When I flew home to Midway Airport last week on Southwest Airlines, I thought back to my first flight on Southwest.It was one you can't forget.I'd been visiting my grandparents in Santa Fe over the winter holidays during my sophomore year of college. So it was early 1990 … [Read more...]
A little bit country
My trip to Arizona got me thinking about something. I've always considered myself a city person. Given a choice between New York City or Florida, I'd choose New York. Hong Kong versus Phuket? Hong Kong hands down.But then last week I found myself driving south from Sedona … [Read more...]
El Tovar Hotel
Little did I know when I set out for Arizona last week that I'd run into a couple of historic hotels.Last Thursday my husband and I drove a few hours north to the Grand Canyon. It's one of our country's national treasures, and neither of us had visited it in our previous … [Read more...]
Rest and Relaxation in Sedona
I'll be taking a short break from the blog this week as I head out to Sedona for a little R&R.Armed with a bag of books and no computer, I look forward to reading more about late 19th century Shanghai. And if I finish those 500+ pages, I'll delve into a memoir about a … [Read more...]
Palace Hotel, Shanghai
With the all the fanfare of the renovations at the Peace Hotel in Shanghai, its southern neighbor and one-time annex has met with fewer bells and whistles, but a grand restoration just the same.I first learned about the annex when I stayed at the Peace Hotel in 1995. At … [Read more...]
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