By RICH GRANT People who have never been to Indianapolis and assume it is just another dying, dull, rust- and corn-belt Midwest city could not be more mistaken. Indy is amazingly sophisticated, and getting better by the day. Indy’s very walkable downtown is green (with 350 acres of parks, rivers, tree-lined boulevards and canals), European (with impressive monuments and murals),
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By RICH GRANT It is forever Christmas at McKonkey’s Ferry Inn. The dining room in this lovely tavern, located on the banks of the Delaware River, 42 miles upstream from Philadelphia, is always decorated as it would have been on Christmas night, 1776, when George Washington had dinner here. As Washington dined, 2,400 of his men assembled outside along the
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BY RICH GRANT If you want to leave the noise and chaos of the 21st century behind and travel back to a simpler time, there’s nothing quite like an early morning stroll down the Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg, Virginia. By noon, DOG Street (as the locals call it) will be swarming with tourists and shoppers, but if you
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By RICH GRANT … “Jubilee!” — which closed on Feb. 11, 2016 — was pure Vegas – the longest running show in town, running continuously for 35 years…
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By RICH GRANT … No trip to England is complete without seeing a redcoat, and there are many ways to catch a glimpse of these stately guardians of history…
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By RICH GRANT It was a wild, cold, blowing October afternoon in Charlevoix, Michigan, and as I crossed the street I heard a woman say to her friend, “Is that snow? Oh, thank heavens! Now we can finally get our town back.” I knew what she meant. I was a stranger here, but even on a first visit,
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By RICH GRANT … The Great Locomotive Chase was a 120-mile journey from Atlanta to Chattanooga, tracing the Civil War’s greatest adventure…
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By LARRY ANTHONY PANNELL … The Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Trãi called Ha Long Bay “a rock wonder in the sky.” Anyone who has ever seen the place can understand why…
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The Valley of the Kings is just 30 minutes away from Luxor
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