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The tourists have gone home, the kids have gone back to school, sweltering temperatures have tamed to tolerable levels, and hotels have reduced their peak summer rates. It’s an ideal time to enjoy the crisp autumn air and the technicolor palette that Mother Nature serves up each autumn. Here are my favorite places in the USA and Canada and for a fall getaway.
Club Med and Snowbasin have agreed that the all-inclusive international chain will not build a ski property at the Utah resort after all. It’s not a real surprise to us ski industry insiders, who have long known about construction delays due to environmental issues, including water and electric power. Snowbasin is one of my favorite
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The world’s largest annual winter carnival is the annual Quebec Winter Carnival, in the heart of Old Quebec. It is 17 days of fun in the snow, February 1 to February 17, 2013. The daily schedule of festivities includes parades, fireworks, slide runs, a giant foot ball game, concerts, snow sculptures, horse-drawn sleigh rides, dogsled rides, snow sculptures,
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Get ready to be dazzled by the annual autumn display from Mother Nature. Fall means grab your gear and your significant other and head out to a fall getaway. The tourists have gone home, hotels have reduced their peak summer rates, and the scenery sparkles in the crisp autumn air. Here are five favorite destinations
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The world’s largest winter carnival is the annual Quebec Winter Carnival, in the heart of Old Quebec. It is 17 days of fun in the snow, from January 28 to February 13, 2011. The daily schedule of festivities includes parades, fireworks, slide runs, a giant foot ball game, concerts, snow sculptures, horse-drawn sleigh rides, dogsled rides, an
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The biggest winter carnival in the world is the annual Quebec Winter Carnival, in the heart of Old Quebec. This year’s three weeks of fun in the snow is from January 29 to February 14, 2010. Three weeks of festivities at the Quebec Winter Carnival include parades, fireworks, slide runs, a giant foot ball game, concerts, snow
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