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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Jeff King and Mitch Seavey Pre-Iditarod Meet & Greet

February 27, 2009 in Alaska Hotels, Events by Steven
How’s this for good timing? The Inlet Tower Anchorage Hotel & Suites, which I mentioned in last week’s post about the 2009 Iditarod Sled Dog Race, is hosting two Iditarod winners for a Meet & Greet on March 6, the day before the big race kicks off. Mitch Seavey, who came out on top of the arduous [...]

Spring Break on a Budget – The Six Flags Staycation

February 27, 2009 in Events, Family Travel, Holidays, Texas Hotels by Steven
It hurts me to say it, but I know that some of you aren’t going anywhere for Spring Break 2009. As economic turmoil continues to slog about the country like a drunken gorilla, the staycation grows only more popular. I’ve railed again it in the past, but I must accept reality. The staycation is here [...]

St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Washington, D.C.

February 26, 2009 in Events, Family Travel, Holidays, Washington D.C. Hotels by Steven
There’s nothing quite like getting caught up in the spirit of a culture, especially if that culture is Irish, and double-especially if those Irish are in Washington, D.C. Arguably the most beautiful parade city in the world, D.C. is home to countless crowd-pleasing parades, and every year one of the most popular is the St. [...]

Spring Break Beach Vacations – Santa Monica, California

February 26, 2009 in California Hotels, Events, Holidays, Shopping, Spring Break Vacations by Steven
Enough family fun! It’s time for bright, beautiful beaches overflowing with babes, bottles, and the occasional bouncy ball. It’s time for real Spring Break! Being a USA Travel Guide, our knowledge of Mexico hotels is fairly limited, but that doesn’t mean we don’t know a thing or two about hot Spring Break beach vacations. Spring Break [...]

Unusual Spring Break Destinations – Texas Hill Country

February 25, 2009 in Events, Family Travel, Holidays, Outdoor Adventure, Spring Break Vacations, Texas Hotels by Steven
Been there? Done that? Need something new for Spring Break 2009? Consider the Canyon of the Eagles Lodge & Nature Park in the beautiful Texas Hill Country. This could just be the Texan in me talking, but after months of day-to-day grind, phones ringing, voices grumbling, horns honking and everything else, I’m not headed to an [...]

Art Institute of Chicago – Edvard Munch Exhibit

February 25, 2009 in Events, Illinois Hotels, Museums by Steven
One day we’ll have to feature the Art Institute of Chicago in our Pulitzer Prize-winning series “Museums that Matter“*, but today we’re going to focus on a great temporary exhibit they’re running until the last week in April: Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth. One look at Edvard Munch’s most famous work, The Scream (1893), [...]

2009 Spring Break Safety Tips

February 24, 2009 in Features, Spring Break Vacations by Steven
Here at USA Travel Guide we want you to get out there and have a great time for Spring Break, that’s kind of our thing, but we also want you to come back in more or less the same condition. You can have a new tattoo, maybe, and we certainly wouldn’t begrudge you that nice [...]

Eat Up! – Peanut Butter & Co. in New York City

February 23, 2009 in New York Hotels by Steven
Between today’s featured restaurant and our post last month on Juju Cereal Bar in Los Angeles, it’s clear I’ve got a thing for nostalgic eats. All I need now is a diner specializing in Kraft Mac N Cheese (only the blue box, please) and my life is more or less complete. The Peanut Butter & Co. [...]

Spring Break Tips – Cruise Parking

February 23, 2009 in California Hotels, Events, Family Travel, Holidays, Spring Break Vacations by Steven
Looking over last Friday’s piece on Spring Break in San Diego, we realized there was one part of the San Diego family Spring Break scene that we managed to miss completely: cruising. Along with Seattle, Galveston and Miami, San Diego is one of the biggest leisure cruise ports in the country, and every March cruisers [...]

New York City Shopping Guide – The Shops at Riverside

February 20, 2009 in New Jersey Hotels, New York Hotels, Shopping by Steven
I’ve mentioned shopping in New York City before, and no doubt I will again, but as I was looking for a quick topic to write about I thought of the USA Travel Guide Pledge, specifically the point about doing as the locals do. I got to thinking: do New Yorkers really shop on Fifth Avenue, [...]

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