Articles written by Diana Lambdin Meyer
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Route 66 Road Trip Includes Burgers and Diners
Get Your Kicks on Route 66 with a burger at the Golden Light Cafe, a National Historic Landmark and greasy spoon restaurant serving Amarillo Texas since 1946.
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Kansas City BBQ Is A Culinary Road Trip
Memphis BBQ, North Carolina BBQ, Texas BBQ all claim to be the best, but Kansas City is home to the American Royal Barbecue contest and more than 100 barbecue restaurants
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Missouri Wine Comes of Age
The best wine in the United States was once produced in Missouri wine country. Hermann, Missouri was considered the heart of the country's quality wine production.
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Prince Edward Island and Anne of Green Gables
Prince Edward Island is the home of Anne of Green Gables, the beloved novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery about a red-haired girl with a predilection for trouble.
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Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore OK
"I never met a man I didn't like" is the most remembered saying by Will Rogers, a movie star, radio commentator, newspaper columnist and entertainer of the 1920-30s.
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African Safari Experience in Southeast Ohio
Giraffes, rhinos, zebras and other animals more common on the Serengeti or confined to zoos roam freely and give birth on land that had been devastated by strip mines.
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Devils Tower Wyoming Offers Great Rock Climbing
Native Americans consider it a holy place and call it the Bear's Lodge. Scientists call it an igneous rock and for both reasons, it is protected by National Park Service.
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How to Write a Memorable Holiday Newsletter
A cleverly and well-written holiday greeting to friends, family and even co-workers can become a highlight of the holiday season and a family record for years to come.
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Blues Festival Celebrates Delta Heritage
Blues fans know Helena Arkansas as the home of KFFA Radio and the King Biscuit Time blues radio show with Sonny Payne and a great blues music festival each October.
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Fredericksburg TX Is Authentic German Heritage
Founded by German immigrants in the 1846, Fredericksburg Texas, the heart of Hill Country, offers authentic German food, dance and beer just an hour from San Antonio.
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Sonny Liston Learned Boxing in Missouri Prison
Tours of the Missouri State Peniteniary in Jefferson City include the cell where Liston was confined and a mural painted by a fellow inmate after Liston won the title.
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Grateful Dead's Terrapin Station Inspires Beer
The Terrapin Turtle and Grateful Dead were the inspiration for two Dead Heads to create Terrapin Brewey, a local microbrew and live music venue in Athens Georgia.
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Missouri's Katy Trail is Longest Rails to Trails
At 225 miles, the Katy Trail is the longest rails-to-trails project in the United States and crosses the width of the Show Me State from St. Charles to the Kansas border.
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Charlie Brown's Hometown
Charlie Brown's creator lived and worked in Santa Rosa for more than 50 years, but St. Paul Minnesota greatly influenced the creative genius behind Peanuts.
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Old Fashioned Candy Store in Salem Massachusetts
Before the advent of Hershey bars and compound chocolates, before nougat and artificial flavorings, there was only hard candy. Gibralters was a favorite.
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Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Michigan's Upper Peninsula preserves artifacts from more than 6,000 Great Lakes shipwrecks, including the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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Walt Disney's Boyhood Home in Missouri
Although he lived here just four years, Walt Disney said the happiest memories of his life were of living on the farm near Marceline.
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Circus Schools Teach Trapeze, Clowning, Juggling
People of all ages can become students of the circus arts for just a few hours, few days or for life in this circus school in the St. Louis City Museum.
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Gasparilla Pirate Festival In Tampa
Gasparilla Pirate Festival tops Tampa events in January by celebrating the legend of Jose Gaspar with all of Tampa reveling in pirate costumes, throwing beads and more.
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Churchill Museum of America Located In Missouri
Churchill first spoke of the Iron Curtain in a small college gymnasium in Fulton, Missouri. A museum and a sculpture by Churchill's granddaughter commemorate the visit.
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Michigan's Mackinac Island Welcomes Summer
Mackinac Island is open for business from May 1 to September 30 when more than one million visitors experience what has been called America's Summer Place.
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Cherry Blossom Festival Turns Macon Georgia Pink
Yoshino Cherry Trees bloom the last week in March in Macon Georgia. With more than 300,000 trees, the people of Macon say they are pinker than the folks in Washington, DC
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All Inclusive Vacation Destination on St. Lucia
Located in the Windward Islands of the West Indies Lesser Antilles, St. Lucia is washed by the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Caribbean Ocean on the west.
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Healdsburg is Heart of Russian River Wineries
Off-season visits to California wine country present an intriguing landscape and rich opportunity for exploration that travelers in high season do not enjoy.
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Lighthouse Vacations In The Great Lakes Region
Volunteer vacations in Michigan allow guests to spend a week as a lighthouse keeper, sleep in a lighthouse and help teach others about the Great Lakes region.
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John Wayne's Birthplace in Iowa
The irony is seldom lost on visitors to Winterset. How could the tiny house on South Second Street give birth to such a big man whose name and legend spans the world?
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Ice Cream Festival In Iowa Celebrates Blue Bunny
Ice cream treats, parades and picnics are a part of the family fun in LeMars, Iowa, the ice cream capital of the world, where visitors learn the history of ice cream.
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Dude Ranch Vacations In Colorado
A Colorado dude ranch vacation is a great family vacation and Grand County Colorado is home to more dude ranches than any other place in the United States.
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A Tour of Jesse James Sites in Missouri
The James Gang along with their buddies in the Cole Younger gang were alleged to have robbed banks, trains and stagecoaches in six Midwestern states.
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The Two Sides of Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park and the communities of Estes Park and Grand Lake Colorado are great family vacation destinations that include hiking, fishing, and camping .
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Talkeetna Alaska Inspired Northern Exposure
Founded by prospectors in 1915, Talkeetna is fabled to be the inspiration behind the 1990s television show "Northern Exposure."
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Brown County Indiana Artists and Log Cabins
The rugged beauty of Brown County Indiana provides inspiration for artists, an abundance of log cabin rentals for quiet getaways, and unique shopping destination.
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Denali National Park is Alaska's Top Destination
In the Athabascan tongue, Denali means "the great one" or "tall one." At 20,320 feet it is the tallest mountain in North America and a crowning jewel of the park system.
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Glacier Bay is Alaska's Most Visited Nat'l Park
Due to its location on the Inside Passage and the relative ease with which cruise ships can enter Glacier Bay, this has become the most visited of Alaska's national park.
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Best Place to See Whales in Alaska: Kenai Fjords
Capped by the massive Harding Ice Field, Kenai Fjords' status as a national park is defined by the concentration of deep fjords and hanging and tidewater glaciers.
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Glacier Hiking In Wrangell-St. Elias Nat'l Park
Wrangell-St. Elias is the largest U.S. national park and includes glacier hiking, wilderness tours, back-country camping and the world's largest copper mine in Kennecott.
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La Sagrada Familia Nears Completion
The first stone for La Sagrada Familia was laid in 1882 and 125 years later, services are soon to be held in Barcelona's Temple of Atonement to the Holy Family.
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Whale Watching and Kite Flying On Oregon Coast
The Pacific Ocean brings whales, Asian fishing globes and great winds for flying a kite to the Norman Rockwell-style communities of Lincoln County.
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University of Okoboji Iowa
Lake Okoboji is one of five lakes in northwest Iowa that provide recreation in the summer and winter months and a fantasy university supported by alumni around the world.
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Allman Brothers' Favorite Macon Restaurant
Mama Louise Hudson fed the Allman Brothers when they didn't have a penny to call their own and eventually toured with Greg and Duane Allman.
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How To Ride A Camel on An Egyptian Vacation
Riding a camel is different from riding a horse or most any other four-legged creature. And riding a camel the wrong way results in bruises, soreness and embarrassment.
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Shave Ice on Oahu's North Shore
Matsumoto Shave Ice has been an institution on O'ahu's North Shore since 1951 and is well known on the Hawaiian Islands for using azuki beans in their special snow cones
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Surf Board Art Studio on O'ahu's North Shore
O'ahu's North Shore in January, and particularly the beach at Haleiwa, is considered the world's top surfing destination and where the world's best surfers compete.
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Smoky Mountains Make A Great Outdoor Vacation
The Great Smoky Mountain National Park, on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee, is a year-round vacation destination for hiking, fishing, camping and wildlife
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Door County Fish Boil
Door County Wisconsin is the only place in North America famous for boiled fish dinners. It may be the accompanying cherry pie that everyone really comes for.
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Tucson Celebrates Ted deGrazia's Art
Ted deGrazia, celebrated Arizona artist, would have been 100 years old in 2009. His Gallery in the Sun in Tucson is a vacation destination in Arizona.
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Telluride Colorado Celebrates All & Nothing
This Colorado ski resort tucked away in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado throws parties at least 30 times a year celebrating everything from balloons to blues
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Winter Hikes in Banff National Park
Winter adventure in Banff National Park comes without the crowds, but pristine scenery in ice covered glacier-carved canyon that includes waterfalls and wildlife.
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Nativity Remains From World War 2 Camp in Iowa
Nativity is focal point of Algona Iowa community that was home to thousands of German and Japanese prisoners during second world war.
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World War 1 Museum in Kansas City
The first world war received a national museum in Kansas City 90 years after the end of the war to end all wars left only poppies to remember the war dead.
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Ski Vacations in Banff National Park
Banff National Park in the Alberta province is Canada's first and most popular park. The three ski resorts are Norquay, Sunshine Village and Lake Louise.
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Fun at Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks
Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks has more shoreline than the state of California and activities all year long for people of all interests.
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