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The sun is beginning to set over northern Baja California's Valle de Guadalupe -- the Napa Valley of Mexico. Long shadows are spreading across the vineyards of the El Cielo Resort and Winery, setting its terra-cotta villas aglow.

High above the long rows of grapevines a large hawk with red-tinged feathers is making lazy circles in the sky. Then...Read more

Greece has somewhere between 3,000 and 6,000 islands. Even at the lower number that is a lot of islands, and only a fraction, fewer than 300, are inhabited, some by fewer than 100 people. All are historic, and my cruise, which combined mainland Greece ports with island stops, offered exploration of three of the larger islands as we sailed from ...Read more

River walks, lowing cows and mineral soaks in a centuries-old bathhouse anchored our restorative getaway in the Allegheny Mountains of Bath County, Virginia. My husband and I wanted a quiet nature retreat within a four-hour drive of the noisy politics and population of Washington, D.C. We chose Fort Lewis Lodge and Farm in Millboro. Situated in ...Read more