Graceland Too attracts offbeat tourism in Mississippi
December 30, 2009 ·
Paul MacLeod is a perpetually caffeinated Elvis fanatic who’s taking care of business 24-7-365 at the antebellum home he calls “Graceland Too.” Pound on the door at any hour — seriously, it’s OK to arrive at 4 in the morning — and the 67-year-old former auto worker will escort you through his discombobulating, floor-to-ceiling collection [...]
Crumbling Mississippi hotel restored to grandeur
December 16, 2009 ·
The King Edward Hotel — once a towering shell of broken windows and crumbling brick — stood as an eyesore in Mississippi’s capital city for four decades, a gritty symbol of Jackson’s slow decline. After several failed bids by various developers to overhaul the historic landmark, a New Orleans-based company has gotten the renovation done. [...]
Advice for celebrating Christmas on a ski trip
December 7, 2009 ·
There’s a new Web site for skiers, and it offers a lot more than deals. SkiResorts.com also has features on all aspects of the ski experience. Readers can check out profiles of resorts like Loon, N.H., or learn nicknames for various types of snow, from fluffy champagne powder to that heavy sticky stuff also known [...]
10 ski resorts with diversions for the rest of us
December 7, 2009 ·
Skiers want nothing but to be on the slopes this time of year. But what if they bring friends or family along who don’t ski? Shermans Travel — a publisher of travel deals and destination advice, has come up with a list of 10 of the best ski resorts in the world for nonskiers, from [...]
Rare exhibition brings together Spanish sacred art
December 2, 2009 ·
El Greco’s vision of the veil of Veronica hangs near a golden crown with 447 emeralds. Just a few steps away, a recumbent sculpture of the crucified Jesus Christ rests before its return to a Spanish hermitage in time for Holy Week. “Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World” at the Indianapolis Museum [...]
Send your postcards with a phone application by e-mail
November 23, 2009 ·
I have a confession. I have an immense collection of postcards that never reached their intended recipients. Lack of postage, a complete address or even motivation have turned countless scribbled postcards into nothing more than bookmarks in my guidebooks. But now there’s no excuse. New applications make it ridiculously easy to send a photo postcard [...]
New travel site Moebii provides targeted searches
November 9, 2009 ·
An online search of any major North American city will yield a flood of blogs, advertisements, and diarists’ musings. A Google search of “Vancouver” alone yields 87 million hits. Narrow it down to “Vancouver dining” and you still get 8.3 million responses. To help sort through this wealth of material, a pair of New Yorkers [...]
