Sunset Key Guest Cottages, A Westin Resort, is located on gorgeous Sunset Key, a secluded 27-acre Florida island. Comprising seven acres of the island, the cottages are designed for the sophisticated traveler who demands the very best. The surrounding acreage is dedicated to the most exclusive residential community in Key West, Florida. The superbly appointed …
San Francisco is the city Americans fantasise about, sing about and leave their heart in, a place of myth and magic on a par with Paris and Venice. One of California’s greatest native writers, John Steinbeck, called it “a golden handcuff with the key thrown away”. With a stunning waterfront setting that rivals Rio de Janeiro’s, and just 750,000 inhabitants, it is America’s most livable great city, and its fascinating mosaic of ethnic neighbourhoods is one of its most charming features.
Besides the Crater Road to Haleakala’s summit, Maui’s other famous road show, and one of the Pacific’s most scenic, is the narrow, corkscrew Hana ‘Highway’ on the island’s lush, isolated northeastern coast.
A place called ‘big hole’ was hardly an insult to mountain men such as Jim Bridger and Jedediah Smith, who were among the first white people to explore and label the northern Rocky Mountains. The term was simply frontier-speak for a wide, deep valley.
Laura Ingalls was born in Wisconsin and lived in Kansas, but the quiet town of De Smet, South Dakota, can rightfully claim its place as the center piece of her life story. It was here that her family finally settled in 1879, here that she became a teacher at the age of 15, here that …
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Born in Shirley Center, Massachusetts, in 1879, Benton MacKeye was a naturalist, an early employee of the U.S. Forest Service and a man who thought big. In 1921, fearing that the pace of urban-industrial life along the eastern seaboard was taxing people’s sanity, he proposed a trail that would run from the highest point in …
Interstate 80 shoots east of Salt Lake City towards three of the Rocky Mountains’ pre-eminent ski resorts and Park City, Utah’s lively and sophisticated ski epicentre. A century-old mining town, today it is world-famous for hosting the annual star-studded Sundance Film Festival.
Montgomery is the capital of the State of Alabama. The City was founded in 1819 following the merger of two towns, but only achieved capital status twenty-seven years later. In addition to being home to many government buildings, Montgomery is also host to several universities and colleges, many high-end manufacturers, and a large military contingent …
