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Walking and Drinking Beer with the Wreckers, Rebels and Rumrunners of Key West

Walking and Drinking Beer with the Wreckers, Rebels and Rumrunners of Key West

The six-foot-two-inch female impersonator in the gold lame gown curled her finger at me across Duval Street and shouted, “Come on over honey, the show starts in 15 minutes.”She was wrong. The “show” in Key West started about 180 years ago and it’s still going strong.This somewhat crazy tropical island, capital of the self-proclaimed Conch […]

Rolling and Drinking Beer on the Ski Train

Rolling and Drinking Beer on the Ski Train

Every Winter weekend for the past 69 years, the Ski Train has chugged out of Denver’s Union Station at 7:15 a.m., climbing 56 miles up into the Rocky Mountains on what many people call the most scenic stretch of railroad track in the nation. Along the way, the train burrows through 28 tunnels, hugging a […]

Drinking with George Washington in Philadelphia

Drinking with George Washington in Philadelphia

George Washington was a Philadelphian. While he’s most often associated with Mount Vernon in Virginia, the truth is that he spent nearly his entire public life in Philadelphia, both as a general and president.In 1776, Philadelphia was the second largest city in the British Empire. With a population of 40,000 and some 6,000 impressive brick […]

Floating Through Mexico City Drinking Cerveza

Floating Through Mexico City Drinking Cerveza

Our barge had barely pushed away from shore before we were surrounded by other boats, all painted in equally bright colors. On one side, an old woman glided her skiff next to ours to offer roasted corn on a stick, the blackened kernels coated with lime and salt. On the other side, a floating bar […]

Biking ‘Round the San Francisco Bay

Biking ‘Round the San Francisco Bay

One of the most spectacular urban bike rides in the nation is also one of the easiest.In just a couple of hours of relaxed peddling, it’s possible to bike around San Francisco Bay, cross the famous Golden Gate Bridge, visit an old sailing ship, scale the ramparts of a Civil War fort, ride by marinas […]

Drinking Kalik with the Real Pirates of the Caribbean

Drinking Kalik with the Real Pirates of the Caribbean

“Are ye a pirate, sir? Well then, sign aboard,” says Joseph Garvey, brandishing a flintlock pistol as he beckons visitors into the Pirates of Nassau Museum. Called “the best pirate attraction in the world” by British pirate historian David Cordingly, (there can’t be much competition) the museum in downtown Nassau, Bahamas blends some corny Disney-like […]

Sailing Through the Andes Drinking Pisco Sours

Sailing Through the Andes Drinking Pisco Sours

It’s not easy to go east from Chile. A string bean of a nation, Chile stretches 2,580 miles from north to south, but averages only 110 miles in width. It’s like taking a land mass slightly larger than Texas and rolling it into a thin pencil that is twice as long as California. Running down […]

Island Hopping Along the Coast of Croatia

Island Hopping Along the Coast of Croatia

Many Americans were surprised in 2005 when Lonely Planet guidebook selected Croatia as the world’s number one dream vacation site. To geographically and historically challenged Americans, Croatia was a war zone, some far off Eastern European country.Even today four years later, when Croatia has become one of the hottest destinations for European travelers, there are […]

Drinking Your Way Through the English Countryside

Drinking Your Way Through the English Countryside

There’s no better way to see the English countryside than by walking from village to village on public footpaths, strolling across rolling green hills dotted with sheep and dry-stone walls. And of course, no hike in England is complete without stopping now and then for a rewarding pint of beer, served fireside in a cozy […]

New England in a Nutshell: Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard

New England in a Nutshell: Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard

No place epitomizes the New England of popular imagination better than the islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard.Located 20 miles off the south shore of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, Nantucket is a step back in time – a New England “theme park” filled with stately white sea captain houses, cobblestone streets, lighthouses, weather-beaten shingle cottages, […]

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