Vancouver is the largest city in British Columbia, Canada, and one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the Americas.  This exciting city is located on Canada's west coast. The setting of high rise buildings rising from the harbor  creates a striking environment.  Vancouver is home to 2 major universities: the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University.  It has…...

Media is a suburb and corporate center that is  14 miles west of Philadelphia. The population was 5,400 in 2009.  In the second half of the 19th Century, Media was a summer resort for well-to-do Philadelphians. The borough's large vacation hotels included the Idlewild Hotel (1871) on Lincoln Street at Gayley Terrace, Chestnut Grove House or "The Colonial" (1860) on…...

St. Francisville Louisiana is one of the prettiest and most charming small towns along the Gulf Coast. If you imagine that Louisiana is shaped like a boot, St. Francisville is on the front where the shoe meets the upper last. It is a quaint town on the Mississippi and very popular with both tourists and people in retirement. The town…...

San Jose del Cabo, population 48,000, is a quaint and historic resort town at the bottom of the Baja Peninsula in Mexico. It is located on the coast just east of Cabo San Lucas, its more famous neighbor.  The area between these two towns has 20 miles of beautiful beaches which connects them. Cabo San Lucas is more of a…...