What are some of the best Christmas travel destinations in the USA and around the world? Here are our suggestions for the best Christmas travel ideas whether you travel Around the World or Across the Street™.
While traveling, my wife, Susan, and I often find unique gifts that we pick up for our friends and family. We might be strolling through an open-air market and see just the right thing for a particular person. Often we learn something about where the item comes...
I always associated Waterford Crystal with Christmas. For the first few years of my marriage, I would congregate with others in the early morning darkness outside a department store, waiting to be one of the first to buy drastically marked down Christmas décor....
In the fragrant Ponderosa pine woods, just 2 hours north of Phoenix, is a small city full of the Christmas spirit. With the colorful lights of historic Courthouse Square, two parades with unique local units, and an amazing night of musicians in more than 100...
Salt Lake City, Utah goes all out at Christmas to provide visitors with a total holiday experience complete with magical lights, music, and an authentic German Christmas Market. The month of December through New Year’s is the time to visit Salt Lake City to get...
This article was one I wrote in December 1991 for Saturday Northwest, a now-defunct newspaper in Northwest Colorado. I chose to include it in its entirety below. Keep in mind this was just months after many of the former "Soviet" states were recognized as...
Lower Lonsdale is a historic neighborhood in the heart of North Vancouver, British Columbia. This waterfront gem is known for its shipbuilding, indoor market, restaurants, shops, and fantastic views of the Vancouver skyline. Vancouver's North Shore invited me to...
This article originally ran on Wander With Wonder in 2017. All dates and information have been updated for Holiday Season 2018. San Franciscans are known for being different and the holidays are no exception. Instead of riding on a one-horse open sleigh they sing...
I love custom gifts and when they’re made with love that makes it special. I was thrilled when I discovered Baltimore-based Words With Boards, which creates beautiful custom cutting boards. When I received my lovely round Wander board as a courtesy from the...
At the Lewis house it’s not really Christmas without weekly bakes of spicy fruit-filled individual mince pies. These butter-crusted sweets are a generational part of Karen Lewis’s heritage. Even though her British family of four has called Boston home for the last...
This Christmas at The Princess article originally appeared on Fairmont Moments on December 6, 2017. A magical wonderland comes to the Desert Southwest every winter from Thanksgiving through New Year's Eve with the arrival of the Christmas at the Princess...