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All that glitters (or, as Shakespeare originally wrote in The Merchant of Venice, glisters) is not gold. But while Willie was going for a life lesson, here at Flyover America, all that glisters is not gold because it could be a shark tooth or a super shiny pebble or a crocheted necklace or, well, or [...]

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A funny thing happened on the way to my looking-back-on-luxury hotel list: I realized that, when it comes to luxury, it really takes something special for me to remember it. I love a plush king-size bed layered with high thread count sheets. I adore a soft and oversized bathrobe. I go ga ga over a [...]

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Throw out your TV! Cancel your Netflix subscription! Crush the Victrola! There are two gopher brothers in a van and they’re digging America because they can–and they will fulfill all your entertainment needs. While driving cross-country, Wilson and Ditch sing–both in their eco-fuel powered VW Camper Van and at stops like the Grand Ole [...]

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Looking at art is always nice. Well, usually. Spending time with an artist who created work you like or love? Well, that’s a treat beyond belief. Time slows down and speeds up and your synapses start firing off like crazy. Things just shift a little to the left. Here, some artists we’ve been lucky enough [...]

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You still haven’t finished your shopping?* What am I going to do with you? Well, get to it. Here, handmade goods from or about or somehow just having to do with states from Montana on through to Wyoming. (Hankering for the AL to MO set? I got your back.)
Montana: Hmmm, I may need to read [...]

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Boo!
Scare you? No? Well, we’ve got a few other tricks and travel treats bubbling away in this week’s Three-fer Friday cauldron. Here, some places and experiences that left us with chills (still multiplying). Happy Halloween!
We’re joined by one of our most frightening–and we mean that in a good way–friends. Hilary Davidson, a very nice and [...]

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We Love Us an Oddball Museum

Met, shmet. Those fancy museum are fine, but Flyover Americans never met an oddball museum they didn’t love. So much so, we had trouble choosing among the gajillions we’ve visited.
Today’s threefer guest writer is our buddy Eva Holland, senior editor of World Hum, swell writer, cool chick, and ’60s soul junkie, which explains her detour [...]

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Is there any travel term as pejorative as “tourist trap”? It disses the attraction and it disses the doofuses (doofi?) who go there. Yeah, well, “tourist trap” is in the eyes of the beholder. We’d like to tell you about some places that others may scorn but we gladly allow to trap us.
The signs along [...]

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Paeans of Paul

The rise of “singers” such as Miley Cyrus, Fergie and Lady GaGa make me long for the days when our musical artists were just that—artists.
At times like these, I long for singer/songwriter/troubadour Paul Simon.
I contend that no musician since Woody Guthrie has done a better job at spinning musical yarns about journeys through the heart [...]

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With apologies to Tina Fey for, above, bastardizing her character’s now famous line, here, the hotels/B&Bs/other-places-with-beds-that-aren’t-our-homes that we would like to move into permanently.
Jenna’s Picks
Few hotels–if any–merge whimsy, history, and upscale delights like Boston’s Liberty Hotel, which is partially housed in a former jail. I would spend my Saturday mornings doing Yoga in the [...]

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