As recently as 1950, the city of Phoenix comprised an area smaller than the island of Manhattan with just over 100,000 residents. In those days, the “Valley of the Sun” was a desert oasis, verdant with palms and Japanese gardens … Read More
Marilyn Monroe’s favorite pool is in the middle of the Sonoran Desert at the Arizona Biltmore – and you, too, can swim there. Early in the morning, you might even have it to yourself: you and the spirit of Marilyn floating in the desert. … Read More
Life is a journey and how better to celebrate a new chapter, a newlywed life, than with an Homeric odyssey into the Swedish archipelago. … Read More
There’s something about Seattle that keeps the city on nearly everyone’s bucket list. Everywhere you go, you meet gay people whose eyes kind of glaze over when they talk about Seattle. Seattle is one of those places that makes people … Read More
If you are one of those gay men haunted by the image of the nubile Tadzio in silhouette at the water’s edge in Luchino Visconti’s masterful cinematic vision of Thomas Mann’s homoerotic novella, Death in Venice, then you must travel … Read More
Incorporated in 1869, Seattle was named for the chief of the Native Americans who lived in the region 4,000 years before the arrival of white settlers. … Read More
Chances are, you know Vancouver – even if you’ve never been there. Dubbed “Hollywood North,” Vancouver has been a primary film location for nearly a century and is, currently, the third-largest film production town in North America after Los Angeles and New York. … Read More
A UNESCO World Heritage site, the Canadian Rockies are marked by snow-capped mountain peaks and deep river canyons, punctuated by boreal forests of birch, poplar, and conifers. … Read More
