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SquareLogo.jpg My Travel Blog
More Time to Travel
May 2012

I recently launched a new travel blog to better showcase my travel writing. Please visit: www.MoreTimeToTravel.com.

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Pool.jpg Green Luxury: The Bardessono Hotel in Napa Valley, California
NBC Universal Life Goes Strong
April 2012

If "green luxury" sounds like an oxymoron, a stay at the Bardessono hotel in Yountville, California, dispels that notion. The hotel is a perfect blend of elegance and energy efficiency. With geothermal heating and solar panels, the ultra-contemporary property, which opened in 2009, uses almost no offsite energy. Remarkably, it is one of only two hotels in the U.S. that has achieved LEED platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council...

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BSolomonCmedDR.jpg The First All-Inclusive Vacations: Reminiscences of Club Med
NBC Universal Life Goes Strong
April 2012

If Club Med were a living person, this grand-daddy of all-inclusive vacations would become eligible for Social Security this year—soon after turning 62. Many mid-lifers have grown up contemporaneously alongside Club Med, which was first founded in 1950 by two Europeans who firmly believed that vacations should both excite and rejuvenate the traveler without any hassles. Internationally recognized artist and designer Pablo Solomon of Lampasas, Texas and his wife, Beverly, took their first Club Med vacation in the mid-1970s—

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Monica Bhide-creditLucySchaeffer.jpeg Indian Cuisine: A Spicy Chat with Cookbook Author, Monica Bhide
NBC Universal Life Goes Strong
April 2012

The Chicago Tribune recently selected seven food writers "worth watching" out of a crowded field. One of the paper's favorites was cookbook author, Monica Bhide. About eight years ago, Monica gave up an engineering career to follow her passion and write about the Indian cuisine and comfort foods her mother and grandmother lovingly prepared for her as a child. I spoke with Monica about Indian cooking...

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