By Jack Dunphy If you are lucky enough to find yourself in Big Bear Lake California a must visit is the Wine Room. After your day of skiing at Snow Summit or hiking or any of the numerous outdoor activities here the Wine Room offers a delightful place to relax. […]
We drove across southern California today, from Big Bear Lake down a winding road, plunging from 7000 feet to sea level and across the state to the coast to Ventura. The drought stricken landscape included vast empty streambeds and vegetation that looked like it would catch on fire any minute. […]
With the sun shining and the temps hovering in the low 50s, we joined Action Segway Tours for a chance to tour the town on their most elegant two-wheeled vehicles, offering speeds up to 14 mph and an easy 360 turning radius. Joining us were four young adults dressed in […]
Dallas Goldsmith is a Big Bear guy down to his toes. He grew up here, and then moved away and to be a golf pro at the Presidio, in San Francisco. But the pull of the family business and the perks of being stockholders at the local ski areas, Big […]
We took a scenic drive up a winding mountain road and as the temperature dropped and the altitude soared, we finally reached Big Bear Lake tonight. Soon it was time to meet a local resident and find out what people are talking about up here in this resort community with […]
Art McLean passed away in May, 2013 in his Sunderland home. He had a long, happy career at the Valley Advocate and in later life he had difficulty getting around after a broken leg hobbled him and kept him from his beloved walks in the woods. He was 66 years […]
I decided to take up running after my gym membership expired and I got tired of having to drive to Greenfield every day just to get a work-out. I decided that if I did a short burst, say, 25-30 minutes of running every day it would accomplish much the same […]
I am burning the midnight oil getting ready for something I do every year. I am speaking about travel photography at the New York Times Travel show on Saturday. So I have to prepare my slides and feel reasonably comfortable that I can speak for a 50 minute session. It’s […]
This is an exciting year for tourism in Winnipeg, with two big attractions opening in the summer and fall that will bring thousands more visitors to the city. Besides the tremendous Canadian Human Rights Museum, the new Journey to Churchill at the Assiniboine Park Zoo is going to excite and […]
Don Finkbeiner has a favorite place to take his tour guide clients when they visit Winnipeg. He showed me the Exchange district, the city’s bustling arts and entertainment area, as well as St Boniface, the French-speaking community across the Assiniboine River. He talked of the incredible wealth that came to […]
Want to put a relatively small city on the map forever? Build a $351 million state-of-the-art interactive museum about human rights, and make the building so spectacular that it looks like nothing ever built before. That’s what’s happening in Winnipeg and the big party happens this September. I got a […]
Flying in February 2014 is a tough business, not for the faint of heart. I set out to Bradley hoping to catch an 11:25 am flight to Minneapolis, then another flight to Winnipeg Manitoba. But as the appointed hour grew near they began making announcements about a strange vibration in […]