of spring
Open the door to Rheinlander Bakery in downtown Arvada and the seductive aroma of fresh hot cross buns envelops you like a mothers hug. Curved-glass pastry cases filled with Easter cookies and Old World cakes shaped like bunnies and chicks take you back to a simpler time, a time when bakers mad
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Wine Tasting on Montereys Wine Road
Why go in fall: In under-the-radar vineyards tucked against the mountains south of Salinas, the harvest is on.What’s growing: Long dubbed the “salad bowl of the country”—80 percent of U.S.-grown lettuce comes from here—the Salinas Valley is now also turning out phenomenal wine.Your route: River
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Things to do in Red River, New Mexico
Ski resorts, by definition, live in beautiful places—the biggest mountains, the most pristine forests. And those mountains don’t close shop come spring.Many resorts have morphed into summertime playgrounds, but few do it with as much charm and small-town panache as Red River, a burg of 435 peop
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Getting started: Kayaking
I am spending the weekend at Neah Bay along the northwestern nose of Washingtons Olympic Peninsula, in a sea-kayaking course called, ominously, Introduction to Rough Water. I am pondering one final run, out through the surf zone to the Pacific swell and back, in an 18-foot fiberglass banana tha
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Best refurb burb: Stapleton
The category: Neighborhoods rising from former sites of airports and institutions, making use of precious space.The stats: 12 miles east of downtown Denver; population 5,000 and growing.The residents: Mike and Elizabeth King (32 and 33). Mike, a lawyer, just made partner. Elizabeth works in man
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Tour Mission Bay
Getting aroundMission Bay lies about 10 miles north of downtown San Diego ― a 10-minute ride from the airport. For maps and information, contact the San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau ( www.sandiego.com or 619/236-1212).Dress like a localThink water and rays: swimsuits, T-shirts, sungla
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Ghosts and old roses travel planner
DRIVE LENGTH: About 65 miles (loop).CONTACT: Mariposa Visitor Bureau: (209) 966-3685, (866) 425-3366, or www.homeofyosemite.com.]ATTRACTIONS: California State Mining & Mineral Museum. 10–6 daily; $1. 5005 Fairgrounds Rd., Mariposa; (209) 742-7625.Lake McClure. Day use $5.50, camping from $1
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Travel back in time to Washington’s Anderson Island
From the moment your car rattles onto the white Pierce County ferry, a trip to Anderson Island is a journey back in time.The 8-mile-long island has no stoplights, one general store, a single restaurant, and about 1,000 year-round residents who want things to stay quiet and quaint.Which explains
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Cerrillos Hills
To truly appreciate northern New Mexicos sublime interplay of light, land, and sky, you need to head up the arroyos and into the rolling hills. At dusk, that is. Astride a horse.Cowpoke wannabes can now play out this fantasy in the recently opened Cerrillos Hills Historic Park, Santa Fe Countys
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Coast to the coast
Its not easy, taking all day to drive to the beach from Eugene on State 126. Barely 60 miles of blacktop beg you to make it in one breath. But try leaving efficiency back at the office some weekend this fall, and instead meander along this classic Coast Range road.Start by sleeping in, then go
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Showtime in Seattle
Its 7 p.m., an hour before curtain, and theaters all over
town are buzzing. Folks in wardrobe stitch up split seams from last
nights duel. Stage managers check lights while actors sit at
mirrors, applying makeup in the glare of 40-watt bulbs. Floral
deliveries come through the stage door, head
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Arizonas Desert People
Skinny Coyote is warming up with Louie Louie as the morning sun rises over distant mountains. Lets hear that one again, says lead singer Sonny Antone. Bass man Darrell Antone thumbs a few chords, breaking into a sly grin. Oh yeah, he says. L.A., here we come.They share a knowing laugh--these mi
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Tucsons backyard hikes
The Santa Catalina Mountains are literally Tucsons front-yard mountain range. But when pondering a spring day hike, try heading south. The citys backyard range, the Santa Rita Mountains are every bit as geologically awesome and are 296 feet taller.On the east slope, Gardner Canyon is a launch s
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Friday
Map it out. Stop by the Cañon City Chamber of Commerce (403 Royal Gorge Blvd.; 800/876-7922), housed in the elegant abode of long-ago Colorado governor James H. Peabody, for a quick orientation and a walking-tour map of the historic downtown district.Art vieux, art nouveau. Housed in the classi
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Ice out on Barr Lake
For birds, Barr Lake is the best bed-and-breakfast on the Front Range, says Mary Ann McMullen, volunteer naturalist with Barr Lake State Park in Brighton, Colorado.Nestled in the prairie northeast of Denver, this cottonwood-ringed lake is typically ice-free by April and is a spring haven for mi
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Tasty medicine
It happens every year: holiday overindulgence, followed by New
Years resolutions to eat more sensibly. Theres no better place to
do just that than Medicine New-Shojin Eat-station, an inviting
restaurant incongruously located at San Franciscos Crocker
Galleria. Here, in an airy space full of blo
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Artisan Sonoma
On a clear, sunny January afternoon, when the oak-covered Mayacamas Mountains are so brilliantly green that you have to squint, State 12 is one of the prettiest roads around. Rick Kasmier still remembers how that road struck him and his wife, Sandi, when they first came to the Sonoma Valley 19
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Monsoon wedding
Trying to find the right wine to drink with Vietnamese food
― redolent of coconut milk, lemon grass, tamarind, and hot
chiles ― can be a hit-and-miss game. Its enough to send most
of us careening back to the beer list or the teapot. But Eric Banh,
who co-owns Monsoon Restaurant with his sister,
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Cowboy chef
A chef from Texas, a restaurant called Blacksmith, the edge of
downtown Bend in Oregons ranch country: Of course the menu
includes meat loaf and pan-fried trout. But Gavin McMichaels meat
loaf is less like Moms and more like a French forcemeat, and his
trout comes with cowboyed up caponata and
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Art on Portlands Alberta Street
Artists studios and a few pioneering galleries began popping up on Portlands Northeast Alberta Street about a decade ago. Now the once-gritty neighborhood is one of the citys most vibrant art districts, with boutiques and fine restaurants starting to take hold too, mostly between 12th and 31st
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