Wine can't melt the snow, but it sure can warm your heart. With more than 80 wineries in the peninsula, Niagara is an oenophile's playground.  If you had the constitution - and a designated driver - you could easily spend two weeks working your way from tasting to tasting, sipping, sampling...

"Kia ora" "Nau mai"  "Hello"  "Welcome" We couldn't have asked for a warmer welcome than the one we received from the Maori hosts opening the doors to our group for the night - but this was no casual New Zealand drop-in.  The Maori take hospitality very seriously. Paul, the...

If you happened to be a hot-shot first-stringer in a competition on the stone-walled ball courts of ancient Tehuacalco, Mexico, not far from Acapulco, you wanted to make certain you blew a lot of plays.  You sure didn't want to win.  In recognition of their strength and valor, winners...

"My name is Sweet Bea," drawled the babe in the red bustier. "Sweet Bea Hind."  With a swish of that behind, she started up the wooden stairs, "Come on up. It's $5 for fifteen minutes...same as 1898...but the services have changed a little!" In its heyday, the Red Onion Saloon and brothel...

"Folks, he paid his entry fee so let's pay him off!" says the announcer at the Pilot Butte rodeo near Regina, Saskatchewan. The crowd claps sympathetically for the red-shirted rider whose lasso has just missed the horns of a young steer. The prize money isn't going to be his this time, but the...

"What have you seen of the island?" I asked the older couple, sunning themselves poolside.  "Nothing," they replied.  "We never leave the property." I was stunned.  There we were in Cuba, arguably one of the most interesting areas of the Caribbean, and my two tanned friends were...