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During a recent visit to Florida, I strolled along a section of a trail that provided close-up views of magnificent scenery, rolling beach sand dunes and a virtual aviary of colorful birds. I was walking on part of the Florida National Scenic Trail, a 1,500-mile-long footpath that weaves its way across the state from the Big Cypress National ...Read more

So, yes, I'd heard about Lewis and Clark (that would be Meriwether Lewis and William Clark). And I vaguely knew that Thomas Jefferson had dispatched them to explore the Louisiana Purchase that he had just acquired from France in 1803. But not until my husband and I took an American Cruise Lines expedition of our own to the Snake and Columbia ...Read more

"Why don't you just move there?"

Some friends, knowing what an Anglophile I am (having toured the United Kingdom often, including London 42 times), recently teased me when I commented that of the 55 countries I have visited I would love to spend three months in delightful Windsor, England. It's just a 20-minute taxi ride from Heathrow and about...Read more