Hawaii Travel Information and Travel Guide - USA. It's easy to see why Hawaii has become synonymous with paradise.
Just look at these sugary beaches, Technicolor coral reefs and volcanoes beckoning adventurous spirits. Kaleidoscopic Culture Floating all by itself in the middle of the Pacific, Hawaii proudly maintains its own identity apart from the US mainland. Southeastern Utah Travel Information and Travel Guide - USA. Nicknamed Canyon Country, this desolate corner of Utah is home to soaring snow-blanketed peaks towering over plunging red-rock river canyons.
The terrain is so inhospitable that it was the last region to be mapped in the continental US. Over 65 million years, water carved serpentine, sheer-walled gorges along the course of the Colorado and Green Rivers, which define the borders of Canyonlands National Park, Utah’s largest. Nearby Arches National Park encompasses more rock arches than anywhere else worldwide.
Grand Canyon National Park Travel Information and Travel Guide - USA. No matter how much you read about the Grand Canyon or how many photographs you've seen, nothing really prepares you for the sight of it.
One of the world's seven natural wonders, it's so startlingly familiar and iconic you can't take your eyes off it. The canyon's immensity, the sheer intensity of light and shadow at sunrise or sunset, even its very age, scream for superlatives. At about two billion years old – half of Earth's total life span – the layer of Vishnu Schist at the bottom of the canyon is some of the oldest exposed rock on the planet. Colorado Travel Information and Travel Guide - USA. Colorado was cool with the college crowd long before MTV’s cameras caught on.
No, the seven strangers on the hit reality show The Real World Denver weren’t the first to dig this funky Rocky Mountain High. Their contemporaries have been flocking to the Centennial State for decades to participate in a uniquely Colorado coming-of-age ritual: the act of ski-bumming (definition: living in a mountain ski resort town such as Breckenridge, working in the service industry and riding as much fresh powder as possible in between). And it’s not just the college crowd. Colorado has been catching Californians, New Yorkers and Washingtonians faster than a fly-fisher can snare a cutthroat trout on the Platte River. Simply said, Colorado is a great place to live and play, and common knowledge among the locals is that once you taste that ‘Rocky Mountain High’ John Denver used to croon about you’ll get so addicted to the atmosphere, altitude and attitude you’ll never leave.
Read more. Texas Travel Information and Travel Guide - USA. A darn sight bigger than a whole heap of countries, Texas is largely diverse: big-city lights to small-town simplicity; white-sand beaches to high-country hikes.
Why I Love Texas by Lisa Dunford, Author Criss-crossing the state in the 22 years I've called Texas home, I've learned that there isn't much I don't love: hiking to a riverside hot-spring hot-tub made out of adobe ruins and peering across to Mexico from Big Bend; two-stepping in a giant, family-filled tent with the man who would become my husband at the Refugio county rodeo; listening to Ray Price sing 'Crazy Arms' at John T Floore's Country Store... And the folks here are just as friendly as can be; seems like each time I visit a new place, I come away with new friends.
That's Country Country is as much about a way of life as a place. Fun Foods. New Orleans Travel Information and Travel Guide - USA. A heady confluence of the haughty European and the boisterous third-world, New Orleans is often referred to as the northernmost Caribbean city.
Precious architecture stands alongside careening overloaded junk trucks, sumptuous delicacies tickle palates while offal in the streets offends the eyes. Never be in a hurry, and any time you step outside, be ready for a meandering conversation with a total stranger. In August 2005 New Orleans' various strata were laid bare when Hurricane Katrina lashed the city and levee breaks left residents scrambling for their lives. But even after her hardships, the town’s unofficial motto and pervading gestalt is Laissez les bons temps rouler (Let the good times roll). New York City Travel Information and Travel Guide - USA. 'As for New York City, it is a place apart.
There is not its match in any other country in the world.' Pearl S Buck Lady Liberty One hundred years ago the torch-wielding icon, clad in copper greens, welcomed the ‘tired, poor, and huddled masses’ – she was quite the sight for sore eyes after a long journey from the other end of the globe. Today, Lady Liberty stands guard over a modern set of human pursuits.
A New York Minute Although the city may present itself as rather straightforward – especially when one navigates the relentless stripes of perpendicular gridiron – New York is infinitely complex; it’s intricate parts twisting in tandem like the cogs of a clock. Take A Bite of the Big Apple The Big Apple is, more than anything else, a wildly diverse urban ecosystem, and there’s no better way to access the city’s cornucopia of cultures than through the dinner plate. It's Up to You... …New York New York. Why I Love New York By Brandon Presser, Author My favorite spot? Read more. Savannah Travel Information and Travel Guide - USA. Like a Southern belle with a split personality, this grand historic town revolves around formal antebellum architecture and unbridled public debauchery.
It sits alongside the Savannah River, about 18 miles from the coast, amid Lowcountry swamps and mammoth live oak trees dripping with Spanish moss. With its gorgeous mansions, cotton warehouses and Colonial public buildings, Savannah preserves its past with pride, grace and a slight smirk. Unlike its sister city of Charleston, SC, which retains its reputation as a dignified and refined cultural center, Savannah revels in being the bad girl – the town has been described as ‘a beautiful lady with a dirty face,’ and in some ways it resembles a pint-sized New Orleans.
Savannah loves its sinful pleasures, be they cheese grits, cocktails, or the bump and grind of partying local students. Savannah has a somber side, but she never takes herself too seriously. Read more. Palm Springs & Coachella Valley Travel Information and Travel Guide - USA. The Rat Pack is back, baby, or at least its hangout is.
In the 1950s and ‘60s, Palm Springs, some 100 miles east of LA, was the swinging getaway of Sinatra, Elvis and dozens of other stars, partying the night away in fancy estate homes. California Travel Information and Travel Guide - USA. The moment you arrive in the Golden State, you may suspect you’ve been cast as the ingenue in a road-trip movie.
Everything seems staged for a script riddled with exclamation points: no way are they going to surf those skyscraper-sized waves at Mavericks! That can’t be the Terminator in the governor’s mansion – in his second term! Brrrrrrr...don’t all those naked people ever get cold?! Even if you’ve seen it on TV, California still comes as a shock to the system.
The Venice Beach's skateboarders, San Francisco's same-sex-wedding planners, Santa Cruz's wild-mushroom hunters, Rodeo Dr-pillaging trophy wives and cheerful San Diego's doomsday cult members aren’t on different channels. Unless you want to stir up old NorCal/SoCal rivalries dating from the 19th century – a diverting local pastime when played with good sports – don’t get Californians started about water. Ready to go? These tours & activities make it easy: Read more.