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Settling down in a short-term rental--rather than dashing around from hotel to hotel--is gaining ground as a style of travel, says Pauline Kenny, who trademarked the term Slow Travel and runs slowtrav com a website of classified listings and rental reviews. Midlife and older adults don't want to race through six countries in two weeks, checking off a list of must-see sites, says Kenny, 51, who is based in Santa Fe, N.M. Experiencing a country as its residents do offers an attractive alternative...
That more relaxed approach to travel grew out of Italy's slow food movement, which emphasizes home-cooked, authentic cuisine to counter the proliferation of fast-food restaurants. Slow travelers, says Kenny, prefer a "concentric circle" approach to tourism: go out the front door and explore the neighborhood and nearby towns, get to know the locals instead of slavishly following guidebook itineraries. Kenny and her husband Steve Cohen, 59, were in a Munich art gallery filled with Rubenses when it struck her that seeing all the standard tourist highlights was exhausting and there must be a better...
...under the gazebo, Ryan, 16, and his friends are playing poker for money, a pastime that many would consider at least inappropriate for kids and that is outright illegal in some states. It doesn't matter that the teenagers are playing a $5 buy-in poker game so excruciatingly slow that it would take a fortnight to run through Ryan's allowance. Gambling is gambling, and with today's endless hand wringing about kids and distractions, it is a scourge, a gateway to a lifetime of misbehavior and penury...
...write in the book, "All that happens when your dream comes true is a slow melting realization that it wasn't what you thought." Has that been your experience with success...
...always will be.”In this year’s edition four key players went down, fortunately not for any extended period of time.Late in the first half senior running back Clifton Dawson was hit hard by junior defensive end Patrick Fisher for a loss.Dawson was slow to get up, and with an injury timeout, he remained off the field for the next play and the last few minutes of the first half.Just a couple of plays later, senior wide receiver Corey Mazza went down after a big gain that would be negated by a holding call against...