America: It's Oktoberfest Time ​ For Great Food, Music, Dancing, Leaf-Watching and Golf, Sugar Mountain, N. C., Tops U. S. List By Ken Paul Mink America has many Oktoberfest celebrations each year, but none can match the variety of entertainment and nature opportunities offered at the Sugar Mountain, N. C., Resort event. Not only can visitors take ...

Indulge. Repent. Repeat. It will become my wife, Kerry, and I's mantra during a long weekend of self-regulated revelry in West Hollywood. For every drink sipped at the rooftop pool of The London West Hollywood Hotel there will be an hour of cycling in Beverly Hills spying the mansions of the rich and famous. The morning after a wine-paired dinner a...

The whoosh of air alerted me to the Killer Whale surfacing just off our starboard side. It's black dorsal fin cut through the water like a knife.  The huge bull from L pod was travelling quickly thru the indigo blue waters of the San Juan Islands.  This group of 172 various islands lie at the northwest corner of Washington State near Vanc...

Recalling the Beauty and Splendor of USA's Gilded Age By Ken Paul Mink ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Some places are just too magnificent for one to fully absorb all the beauty and magic that it possesses. Biltmore House is one such place. With its fantastically eye-catching French Chateauesque architecture, Biltmore has stood the test of time, remaining like ...

The full moon is auspicious. Perched at a corner table bordering the wall of windows on the 35th floor of Asiate restaurant with the view spilling out to Columbus Circle and Central Park, my wife and I remark this lunar illumination can only spell good luck. I'd already jogged effortlessly in Central Park, New York City's forested gem, that morning...

Long Island is an island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean. The self-styled Long Island Wine Country embraces over 60 vineyards and 30 wineries that are open to open to visitors.Discover Long Island, the official tourism board for Long Island, i...