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Following Fact and Fiction Into a Colonial City 
IN the late summer of 1880, Susan and Oliver Ward traveled by steamship to Veracruz, Mexico. They then boarded a train and finally a stagecoach, heading 450 miles inland to the state of Michoacán. Along the way, the couple passed through towns and cities that had been built soon after the Spanish conquest — with tiled domes, terraced roofs and bell towers that looked as if they might have been exported whole from Seville.
To Susan, a writer and illustrator who had been living, not so happily, in mining settlements of American West, Mexico looked “like something rubbed up out of a lamp, as different from the false fronts, cowhide boots, flapping vests and harsh disappointments of Leadville as anything could possibly have been.”
“Oh!” she told her husband on the night they finally arrived at the Hotel Michoacán, “I have never been anywhere till now!”
The scene is from “Angle of Repose,” Wallace Stegner’s masterpiece, which is set mostly in American mining towns and on the banks of Idaho’s Boise River. Mainly, the novel — winner of the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for fiction — is an epic tale of frontier life, the story of a long marriage, challenged by disappointment and lost hope and wounded by betrayal and compromise.
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Celebrity Jets
 The Gulfstream Luxury Aircraft: The Gulfstream has been the alpha-male plane of choice for decades: Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Mark Cuban and John Travolta are owners. These men fly the way most people drive. As Senior Manager of Gulfstream Corporate Communications Robert Baugniet puts it, "you can go around the world in one stop." ...
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Luxury Africa Rail Safari
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Train Adventures: Traveling by train is a highly enjoyable, hypnotic escape into another world. The preferred method of adventure by millions, trains romantically carry wide-eyed travelers to the very brink of all that is wild and wonderful, smoothly covering diverse terrains to connect the four corners of the world.
Each continent boasts a legendary train trip, from the Glacier Express in Switzerland to the Orient Express in Southeast Asia to The Ghan in Australia. Yet of all the world’s great trains, South Africa’s Blue Train is truly unique.
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Kate Hudson: Mom, Movie Star, Bikini Model :
"I've never been more active in my life.."
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Wilderness Safaris:
The Ultimate Adventure
Vacation for the VIP
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Safaris Adventure:
Level 6 white water rafting. Check. Hang-gliding over the Himalayas. Yawn. Zip lining through the rainforest. So
last year.
Traditional vacations don’t do it for you. If there isn’t a small chance you could lose a limb, you’re just not interested. You’ve tried almost everything and want something that will really get your blood flowing. Ilana Stein of Wilderness
Safaris, a company specializing in privately hosted safaris and memorable wildlife experiences in the most remote and pristine areas in southern Africa, thinks she has the perfect vacation for adrenaline junkies—a real African
Safari.
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About Ferrari Cars
 Ferrari: The premier manufacturer of Italian racing, sports, and GT cars, Ferrari has been present in the North American Market almost from its inception. Enzo Ferrari, II Commendatore, understood the importance of the North American market to his company's success. It is not mere coincidence that America's first Formula 1 World Champion drove a Ferrari to the title. ...
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