SoCal colleague’s question: My wife and I are taking our kids (two teens, one tween) to Deer Valley for a weekend. It’s the first time we’ll be there outside of ski season. What do you recommend?
I recommend an itinerary heavy on outdoorsy variety and memory-making.
Four very-non-locals go ridiculously non-covert to face buzzing bandsaws, lead-footed trolley drivers and 2,000 metric tons of fish — and emerge triumphant, if a bit smelly.
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Nestled cozily in adjoining alpine valleys, Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen offer immersive alpine sublimity to visitors of every ability. This hike is well-suited to even the youngest and oldest of hikers with a detectable pulse and at least one good knee.
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The vague, prejudicial idea I’d held of Cancun as a cliché or a Mexidisney has been proven wrong, and I suspect that the Riviera Maya is as engagingly diverse a destination as you’re going to find in this hemisphere.
From the Pantheon to Trastevere, it’s short, flat and fabulous — and brimming with romantic potential. Worst case, you get some decent gelato.
Our visit to Munich’s BMW Welt leads my buddy to believe that I am Beelzebub, intent on destroying him, body and soul alike. The feeling is mutual.
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Microcentro, as it’s known locally, is the capital’s political, financial and historical center, whose perimeter is defined more or less by the avenues 9 de Julio to the west and 25 de Mayo to the south, and everywhere else by the Rio de la Plata.
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