Area travel guides keep it simple
September 14, 2009 ·
It seems almost every travel guide offers a glimpse of California’s famed Napa and Sonoma region, the wine country that attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. Now a new online company has entered the crowded travel market. Area, a Web-based guide downloadable to a laptop, iPhone, or smartphone, is aiming for the style-conscious [...]
Find Anne of Green Gables on Prince Edward Island
September 8, 2009 ·
As the surf laps at your feet and sand dunes stretch for as far as the eye can see under a sky filled with billowing clouds, it becomes clear that your search for the enchanting island the irrepressible Anne Shirley falls in love with is complete. The beloved heroine of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s 1908 book [...]
Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando
August 31, 2009 ·
Horror movie fans — and anyone else who likes the idea of being scared silly — will want to check out Universal theme park’s Halloween Horror Nights this fall, as a “Ripped from the Silver Screen” theme brings The Wolfman, Jigsaw and Chucky to life. Event dates are Sept. 25-26, and Oct. 1-4, 8-11, 15-18, [...]
Cape May, NJ: Food & Wine Festival, Victorian Week
August 31, 2009 ·
The Cape May Food & Wine Festival unfolds over nine days, from Sept. 19 to Sept. 27, with events that include food and wine tastings, a chefs cook-off, a gourmet marketplace, and a chowder contest. Also on the program are five chefs’ dine-arounds, five gourmet luncheons, wine cellar tours and tastings, a beer-tasting dinner, and [...]
Sky-high travel phone bills nearly bust house payment
August 28, 2009 ·
When it comes to “gotcha” fees, the cellular phone industry makes travel companies look like rank amateurs. Take what happened to P. Morgan Brown when his wife decided to take a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Indonesia. Her Verizon bill came to a staggering $8,000. Text-messages home cost an astounding $2.50 each and the meter was running [...]
Bike rental Web site helps travelers find bikes
August 17, 2009 ·
Renting a car is one way to see a new city, but for a real close-up (and a little exercise), how about renting a bike? A Web site launched earlier this year, http://www.rentabikenow.com/, helps travelers find two-wheeled transportation in 168 cities in the United States and Canada. It works with 200 bike stores — and [...]
Want cell service abroad? Try a cheap local phone
August 3, 2009 ·
To prepare for a trip to Tuscany, Paul Boffa visited a local Verizon store to learn about options for taking his mobile phone with him. Boffa, a musician and teacher who lives in Vermont and travels overseas infrequently, quickly learned that staying in touch with home would be more complicated than he’d thought. A salesman [...]
