Checking It Out

Checking It Out

Big Easy: Good food, music and fun
New Orleans isn’t for the faint of heart. So if you’re offended by transvestites, topless women, sex toy shops, all-hours bars, the sight of people purging in the street and other visions of light-hearted debauchery, read no further, because the Big Easy is not for you.

March 7, 2012
Hard Rock Resort: Gaming, dining, fun and relaxation, all in one!
The Tulsa-area partnership with the Cherokee Nation promises to be a success.

December 1, 2010
Walt Disney World, Part 4
Anytime my husband and I schedule a few days of vacation, checking out good restaurants tops our list of things to do.

October 22, 2010 4 Photos
Walt Disney World, Part 3
When it comes to travel, I count myself extremely lucky. For one thing, I have family in a few ultimate vacation spots, and they’re always happy to put up with me for a couple of days.

October 22, 2010 4 Photos
Walt Disney World, Part 2
How long do you need at Walt Disney World to enjoy every attraction, every restaurant and every recreational outlet? Do you have two months to spare?
Probably not, unless you’re retired and blessed with a recent lottery win.

October 20, 2010 4 Photos
Walt Disney World, Part 1
When you step into the enchanting world created in 1971 by Walt Disney, on what was once an expanse of uninviting swampland, you can literally leave behind whatever troubles you have, if only for a few days.

October 19, 2010 4 Photos
While in Chicago, take in a game or two
Thursday was our last full day in the Windy City, and once we finally rolled out of bed, we were en route for U.S. Cellular Field to take in a White Sox Game. Not that we’re Sox fans, mind you – they just happened to be playing the Angels, which my son considers “his” team.

July 14, 2010 3 Photos
Chicago is architecture aficionado's paradise
Chicago is an architecture aficionado's ultimate paradise. Thanks to the Great Fire of the 1880s (and, in popular legend, the clumsy or recalcitrant nature of Mrs. O'Leary's cow), the city could be rebuild according to a splendidly harmonized scheme, rather than the ramshackle fashion through which most urban areas take shape over time.

July 14, 2010 2 Photos
Day 4 (Tuesday) in the Windy City
It might be hard to believe you can get good Cajun food in a place as far north from New Orleans as you can get without pronouncing “about” without the “o” (that’s a-BUTT, for those of you not in the know). But you can, and that’s how we started the day Tuesday, July 6, in the Windy City.

July 8, 2010
Travelogue Chicago: Days 2 and 3
A few people have asked me, “What’s there to do in Chicago?” A more appropriate query would be, “What’s not to do?” Take your pick. And since we’ll be here less than a week, we won’t even scratch the surface.

July 8, 2010
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