Western States
West includes the following States - Alaska, Colorado, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
National Parks: Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site -- La Junta, Colorado -- As you approach the gate, you smell the aroma of a cottonwood campfire. Entering the plaza, you hear the clang of the blacksmith’s hammer on an anvil. You are greeted by a guide in 19th-century garb muddied with adobe. Welcome to 1846! Welcome to Bent’s Old Fort!
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How to Win Big in Vegas Before You Even Get There -- Most of us worry about not losing our shirts once we get to Vegas, but what about before we even depart? There are dozens of ways to save money on your next Vegas vacation before you even leave home. Here are just a few.
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Three Places to Interact with Dolphins in Hawaii -- Visitors to Hawaii frequently see dolphins from shore or on a whale-watching cruise or fishing boat. If you would like to guarantee up-close dolphin interaction you can pay for the privilege at three places in Hawaii.
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Christmas In San Francisco -- New fallen snow blanketed the countryside. The sounds of passing cars along the road were muted in the still, peaceful air. Hills and valleys, in their blanket of snow, rolled softly into the distance, bathed in the mellow light of a nearly full moon. A woody smell of burning pine and warm hearths teased at my nostrils as I turned up the lane toward the house, snow crunching beneath my boots.
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Molokai: Hawaii for Hawaiians - Part 1 -- They call it the “Friendly Isle”… You may come away thinking of Molokai as the “Indifferent Isle”… But what did you expect?
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Molokai: Hawaii for Hawaiians - Part 2 -- In our first installment, we settled into our temporary home along Molokai’s southeast coast, tucked in a little coastal valley of tropical greenery - a charming little home-by-the-sea.
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Molokai: Hawaii for Hawaiians - Part 3 -- The Kalaupapa Peninsula and Father Damien, The Martyr of Molokai
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Molokai: Hawaii for Hawaiians - Part 4 -- Clouds hung low and heavy on the horizon, the gray mid-morning light silhouetted the sharp rise of Maui, looming across the channel. My eyes were getting droopy and the book in my hand began to slip. A gentle, moist wind blew in off the coast. The occasional drop of rain on the roof of the lanai... The sound of the surf filled my brain...
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A Walk and Dinner Along Monterey's Cannery Row -- We arrived in Monterey around 3:30 in the afternoon… The windshield wipers were on the whole way in, though at continually variable settings, from a hard rain to a soft mist, usually something in between…
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Seven Tips To Plan Your Maui Trip -- People come to Maui for six main reasons...sun, sand, sea, sights, shopping, sports. Here are seven tips to help make your Maui trip wonderful.
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The Plan Is Point Lobos -- It was our last day at the little hotel on the quiet end of Cannery Row, overlooking Monterey Bay. Sun filtered through thick wooden shudders as morning broke -- the sun wouldn’t last, and, it soon seemed, nor would my plan. But as I lay there in the cool morning air, listening to the eternal roll of the ocean on the coast, the playful barking of wakening sea lions in the distance, I still had a plan...
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Volcano House -- Everybody loves a good volcano. The Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii has been captivating people for hundreds of years. Mark Twain said of this place, “... and you hear the hissing of steam in her boilers, the puffing from her escape pipes and the churning rush of the water abaft her wheels. The smell of sulfur is strong, but not unpleasant to a sinner."
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