Sojourn in Seattle
If you’re on your way to the San Juan Islands, consider an overnight at Seattle’s beautifully restored Mayflower Park Hotel, one of the last locally-owned independent hotels in a city dominated by worldwide chains.
Sliding into Denver’s Green Russell
Slipping into Denver’s Green Russell is like sliding down the rabbit hole with Alice, accompanied by Tom Waits. Located on Larimer Square, this subterranean “chef-driven cocktail joint” evokes a 1920s cocktail lounge. First, however, you must know the…
Art for the Nose at New Orleans’ Avery Perfume Gallery
Located in the heart of the Arts Warehouse District in New Orleans, Avery Perfume Gallery is an olfactory sanctuary for fragrance aficionados who find themselves wandering through a neighborhood now known as “the SoHo of the South.” What was once an…
The Flowering of Tuscany’s La Fiorita
Some people travel to Tuscany for vacation – and some to fulfill a dream. For Natalie Oliveros, one of her many entrepreneurial ambitions was to own a Tuscan winery and in 2011, she purchased a majority share in La Fiorita in Montalcino in the southern…
The Music of Montreux
Celebrated for its “savoir vivre” and surrounded by vineyards, spas, and grand hotels, the Montreux Riviera with its palm-lined promenade has been immortalized in song by musicians such as Mercury, Prince, and Igor Stravinsky, who wrote his “Rites of…
Home on the Range in Jackson Hole
The elk-horn arches in the center of Jackson Town Square serve as a reminder of this Wyoming town’s hunting and beaver-trapping history. Home to the planet’s largest elk herd, the National Elk Refuge hosts an average of 7,500 elk each winter, which are…
The Moss Velvet Promise of Joya’s Foxglove
A well-composed fragrance takes you places: a journey via olfactory memory. And if you are truly fortunate, you arrive in a sanctuary redolent with flora, evocative of a halcyon epoch. Such is the case with Joya’s Foxglove, which takes as its inspiration…
Swimming with Mermaids with Hugh Arnold’s ‘Agua Nacida’
Water comprises more than 60% of the human body – and covers more than 70% of the planet on which we live. Hence the title of Hugh Arnold’s collection of underwater photography Agua Nacida, the Spanish phrase for “water born.” As Arnold stated in a…