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The personal-finance site WalletHub recently ranked all 50 states by 26 fun factors, ranging from beach quality to casinos per capita. Source: WalletHub This post contains affiliate links. For more information, click here. And the winner is California, which placed first in number of restaurants, fitness centers, and movie and performing-arts theaters per capita. Florida… Read More United States of Fun
If you live in Honolulu, where do you go on vacation? Based on a recent study from WalletHub, the answer might be “nowhere”. The personal-finance site rated the Hawaiian capital as America’s best city for a staycation. This post contains affiliate links. For more information, click here. It’s not hard to see why. Honolulu is certainly… Read More Five Things to Explore in Honolulu
Ah, summer! that balmy season when the normal rules don’t apply. The daylight is long; the weather is warm. The clothing is casual, and so is the attitude. It’s a time of reward, the few weeks’ sabbatical when we can relax, buoyed by the accomplishments of the past nine months. And it’s a fine season… Read More How to Plan a Summer Road Trip
The Outer Banks are a string of barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina. Quiet, but saturated with history, they’re a thoughtful person’s paradise, nurturing the delicious and slightly rebellious sense of surrender that comes with leaving the mainland and its expectations behind for a few days. I’ve been on trips ranging from a… Read More 10 Things to Do on North Carolina’s Outer Banks
Magnolia Plantation in South Carolina boasts the last intact large-scale romantic gardens in the United States. This post contains affiliate links. For more information, click here. But Magnolia’s history and her gardens go back a century before there was a United States, when Ann and Thomas Drayton established the rice plantation in 1676 along the Ashley… Read More Magnolia Plantation & Gardens in South Carolina
“The world is a book,” observed St. Augustine, “and those who do not travel read only a page.” One of the few good things about this past crazy year is that it’s allowed us more time to read literal books, but it sure has robbed us of the edifying benefits of travel. Fortunately, we do… Read More 100 Best U.S. Summer Travel Destinations
The Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon is a quirky museum in Charleston, South Carolina, and a backdrop to some of the defining events in American history. It ranks near Boston’s Faneuil Hall and Philadelphia’s Independence Hall among the most significant still-standing buildings from the Revolutionary era. Finished in 1771, the two-storey, Palladian-style, stone Exchange and… Read More Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon in Charleston
Charleston’s Battery and Rainbow Row faded from view as my travel companion and I sailed aboard the ferry toward Fort Sumter, perched on a small island in Charleston Harbor, site of the first battle in America’s bloodiest war. The five-sided Fort was planned during the 1820s, in the wake of the War of 1812, designed… Read More Fort Sumter
