Tag: boating
Maryland’s Eastern Shore
As a native marylander, I’ve crossed the William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge—commonly known as the Chesapeake Bay Bridge—hundreds of times, but its majesty still...
Apalachicola, FL
Dawn came so softly that I could hear a dolphin breathing, exhaling through its blowhole while swimming slowly up the Apalachicola River only a few feet away. I had...
The Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation
The Ritz-Carlton properties in Atlanta typify the cosmopolitanism that defines the hotel brand the world over. The Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead, with its honeyed wood paneling and...
Waycross, GA
I lean back in the lawn chair to soak up the early autumn sun still high in the sky and aimlessly swat at bugs, waiting for the next band to start. To my left, a local I’d been chatting...
Amelia Island, FL
Rob Hicks is sweating, his breath at a light pant, as he points out the Fairbanks House. The four-story, twenty-room residence, built in 1885 in Amelia Island’s Fernandina Beach...
St. Augustine, FL
More than 100 years after Florida’s railroad boom brought the posh set to St. Augustine, this former Spanish colony just south of Jacksonville still holds Old World allure. In the...
Chattanooga, TN
Chattanooga has come a long way since Walter Cronkite called it the dirtiest city in America in 1969. A renaissance that arose in 1992 with the glass pyramids of the Tennessee...
Over $1000: The Inn at Palmetto Bluff
After a few days at Palmetto Bluff, you’re likely to spend the four-and-a-half-hour drive home trying to reconcile some conflicting thoughts. On the one hand, you’ll be grateful...
Sandestin, FL
The sprawling, impeccably manicured grounds include thirty different neighborhoods, which are connected by more than five miles of trails and a pedestrian tunnel under Highway...
Charleston, SC
"I now leave Charleston, the seat of Satan, dissipation, and folly," wrote Francis Asbury, a late-1700s itinerant minister in the muggy, swampy Lowcountry. Asbury later became...