The Birches for X-C Skiing!
By Roland Leiser and Ed Kreuser OK, it’s a bit of a journey to get here but diehard cross-country skiers will find Nordic nirvana at The Birches, a rustic resort in Maine’s north woods. One of the state’s 25 cross-country ski areas,...
Mobile, Southwest Alabama’s Scintillating Seaport
By Dorothea S. Michelman Mobile, which celebrated its tricentennial just last year, owes its name to a happy juxtaposition of cross-cultural communication and historic circumstance. A variation on the familiar story of tourists stumbling over words in...
VIRGIN DIVE
By Ernie Alderete The U.S. Virgin Islands: St. John. St. Thomas, St. Croix, and new member of the family, Water Island, offer an amazingly wide range of soft adventure water sports, including one of only two commercial submarines in the world. There is...
Alabama’s Gulf Coast Bounces Back
By Kathie Farnell The 32 miles of white sandy beaches along Alabama’s southern border took a beating from 2004′s Hurricane Ivan. However, the area has reopened for business in time for the summer 2005 vacation season. For those plotting a...
Floribama?
Story and photos by Andrew Der This is not Florida – yet if brought here blindfolded, I defy anyone to convince me otherwise. White sand, blue water, heat, palm trees – all the ingredients necessary for a subtropical experience are present...
