BY JANET STEINBERG Part 3 of a Series Life in the fast lane! That is the vicarious life that millions of people around the world lived as they sat glued to their televisions for 13 years watching “Dallas”, the prime time soap opera saga of The Ewing family and its giant...
BY JANET STEINBERG Part 2 of a Series Dear Fellow Travelers, I have a quiz for you, but it is an easy one because I will also give you the answer. QUESTION: What do churches, restaurants, and salt/pepper shakers all have in common? ANSWER: They are all part of a broad spectrum of favorite...
BY JANET STEINBERG Part 1 of a series Many decades ago, when I first visited Dallas, the “Big D” stood for drab, dull, dreary, Dallas. It was a city where you had to go on business, or to change planes for a trip to Mexico. It was certainly not a city...
BY JANET STEINBERG Part 2 of a Series "The world was my oyster,” the late Oscar Wilde quipped, “but I used the wrong fork." Well, on my recent visit to Irving, Texas there was no wrong fork. From gourmet Tex-Mex to booze infused specialties; from sitting with ranchers to gawking at the Chanel-clad,...
BY JANET STEINBERG Part 1 of a series My version of the Texas Two-Step is a little different than the version you might expect to see on any dance floor in the Lone Star State. For me, the stars in this western partner dance are two Texas cities that meld...
BY JANET STEINBERG NAMASTE! I have been to India twice, and both times I returned home with many unforgettable experiences. In Agra, I hired an elephant named Lakshmi and his mahout (elephant driver) to give me an unforgettable 1.5-mile ride from my hotel to the Taj Mahal. Lakshmi stopped for...
Part 3 of a Series BY JANET STEINBERG The innovative Columbus culinary scene has come a long way since my first visit to Columbus many moons ago. The creative chefs and entrepreneurial restaurateurs of “C-Bus” offer an outstanding culinary experience from dawn through dusk. Let me begin with breakfast and show...
PART 2 OF A SERIES BY JANET STEINBERG Let me tell you about a hidden gem of a city where the fashions are haute, the sweet treats are cold, and a world-renowned work of art is green. HAUTE: It is not surprising that New York and Los Angeles are...
BY JANET STEINBERG Part 1 of a Series “Columbus is a town in which almost any thing is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.” James Thurber A long time ago, Columbus discovered America. A short time ago, I discovered Columbus! Although this capital city of Ohio is only 100 miles...
At the Spring-2016 Midwest Travel Writers Association (MTWA) meeting in Columbus, Ohio, Janet Steinberg, official blogger for The Travel Authority, an ALTOUR company, was awarded two Mark Twain Awards in MTWA’s annual Mark Twain Travel Writing Contest. Steinberg received the First Place Mark Twain Award for the Best Travel Travel Blog...