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The Arizona Republic
February 15, 2009
PARIS — I pulled down the wall bed and heard a “craaack.”
I think I broke it.
Maybe it was already broken.
Either way, this wasn’t good.
If I had stayed in a hotel with a front desk, I could have called maintenance at this late hour. But I’d rented an apartment. In Paris. [...]
The Arizona Republic
September 20, 2007
CHICAGO — Mrs. O’Leary’s cow was framed.
For more than a century, Illinois schoolchildren have been taught that the bovine kicked over a lantern and started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed more than 17,000 buildings.
Some historians, however, believe a neighbor actually started the blaze.
The O’Leary homestead is long gone, [...]
The Arizona Republic
November 5, 2006
NEW YORK — On visits to Manhattan, tourists’ senses are quickly overloaded.
There are too many options for where to eat, drink, shop, be entertained and people-watch. If this island doesn’t have it, frankly, a traveler doesn’t need it.
But there’s no need to be intimidated.
The best way to experience New York [...]
Des Moines Register
March 18, 2001
Beverly Hills, Calif. — The drivers behind the tinted windows of the Mercedes and BMWs zip around our white tour bus as it chugs down Roxbury Drive. The rich want nothing to do with the gawking tourists.
Starline Tour buses are a dime a dozen on Roxbury. Yet, the two-hour, $35 tour [...]