by Victoria Shepherd Taxi prices in New York have gone up since I was there last year. A trip into Manhattan from JFK International will now set you back forty-five dollars, plus toll and tip. The Grand Hyatt Hotel on East 42nd Street is located directly above the refurbished Grand Central Station, but the hotel…
by Stephanie Block Who says you can’t live off the land in the middle of a city? Oakland Sol-ers are doing just that. Their mixed-use building in the heart of East Oakland’s warehouse district hardly strikes one as an urban oasis, surrounded as it is by auto body shops and a freeway. But much like…
by Gigi Ragland Undaunted Courage, by Stephen Ambrose, chronicles the heroic overland expedition of Lewis and Clark. These adventurous men and their thirty-one member party, dubbed the Corps of Discovery, journeyed westward from St. Louis in search of an all-water route to the Pacific. Of particular interest to me was the Corp’s encounter with the…
by Gigi Ragland Before I left for Thailand, friends advised me to visit Wat Po, the oldest and largest temple in Bangkok. They recommended Wat Po not because of the temple’s overwhelmingly stunning physical attributes, or because it holds Thailand’s largest reclining Buddha, but because it is home to the first Open University in Thailand,…