A Double Dose of Adirondack Lore—Lake Placid & Saranac Lake Hotel Saranac—Saranac Lake’s hilltop hospitality palace The evergreen Adirondack Park Region is comprised of 12 counties encompassing 92 towns. Three neighboring communities—the Tri-Lakes—in the High Peaks region have worldly reputations… Bruce Northam , February 23, 2021
9 Stops to Make on a Nebraska Road Trip Big times in small towns. Nebraska has more miles of rivers than any other state in the U.S. and it’s definitely not just what you see off of Interstate 80…. Bruce Northam , January 6, 2020
The Southern Bahamas Remain Open for Business I visited the Bahamas with my daughter two weeks before Hurricane Dorian devastated its northern islands. While it’s important that Nassau and Paradise Island in the southern Bahamas were spared… Bruce Northam , October 18, 2019
Oheka Castle: A Long Island Escape Fit for a Queen (or Two) As opposed to venturing afar on Presidents Day (week) to ski or tan, I skipped the inescapable crowds and took two eighth-graders—my daughter Bella and her pal—on what we coined… Bruce Northam , April 25, 2019
Travel Book of the Week: “The Directions to Happiness: A 135-Country Quest for Life Lessons” by Bruce Northam This week I’m featuring a book from Bruce Northam—a friend and frequent contributor—that I somehow have never written up on the site. “The Directions to Happiness: A 135-Country Quest for… Johnny Jet , February 20, 2019
Boise: Not Predicting Idaho’s Future, Reinventing It A city of trees, music, street art, cuisine, uplifting beverages, watersports…and Basque shepherds who ran away with the American dream Move over America’s hip cities, here comes Boise. Really more… Bruce Northam , September 24, 2018
Garnet Hill Lodge: An Adirondack Gem When I was eight-years old I was climbing the stairs inside New York state’s Gore Mountain ski lodge when the hooks of my opposing lace-up ski boots hitched and sent… Bruce Northam , July 25, 2018
Big Noise and Poise in Wilmington, Delaware I love underdog destinations…and, who knew that Wilmington, DE, was a music festival town? A driving force in Wilmington’s return to being a dandy place to visit is the continuing… Bruce Northam , June 28, 2018
Wandering West of Portland: Oregon’s Tualatin Valley A string of small suburban Pacific Northwest outposts merges farm country with hip havens. What lies beyond fabled Portland, Oregon? To the west, a gorgeous, thriving agricultural county called Washington—aka… Bruce Northam , April 20, 2018
The Dogfish Universe: Beer Elevated, Delaware-Style The Dogfish Head beer experience is truly a rite of passage for the American beer aficionado. While upstate New York as a kid, my dad drank Utica Club beer—the PBR… Bruce Northam , April 9, 2018
Revisiting a Hard Rock State of Mind at the Hard Rock Hotel San Diego Then: Horsing around with Robin Williams Before embarking on my first extended tour of Asia, I drove a horse-drawn carriage around midtown Manhattan. It was the mid-80s, and I worked the… Bruce Northam , September 12, 2017
A Short Guide to Baltimore’s Mount Vernon Unrehearsed warmth in America’s accessible Old Town. Just as NYC’s Upper East Side is culturally a hundred miles removed from Times Square, north of downtown Baltimore’s Mount Vernon is a… Bruce Northam , April 7, 2017
Ontario’s Blue Mountains: Canada’s Heavenly Take on the Wintertime Blues A daddy-daughter team unfold their Canadian vacation—and life—like a map, understanding they can’t always refold them the same way. Sometimes, my daughter Bella and I don’t worry about who is… Bruce Northam , March 10, 2017
Varanasi’s Circus of the Senses: India’s Watery Promised Land Varanasi, Grand Central Station for the Hindu pilgrimage, is in Uttar Pradesh, the fourth-largest of India’s 29 states. The holy city of Varanasi is on many wish lists, and for… Bruce Northam , February 17, 2017
Cancun & Cozumel, the InterContinental Presidente Way Cancun’s Native Son What Happens When Resorts Are Grandfathered In In the 1970s, the Mexican government eyed each of its 32 states to create the ultimate resort city. Cancun won… Bruce Northam , December 19, 2016
