“‘The Bear’ does such an amazing job of highlighting Chicago’s diverse food scene,” said Hannah Gleeson, director of operations at Chicago Food & City Tours. The company began the 3-hour themed excursions in November after months of requests from guests. “And it’s so much more fun to do something like this than just walk up to Mr. Beef.”
Minneapolis Star Tribune travel editor gets an after-hours preview of the 145-foot-tall Rise of Icarus at Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park in Wisconsin Dells.
Harvest Hosts coordinates with businesses across the U.S., listing more than 5,000 sites as potential stopovers for RVs to park overnight. In exchange, campers pay Harvest Hosts an annual membership fee ranging from about $84 to $143 and also agree to patronize or support the sites they visit.
The locations on the list span the U.S. from the coasts of Maryland and Virginia to the coast of Washington state and offer plenty of things to see, do and photograph.
After introducing a menu for first-class Acela travelers, Amtrak is turning its attention to the rest of us in the cheap(er) seats in business class. Business-class travelers are getting a new menu all their own, in an effort to make the faster (and pricier) ride feel distinct from the regular Northeast Regional line.
Run by volunteers from the California Historical Radio Society, the Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame in Alameda, Calif., is devoted to everything under the sun related to wireless communication, stretching back some 120 years to the invention of radio. Its thousands of mostly donated artifacts were located in Berkeley’s old KRE radio station before moving here in 2014. For much of its existence, the building has functioned as a social club and hangout space for die-hard radio collectors. But this summer, it plans to open as a full-fledged museum, with rotating exhibits and a burning mission to teach the public that radio is anything but dead.
A favorite destination for beachgoers, anglers and bird watchers, the 28-mile-long and 1-mile-wide Panhandle barrier island community, only a short drive from Tallahassee and tourist-crammed Panama City, is considered part of Florida’s so-called “Forgotten Coast,” those small, pristine and relatively undiscovered islands and towns like its cousins of Mexico Beach, Cape San Blas and Carrabelle that don’t get the party-hardy crowds of Miami, Daytona and Clearwater beaches.
National parks are becoming increasingly more welcoming to outdoor enthusiasts with mobility issues, with some like Great Smoky Mountains National Park offering adaptive equipment loans and a program of free, adaptive excursions. Last year, its inaugural year, the national park and its partners organized three hikes and one mountain bike outing for parkgoers who use adaptive gear. This year, the program will feature three hikes, two mountain bike rides, one kayak trip and one night of backcountry camping. The outings are scheduled for select dates in June, July, September and October.
Think of the Ladder as a 90-minute interactive movie with puzzles, taking guests through five decades, beginning in the 1950s, in which they will play an exaggerated game of corporate life and find out just how corruptible they really are. Start in the mail room, and work your way through secretarial and middle-management-themed areas, all the while mixing puzzles, games and choose-your-own-adventure-like choices — so many that it’s impossible to discover all its content in a single play-through. It’s ambitious, and it’s counting on guests to come for the puzzles, and stay for the story, almost aiming to be more akin to a real-life video game than a traditional escape room.
Among the many places to learn about the queen of Southern Gothic literature in Milledgeville, a town about 100 miles from Atlanta: the O’Connor family farmhouse museum at Andalusia; Georgia College and State University’s Andalusia Interpretive Center, which features more artifacts and a timeline of the author’s life; the special collections library in Heritage Hall at GCSU; and her grave at Memory Hill Cemetery.