Flight Crews Strike for Bathrooms on Cargo Planes – AOL Travel
Posted by admin in Travel Writing on 18. Sep, 2009 | No Comments
Flight Crews Strike for Bathrooms on Cargo Planes
Bears Invade Aspen, Colorado: A Brief Round Up
Posted by admin in Blog on 05. Sep, 2009 | No Comments
It’s that time of year again in our fabled mountain town. As the summer sun begins to wane and cast autumn’s long, golden mountain shadows, the local high country black bruins are in a calorie-cramming feeding frenzy.
Bears Invade Aspen, Colorado: A Brief Round Up
Top 10 Places to Road Trip Around Aspen, Colorado
Posted by admin in Aspen, Showcase, Travel Writing on 28. Aug, 2009 | No Comments
Aspen’s breathtaking alpine backdrop is known to intoxicate, tempting visitors into staying in the Roaring Fork Valley much longer than originally anticipated. Many well-seasoned Aspenites call this geographical magnetism the “Curse of the Ute” and one of the reasons so many visitors-turned-residents have a difficult time returning to the rat race of their previous lives outside Colorado.
Aspen Whitewater Rafting: An Overview of Rafting Trips on the Roaring Fork and Arkansas Rivers
Posted by admin in Aspen, Travel Writing on 25. Aug, 2009 | No Comments
If you’ve never been on the river with a professional whitewater raft guide, there’s really only one part of the trip to mentally preparing for: bad humor that makes one smirk, then cringe:
What’s the difference between a raft guide and a large pizza?
A large pizza can feed a family of four.
An Interview with Best-selling Author Ishmael Beah
Posted by admin in Aspen, Blog, Interviews, Showcase on 18. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
It’s not the type of thing you expect to hear from an accomplished author. On the second day of the Aspen Summer Words Literary Festival, Ishmael Beah, the one-time child solider in the Sierra Leone civil war and author of A Long Way Gone, glanced around the room after being asked about his forthcoming novel. His eyes landed on his co-presenter, Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and admitted, “I feel it is unhealthy for me to write another memoir.”
The Top 10 Places to Dine Al Fresco in Aspen, Colorado
Posted by admin in Aspen, Lifestyle Writing on 18. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
Using a little imagination, dining al fresco in Aspen’s thin Rocky Mountain air is like dining in sylvan realm of Fairyland, the fictitious setting of Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream . Many bistros and cafes in this charming Victorian ski town pride themselves on well-appointed porches, patios, and decks in woodsy settings with postcard-perfect mountain panoramas and menus of artisan haute cuisine.
An Exclusive Interview with Mario Batali
Posted by admin in Aspen, Interviews, Lifestyle Writing on 18. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
What makes dining in Aspen so special? According to chef Mario Batali, it’s because of a “kind of hippy, laid back approach to local and serious food.” Known for colorful television appearances, best-selling books, signature Orange Crocs, and a sophisticated coterie of Italian eateries in New York, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, I caught up with Batali via e-mail before touching down in Aspen to attend the 27th Annual Food & Wine Classic.
The 10 Best Aspen Summer Pool Scenes
Posted by admin in Aspen, Travel Writing on 18. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
While the pool scene in Vegas and Miami is hardly under-the-radar, Aspen’s pool scene is one of its best-kept summer secrets.
Aspen Ideas Festival: A Guide to Who Said What at the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival
Posted by admin in Aspen, Blog, Showcase on 18. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
In the context of ski town slang, “Go big” is the type of gnarly, half-baked euphemism usually reserved for adrenaline-fueled physical prowess on the slopes or throwing back one more shot-and-a-beer before last call.
Ten Great Books putting Aspen on the American Literary Map
Posted by admin in Aspen, Blog, Travel Writing on 18. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
For decades devoted bookworms and “Dead Poets Society” quoting high school English teachers have flocked to Hemingway’s Key West, Tennessee Williams’ New Orleans, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s New York, Steinbeck’s Monterey, Ginsberg’s and Kerouac’s San Francisco, Faulkner’s Mississippi, and Robert Frost’s New England on their summer vacations to celebrate the authors who worked there and assess the creative muses inspiring the great works of American literature associated with these locales. Yet, for whatever reason, well-read literati and travel list arbiters have never ranked Aspen, Colorado on the lists of great American literary destinations.
