Luxury camping, 10 miles into Grand Canyon
Most deaths here, our guide explains, can be attributed to poor judgment. Hikers underestimate how much water they will need, how close they are to […]
Grand Hotel: classy survivor of genteel times
There is no escaping the geraniums. They are woven into carpeting, printed onto toiletries, planted in front of the rocking chairs outside. There are about […]
Grand celebration begins in Traverse City
My 50th birthday is behind me, but not without a long stretch of celebrations that involved friendly strangers as well as friends, 2,000 miles away […]
Luck and resilience matters, home and away
So much of what happens in life is a matter of timing, and so much of it is out of our hands. It would not […]
Cheap thrills the backbone of trip to Chicago
Dozens of us will head south this month, to watch Wisconsin take on Northwestern at Ryan Field in Evanston, Ill. Why not come along? At […]
Savor ‘Chocolate’ immersion in Milwaukee
The sweetest excursion to be taken next month is to the Milwaukee Public Museum, which opens “Chocolate: The Exhibition” on Oct. 9. This is the […]
Reader mail: places to see before you die
We’re frantic and between grand excursions that you’ll hear about next month, so let’s simply dip into the reader mailbag. First: Two responses regarding the […]
Don’t let gas cost, hurricane hits kill travel
A few days after Hurricane Katrina, I started digging around the basement for a box that hadn’t been opened for a dozen years. It was […]
Chefs connect with farmers on their own turf
This “Roads Traveled” is for release on or after Sept. 3, 2005. Up to 850 words. Artwork to customers has been sent under three separate […]
Canoe Bay Resort: remote, remarkable
First come the rustling stalks of corn, one field after another. There are dots of farmhouses and ripened vegetable gardens, splashes of wildflowers and thickening […]
Tribes work to break tourism stereotypes
Potawatomi Bingo Casino, Milwaukee, has one of the state’s few four-diamond restaurants, Dream Dance. Visits to four reservations comprise a five-night Northeast Wisconsin Native American […]
Native American tourism: It’s not all casinos
Polkas, threshing, fiddles and Polish sausage probably aren’t the first things that come to mind when the topic is Native American tourism. But next week […]