Day: January 24, 2013

Go Girl: Escape in Style with EverGreen Escapes

“Is that our tour van?” Super G asks me as EverGreen Escapes’ Mercedes Sprinter van pulls up in front of Seattle’s train station. Nothing says style like the first impression, I was tickled by Super G’s expression as Dan Salvatora, our escape artist, what EverGreen Escapes calls its tour guides, opened the door of the van and helped us step up into our seats along with another guest for our half-day wine tour of one of Washington State’s wine regions.

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Cleveland's Terminal Tower, viewed from Public Square, was lit up with the rainbow colors earlier this year to promote Gay Games 9 in 2014. (Photo: Larry E. Highbaugh, Jr.)

Cleveland Begins Preparations For Gay Games 9

Cleveland officially rolled out the rainbow carpet to Gay Games 9 athletes this month with the opening of early hotel reservations and a preview of the city’s iconic Terminal Tower lit in rainbow colors.

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See Portland As Never Before

I have been to Portland several times to visit one of my best friends who moved there a few years ago with her husband. The number of times I’ve visited didn’t equate knowing the Rose City. It was simply a place, with the world’s largest independently- and woman-owned bookstore, Powell’s Books (I confess I’m a bibliophile), not a city that I started to really get to know up until my last visit.

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