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For America's 250th birthday celebrations, there's no more fitting place to reflect on the nation's founding than Saratoga County, New York -- home to the Battles of Saratoga. These monumental fights for independence are widely recognized as the turning point of the American Revolution and are among the most significant battles in world history....Read more

There's a memorable scene in the 1937 film "Lost Horizon" when Ronald Coleman, freezing to death in a snowy mountain pass, stumbles through a fissure in the rocks and looks down on the sun-drenched valley of Shangri-La. You might experience the same sense of wonder when you discover Baja California's Valle de Guadalupe -- Mexico's Napa Valley.

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The sun is beginning to set over northern Baja California's Valle de Guadalupe -- the Napa Valley of Mexico. Long shadows are spreading across the vineyards of the El Cielo Resort and Winery, setting its terra-cotta villas aglow.

High above the long rows of grapevines a large hawk with red-tinged feathers is making lazy circles in the sky. Then...Read more