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Archive for May, 2009
Sol Socks like mittens for your feet
SPLIT DECISION: How do you wear those comfy flip-flops and thong sandals and still keep your toes warm? With Sol Socks — soft stretchy fleece socks with a split at the toe that makes them mittens for your feet. Warmer and more comfortable than glove-style socks, which separate each toe, Sol Socks come in unisex sizes in mid-weight and lightweight styles, ankle and mid-calf lengths, and about 20 colors and patterns, from black to lavender or bright stripes. They are machine washable and quick-dry…
Florida events: June 2-21
June 6-9: Pirate Uprising at Billy Bowlegs Festival, Fort Walton Beach. Includes bands, food, fireworks, children's activities. 850-244-8191; www.fwbchamber.org/Billy-Bowlegs.35.0.html.
Destinations | In Chicago, looking down is starting to look up
We hear it all the time: “I've done the Grand Canyon's skywalk. What's next?'' What's next, all you high-altitude thrill-seekers, is the Ledge at Chicago's Sears Tower, a series of glass-floored additions that cantilever off the building's 103rd-floor Skydeck giving visitors unobstructed views of Chicago — 1,353 feet straight down. On a clear day, you can also see four states and points 50 miles distant.
Travel Briefs | New rules, address for passport agency
PASSPORT AGENCY NEW RULES, ADDRESS The Miami Passport Agency office — long in the Claude Pepper building downtown — has moved to 1501 Biscayne Boulevard, #210.
Half a room or twice the price
Q: I just returned from London, where I had a reservation at the Park Hotel. I had booked the room through Hotwire.com, and was very disappointed with the way things turned out.
You can sleep it off in a luxury, silo bed-and-breakfast
Used to be folks wondered how to get the boys back on the farm after they'd seen Par-ee. Given these hectic urbanized times, it's a wonder anyone living on or visiting a farm would be willing to leave all those bucolic charms behind. Oregon's Abbey Road Farm bed-and-breakfast certainly does its darnedest to make it hard to say adieu.
Traveling by tour in Italy, Spain is money well-spent
Once, I traveled the Americas with one carry-on bag. My husband planned marvelous, thoughtful itineraries to the West, to Mexico and Central America. On arrival in San Jose, in Mexico City or Belize, we bought the topo maps. We cracked the public transportation.
Site along creek gives clues to early civilization
Beer cans crumpled round a dead campfire, signs of late-night partying scorched into the sandstone. In a cut-away 15 feet below the modern fire circle, there's more charred stone, flecked with the shells of Ohio River mussels and the bones of passenger pigeons — both long extinct.
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