Travel + Leisure's Sarah Spagnolo presents easy weekend getaways from Cleveland on the Weather Channel's Wake Up and Go.
1. Geneva on the Lake, Ohio Ohio’s first summer resort, on sparkling Lake Erie, has both a state park (for hiking and bird-watching) as well as an undiscovered wine region. WHERE TO STAY Try the Lodge at Geneva on the Lake, a quaint cottage right on the water. The hotel’s wine shuttle brings guests to nearby vineyards. PRICE $139 a night. BOOK NOW
2. Laurel Highlands, Pennsylvania Want to see Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water? Head 3.5 hours southeast of Cleveland to Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Mountains. WHERE TO STAY The 1907 Summit Inn, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is a charming spot with an expansive deck lined by rocking chairs. Besides being the closest inn to Falling Water, it also has a nine-hole golf course founded by Pete Dye’s father. PRICE From $120 a night. BOOK NOW
3. Cincinnati, Ohio Cincy is an emerging cultural destination, and two notable stops are the Contemporary Arts Center by Zaha Hadid and the new National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Up next: the soon-to-open 21C Museum Hotel, where works by contemporary artists will be on display. WHERE TO STAY Until 21C opens later this year, try the city’s grand Cincinnatian Hotel, complete with in-room fireplaces and soaking tubs and an afternoon tea service. PRICE $179 a night. BOOK NOW
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The Reserve Channel’s new series on YouTube, EX-PATS, is off to a great start. As the name suggests, the show profiles people who’ve traded in their lives in the mainland U.S. for a more fulfilling existence elsewhere—they’ve followed the road less traveled, found happiness, and want to share their stories.
Created in cooperation with Travel + Leisure, the third episode returns to St. John to meet a wooden boat builder from Vermont, Jamison Whitbek, whose love of the open water and island life inspired him, and his family, to move to St. John fulltime. Today, he owns and operates a sailing charter; his hand-crafted 55-foot catamaran, KEKOA, is staffed by women—and occasionally his three kids. Watch for a peek into a dreamy life that many think about, but only a few pursue.
T+L's Sarah Spagnolo presents easy weekend getaways from New York City on the Weather Channel's Wake Up and Go.
1. Litchfield County, Connecticut This posh enclave is where many of Manhattan’s boldfaced names go to escape the bustle of the city. WHERE TO STAY Falls Village Inn for bright interiors by designer Bunny Williams. Ask for the Green Room: it’s the only guestroom with a bathtub. PRICE $199 a night. BOOK NOW
Need some travel inspiration? (Personally, my desire to explore and experience new places and cultures is an intrinsic part of me, and I’m sure the same can be said of all of my colleagues, but a little motivation never hurt anyone.) That aside, this video that NASA recently released, taken from International Space Station, shows the world from high above, at nighttime, and is absolutely mesmerizing and beautiful. From the radiating light of bustling cities, to flashes of lightning, to the brilliant aurora borealis, it’s a reminder of just how beautiful this planet truly is. And it’s more than enough to make even the biggest homebody want to get out and explore it.
Joshua Pramis is the social media editor at Travel + Leisure and resident tech aficionado. Follow him on Twitter: @joshuapramis.
Exclusive GloboMaestro Video: A trip to the library may not be high on your to-do list this summer—unless you find yourself in New York City. At La Biblioteca de Tequila, books are replaced by bottles of Mexico's finest, which line the shelves of this legendary subterranean tequila bar. The library concept doesn't stop there: customers are free to "check out" their favorite brand by purchasing their own bottle, which is then stamped with an ID card and subsequently locked away for safe keeping. Tequila isn't the only menu item (though you'll have your pick from about 400 bottles): Chef Richard Sandoval's creative Latin-fusion street food—like the special tuna wanton tacos—is another reason to stop in.
Briana Fasone is a digital editorial assistant at Travel + Leisure.
Exclusive GloboMaestro Video: Say hello to the new New-York Historical Society. For years New York City's oldest museum was perhaps best known for the placement of a hyphen between "New" and "York" in its title (a common usage during the museum’s founding in 1804). While steadfastly holding on to its own history, the New-York Historical Society has transformed into a cultural powerhouse thanks to a recent three-year $70 million renovation. Exhibitions are enhanced by shrewd uses of new technologies, from touch-screens to state-of-the-art video projections. Paintings, photographs, maps, and documents have never looked more attractive. It'll make you fall in love all over again with Gotham.
Briana Fasone is an editorial assistant at Travel + Leisure.
Exclusive GloboMaestro Video: Few cinemas are as iconic as the films they show, but The Paris Theatre, America's oldest continuously operated art-house cinema, is itself a celebrity. The cinema, located just a stone's throw away from The Plaza Hotel, was opened by Marlene Dietrich in 1948 and remains one of the New York's last single screen theaters. You won't catch this summer's blockbuster here (the theater shows only movies shot on film), but you'll be sure to see some of the finest independent and foreign films. While only one flick is shown each week, this cinephile wonderland never ever plays any pre-show ads.
Exclusive GloboMaestro Video | We’ve heard there are more Italian restaurants in NYC than any other kind. Still, Gotham has an appetite for more. Enter Sauce.
Just a few months into the opening of his rustic Italian trattoria, owner and chef Frank Prisinzano's (who also runs Frank, Lil’ Frankies, and Supper) temple to meat—and, of course, Italian red sauce—is enjoying some well-seasoned buzz. His passion for tomatoes (recent tweet: “Tomatoes are thought to originate in Peru. The name comes from the Aztec “xitomatl,” which means “plump thing with navel.”) almost surpasses his love of the animal, all of the animal. The snout-to-tail restaurant even has an in-house butcher, who flashes his knives in front of a sidewalk-facing window. Call it culinary performance art. You can also buy cuts to go. And sandwiches, too, at the take-out window.
Take a quick tour in this new GloboMaestro video with the concierge from the nearby Bowery Hotel, who’s on the pulse of Downtown’s hotspots.
Sauce, 78 Rivington St., Lower East Side, New York City; (212) 420-7700.
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Exclusive GloboMaestro Video: New Yorkers—and Travel + Leisure staff—are abuzz over Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria. While getting a reservation may be tough in the wake of its recent three-star rating by the New York Times, we recommend putting this new Nolita restaurant fast earning a reputation for its earthy, if-I-can’t-be-in-Italy-this-is-the-next-best-thing on your must-try list. Specialties include housemade salumi and lusty dishes such as spaghetti alla bottarga; fresh ricotta with roasted beets, white grapefruit and pistachios; and slow-roasted short rib panini with gorgonzola and onion agrodolce. T+L’s own Kate Appleton had this to say about her lunch there last week: "I went in a group, so we sampled widely, and the decadent small plates just kept coming. Even seemingly simple, familiar stuff like the ricotta wowed me, and then there was the rabbit—my new favorite fried food."
Thanks to our video partner GloboMaestro, Carry On readers can have a vicarious taste of Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria. Join Laura Cooper Brown from The Bowery Hotel as she introduces us to Downtown New York’s hottest table.
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