Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco

11 July 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, San Francisco Bay Area Reading Time:  5 minutes

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© BenRoadNerd

Van Ness Avenue is a north–south thoroughfare in San Francisco, California. Originally named Marlette Street, the street was renamed in honor of the city’s sixth mayor, James Van Ness.   read more…

Emerald Bay State Park in California

8 July 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time:  5 minutes

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© California Department of Parks and Recreation

Emerald Bay State Park is a state park of California in the United States, centered on Lake Tahoe‘s Emerald Bay, a National Natural Landmark. Park features include Eagle Falls and Vikingsholm, a 38-room mansion that is considered one of the finest examples of Scandinavian architecture in the United States. The architect was Leonard Palme, who was hired by his aunt Lora Josephine Knight to design and build Vikingsholm. The park contains the only island in Lake Tahoe, Fannette Island. The park is accessible by California State Route 89 near the southwest shore of the lake. Emerald Bay is one of Lake Tahoe’s most photographed and popular locations.   read more…

Chilaquiles

5 July 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon appétit Reading Time:  4 minutes

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© Grueslayer/cc-by-sa-4.0

Chilaquiles are a traditional Mexican breakfast dish made with tortillas.   read more…

57th Street in Manhattan

27 June 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, New York City, Shopping Reading Time:  7 minutes

Ampico Building, now the Curtiss-Wright Building © flickr.com - Tony Hisgett/cc-by-2.0

Ampico Building, now the Curtiss-Wright Building © flickr.com – Tony Hisgett/cc-by-2.0

57th Street is a broad thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Manhattan, one of the major two-way, east-west streets in the borough’s grid. As with Manhattan’s other “crosstown” streets, it is divided into its east and west sections at Fifth Avenue. The street runs from a small park overlooking the East River in the east to the West Side Highway along the Hudson River in the west. 57th Street passes through the Midtown Manhattan neighborhoods of Sutton Place, Billionaire’s Row, and Hell’s Kitchen from east to west.   read more…

Calgary Stampede in Canada

23 June 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Sport Reading Time:  5 minutes

Stampede Grounds with Saddledome (left) from Calgary Tower © Resolute/cc-by-sa-3.0

Stampede Grounds with Saddledome (left) from Calgary Tower © Resolute/cc-by-sa-3.0

The Calgary Stampede is an annual rodeo, exhibition, and festival held every July in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The ten-day event, which bills itself as “The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth”, attracts over one million visitors per year and features one of the world’s largest rodeos, a parade, midway, stage shows, concerts, agricultural competitions, chuckwagon racing, and First Nations exhibitions. In 2008, the Calgary Stampede was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame.   read more…

Villa Vizcaya in Coconut Grove

20 June 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Miami / South Florida, Museums, Exhibitions Reading Time:  5 minutes

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© Averette/cc-by-3.0

The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, previously known as Villa Vizcaya, is the former villa and estate of businessman James Deering, of the Deering McCormick-International Harvester fortune, on Biscayne Bay in the present-day Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, Florida. The early 20th-century Vizcaya estate also includes extensive Italian Renaissance gardens, native woodland landscape, and a historic village outbuildings compound.   read more…

2026 FIFA World Cup in North America: The venues

11 June 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Sport Reading Time:  23 minutes

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© Google Gemini

The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be the 23rd FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men’s soccer championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament will take place from June 11 to July 19, 2026. It will be jointly hosted by sixteen cities—eleven in the United States, three in Mexico, and two in Canada. The tournament will be the first FIFA World Cup to be hosted by three nations, and the first to include 48 teams, an expansion from 32 previously.   read more…

Kensington Market in Toronto

3 June 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon appétit, Shopping Reading Time:  11 minutes

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Kensington Market is a distinctive multicultural neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Market is an older neighbourhood and one of the city’s best-known. In November 2006, it was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. Robert Fulford wrote in 1999 that “Kensington today is as much a legend as a district. The (partly) outdoor market has probably been photographed more often than any other site in Toronto.”   read more…

Israel Day Parade 2026 in New York City

31 May 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, New York City Reading Time:  6 minutes

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© R1237h/cc-by-sa-4.0

Israel Day on Fifth (formerly the Salute to Israel Parade and then the Celebrate Israel Parade) is an annual parade in support of Israel that takes place along Fifth Avenue in New York. The parade travels north on Fifth Avenue from 57th Street to 74th Street.   read more…

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