Articles Tagged “travel”

  • Anacapa Island Inspiration Point

    The Channel Islands

    By Linda McK.Stewart Operation Rescue on Anacapa Atop the cliffs of Anacapa it’s a 360-degree view of infinite sea, infinite sky. From the human perspective, the island of Anacapa is all straight up, straight down…

  • The Japanese American Museum is located in an area known as Little Tokyo in Los Angeles.

    In Little Tokyo

    By LInda McK.Stewart February 19, 1942, Executive Order No. 9066 is signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was 75 days after “the date which will live in infamy.” All of America was still reeling under…

  • Visitors can pose at the door of Air Force One, used during Reagan’s and six other presidents’ administrations.

    Remembering the Gipper

    By Linda McK.Stewart No presidential library was ever designed on a “warts and all” concept. So it’s no surprise that the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, the nation’s largest and most expensive presidential library,…

  • Bob Sickles of Sickles Market in Little Silver and his staff, Chef Carol Maxwell, Kirsty Dougherty, director of tours and training, and Cheri Scolari, culinary marketing specialist, talk to people interested in the market’s Paris to Provence tour in June.

    To Paris with Love

    By John Burton LITTLE SILVER –­ A few days in the City of Lights with its iconic attractions and then on to the delights of Provence is what Bob Sickles and his staff are looking…

  • Workroom at ShackletonThomas.

    Vermont Calling

    By Linda McK.Stewart It could hardly come at a more propitious time. With the wreckage wrought by Super Storm Sandy still all too apparent, with the raw memory of treasured family heirlooms lying shattered atop…

  • Marianne Fittingoff of Thousand Oaks, Calif., drives every Saturday morning to purchase flowers from Calabasas Farmers’ Market vendor Juan Durin.

    ‘Too Much the Good Thing’

    By Linda McK.Stewart Calabasas   Saturday mornings, rain or shine, 52 weeks a year … “Well, almost 52,” says Mariane Fittingoff, “I drive here from Thousand Oaks, just to hit the Calabasas Farmers’ Market before…

  • Tahar Najoui with passenger.

    Morocco’s Sahara

    By Linda McK.Stewart The Door to the Desert   The Sahara Des­ert, about the size of the continental U.S., covers one third of Africa’s landmass. It extends from the Red Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.…

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    Christmas in Bloom!

    By Linda McK.Stewart When is excess not excessive at all? When is a tsunami of fragrance, light, color and pure delight exactly the Rx most needed for the storm-battered, the weather-weary? The answer is as…

  • Canada’s largest cities are Ottawa, Quebec, Montreal, Toronto (above), Calgary and Vancouver.

    O Canada!

    By Linda McK.Stewart Northward bound   Well, that fateful day, Novem­ber the Sixth in the Year of our Lord, Two Thou­sand and Twelve has come and gone, leaving in its wake both triumph and despair.…

  • At Home with Mark Twain

    At Home with Mark Twain

    By Linda McK.Stewart   “Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” So spoke America’s favorite humorist, Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) who took Mark Twain as his pen name. Although his output was voluminous, much of it still…