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by Linda Laughter, guest blogger Most Michiganders are familiar with our own special island, but evidently visitors have found our secret. Trip Advisor voted Mackinac Island the number one vacation destination in the USA. Located in Lake Huron, we are fortunate to have this...
When I told a friend we had walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, he said, “Gosh, I didn’t know you could do that.” Well, actually you can and some times there are too many people who want to take a hike across the 1.3 mile span between Manhattan and Brooklyn, the world’s first steel suspension...
The High Line 2018 I’ve been visiting and writing about the High Line since 2009, observing the changes in this cool urban space. These changes have been massive. Every so often a friend goes there and comments about how interesting it is and I think, “Wish you could have seen it at the...
By Linda Laughter, guest blogger Growing up on the Gulf Coast of Texas, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo was a yearly tradition in our home. Schools declared it a state holiday as we donned our finest cowboy apparel and headed to downtown Houston to see the Rodo Parade. Trail rides from all...
When I went to Magic Kingdom at Disney World in Orlando in Jan. I thought I’d be doing a walk down Memory Lane. Yes, years ago we took our then small children to see and experience this thrilling place. Returning with grand children I thought I’d be flooded with all kinds of memories. Nope....
Readers of DesignDestinations have been exposed to a lot about Seattle in recent weeks. The reason: My friend Peggy and I both visited Seattle within a couple of month of each other and found a lot to share. We enjoyed posting blogs about the places to visit in this growing and active Northwest...
Interestingly one of my good friends and fellow blogger, Peggy DePersia and I both visited Seattle within a couple of months of each other. Like me, she loved the city and happily she wanted to do a couple blog posts for DesignDestinations about Seattle. Perhaps you have seen them. I hope so....
Seattle Sculpture #3 by Peggy DePersia, guest blogger Theoretically it might not be deemed a ‘sculpture’ yet, it reads like one to me, jutting into space as it does above the Seattle landscape with its bird’s eye relationship to Puget Sound. On a recent self-guided tour of all things...
By Peggy DePersia, guest blogger Seattle Sculpture Part #2 The story is an interesting one and, for me, began in the early 1970’s with a trip to Berkeley, California. Go Figure and, welcome to the long and winding road back to Seattle and another approach to its love affair with...
by Peggy DePersia, guest blogger Given the associations I have made with the city of Seattle as well as it’s climate and weather from my earliest school girl discoveries, the result of elementary school geography studies, it seems appropriate and emblematic that a large scale, bright red,...