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It’s so easy to love Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hofsas House Hotel. Photo by Courtney Drake-McDonough. In our expanded post about Carmel-by-the-Sea, we said that visiting Carmel is like coming home, even if you’ve never been there before. It’s such a charming, small-scale, safe, friendly place. Part of that feeling of “home” comes from where you call your home base during your stay. For us, that was th...

Paola Legarre, owner of Sage Creations Organic Farm in her beautiful lavender fields in Palisade, Colorado. Lavender plants have a long and storied past. They have been used for centuries for food, health and beauty purposes. And beautiful it is, in varying shades of blue, growing in mounds in vast fields. Colorado will host its annual Lavender Festival June 29-July 1, 2018 in Grand Junction, on t...

Devil’s Thumb Ranch is only about an hour outside of Denver, yet the Colorado ranch feels a world away. It’s the perfect place to get in touch with your inner cowboy or cowgirl (that you might not have known was lurking). You can read more about it, here. We had the opportunity to sit down with former Executive Chef Josh Bettis who, relatively new to the Ranch and to Colorado, is responsible for a...

Typically, when one wants to have a camping experience, they need to hit the road, head to the hills or otherwise be pretty isolated from the rest of civilization. But there’s a new type of camping area, just minutes from the heart of Savannah, Georgia that allows people to get in some wilderness time (with leanings toward glamping), yet take in some shopping, strolling and dining in the city, nea...

When Lia Huber came to town on her book tour, I was so ready to meet her! I’d gotten a good start on her book, “NOURISHED: A Memoir of Food, Faith & Enduring Love (with Recipes),” and loved it. She did such a wonderful job of describing her travels, her issues and the food she experienced that I felt like I was right along with her. We met at a coffee house downtown, with construction trucks a...