by Shanti Sosienski “We just might fly today,” says Chris Santacroce, 31, owner of Superfly Paragliding Academy in Salt Lake City, Utah. “Santa,” as he’s referred to in the paragliding community, and I are standing at South Point, a muddy, somewhat snow-covered parking lot on the top of a long sloping hill. It’s hard to…
by Andrea Clarke The Chinese scholar and writer Lin Yutang once wrote, “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” Along with other sacred belongings, my pillow is gathering dust in the attic of an airport hangar at Melbourne Airport. I…
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly how many things have dropped off the deep end of our cultural landscape. And I shudder to bring up what I’m about to bring up in the midst of so many more monolithic, troubling items which blink with de-sensitizing regularity across our American radar screen. In just a few short…
Tucked between the bustling chic High Street and the quiet neighborhood of Kensington are the charming full-service apartments of Kensington Court. Located on an attractive private square lined with Range Rovers, Porsches, and Audis, Kensington Court is the perfect place for any jet setting Diva to call home while visiting London. Unlike busy hotels, where…
by Jennifer Anthony I love lists. I love making them. I love checking them twice. But what I especially love is the joy of taking a big black marker and crossing each item off with a satisfying, inky squeak. So I was thrilled to discover a new book of lists entitled, You Can Do It!…
An unseasonably sunny, seventy-degree day dawned on the priveleged players of the annual AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament- the one where stars are the ‘am’ in Pro-Am, as in, “Am I dreaming or is that Justin Timberlake??” The fact that pro golfers whom you may not have heard of team up with Hollywood…
My dad John- who travels to Paris, France every year – reports quite happily that as of February1st the public toilets in Paris are FREE!. Previously one had to pay uisng coins. Dad quips the local McDonalds will be very happy – as the line for the toilets were always knee deep so to speak….