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Brian Jewell
Brian is the CEO & Executive Editor of The Group Travel Leader Inc. During more than two decades, his career in travel journalism has taken him to 48 U.S. states and dozens of foreign countries.
If Switzerland is the land of cheese and chocolates, we wasted no time diving in to the heart of the country. Our first full day of the tour has taken us from Bern, the capital city and our home base in Switzerland, to Gruyere, a small village area in the French-speaking part of the country. […]
Red or green? It’s a simple choice but an important one. Chile pepper sauce is at the heart of traditional New Mexican cooking, and the red or green sauce you choose will make a big difference in the heat and flavor of your meal. When I visited Albuquerque and the surrounding areas in New Mexico […]
If you’re anxious to hear some good news about travel and the economy, the cruise industry may be the best place to look. In spite of an economy that has challenged many sectors of travel and tourism, the cruise industry continues to enjoy high occupancy and growing demand. According to information compiled by the Cruise […]
Nothing warms up the wintertime like a party, and in the Southern states along the Gulf Coast, there is no party like Mardi Gras. What started in Europe as a Catholic celebration before the beginning of the Lenten season has become one of the South’s greatest cultural traditions. Mardi Gras parades, parties and balls liven […]
The Rock Cafe is the kind of place that made Rout 66 famous. The Stroud, Oklahoma, restaurant has been a fixture of the Mother Road for decades. Even though Route 66 has been long decommissioned as a national highway, there are some 350 intact miles of it running through Oklahoma, and many of the classic […]
Is there anybody today like Will Rogers? Will there ever be? Will Rogers is a name I’ve heard before. But until I visited his boyhood home, as well as the Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma, I had no idea how significant this man really was: An entertainer, a writer, a philosopher, a cowboy, […]
It’s amazing how much can change in one minute. I was 13 years old when Oklahoma City’s Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was bombed in April of 1995. purchase cialis I remember hearing about it at school that day, and I remember feeling a strange distance between myself in Kentucky and the victims in Oklahoma. […]
If you’ve ever had a television or radio show interrupted by a severe weather warning, the alert originated here: the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma. Situated on the Oklahoma University campus, the National Weather Center is actually a conglomeration of a number of government, educational and commercial weather monitoring organizations. Here in the middle […]
WASHINGTON-OREGON BORDER ““ The light comes streaming through the gaps in the curtains early this morning, and out the window of my sleeper car I can see clear blue skies and the beautiful Columbia River flowing alongside the tracks. In the wee hours of last night, the train arrived in Spokane, where it was broken […]
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK ““ Sooner or later, we all have rainy days, even at times when we are really hoping to see the sun. Today I was scheduled to take a four-mile hike around a lake in Glacier National Park with Jan Metzmaker, Director of the Whitefish Convention and Visitors Bureau. The only problem is […]
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