Doug Stallings

A hidden Frank Lloyd Wright escape is just 90 minutes away from Manhattan. Iknew there were several Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in Buffalo that the public could tour. I know about the three Usonian houses in Westchester County that are all still in private hands and can’t be toured. But I had never heard of a Wright home in Mahopac, about 50 miles north of New York City, and I’d certainly never heard that it was open to the public for semi-private tours in the summer and early fall each year.

It’s time to visit another side of Germany. W hile huge crowds of tourists flock to Berlin, Cologne, Munich, and Heidelberg, there are some areas of the country—especially in the east—that don’t get the vast numbers of foreign tourists that hit the more popular spots. Saxony, an area about two hours south of Berlin along the Czech and Polish borders, has historically been one of the manufacturing and mining centers of Germany, but it’s also where so much German culture originated.

I visited Calgary this summer to see the Calgary Stampede, and it did not disappoint. The Stampede days are the busiest and most eventful 10 days in Calgary every year, drawing almost a million-and-a-half visitors from all over Canada, the United States, and the rest of the world, and it’s easy to see why they come. The city buzzes with excitement, not to mention one of North America’s biggest rodeos. It’s a sea of white hats and cowboy boots all over town.