" ... A large number of Native leaders were well acquainted with city life. In fact, over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they were in town often, regularly traveling to Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York and New Orleans -- primarly to conduct diplomatic or trade business, but often from a sense of curiosity and adventure. Some were even tourists. ... Based on primary accounts, Calloway's book...

Working the night shift as a temp in a high-rise cubicle, Erik Orton knew something had to change. He felt the responsibility of providing for his wife and their five children--the youngest with Down syndrome--but craved a life that offered more than just surviving. Watching the sailboats on the Hudson River during his sunset dinner breaks, Erik dared to dream. What would it be like to leave the hustle of the city and instead spend a year on a sailboat,...

Cruise down the most scenic routes of the Eastern Seaboard, driving along Maine's rocky coast, stopping at the edge of the mighty Niagara Falls, taking the back roads of Autumn-kissed Vermont, following the misty Blue Ridge Parkway as it winds into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, riding the Overseas Highway to the charming Florida Keys, and much more!