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Montana's sweet spot in the Western experience

BIG SKY, Mont. - This place is absurdly misnamed. That's not a complaint, but it does require an asterisk.

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Desert epiphany: Springtime blooms in the Arizona desert

TUCSON, Ariz. - For the past decade, I've headed to Arizona in midwinter to visit family and catch a respite from cold weather. Each year, as I leave its warm, dry air to return to my snowy home, I'm told, "You really should come when the desert is in bloom. It's spectacular."
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Gary A. Warner: What's new and notable in Hawaii

The traffic on H-1, a Hawaiian interstate that connects with no other state, is still horrendous.
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Woody Guthrie's great American voice gets a new home in Tulsa

TULSA, Okla. - The woman in the wheelchair and headphones is watching pictures go by and hearing a narrator speak about a place and a moment long ago.
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Louisville distillery joins Kentucky Bourbon Trail

LOUISVILLE — The Evan Williams Bourbon Experience, a $10 million tourism center for bourbon maker Heaven Hill, will become the eighth distillery on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail.
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'The Great Gatsby' — and Daisy, in particular — have roots in Kentucky

The Great Gatsby is regarded as a great New York novel, portraying the lives of the idle, naughty rich in 1922 in the city and its seaside communities. But it also has a strong tie to Kentucky. The object of the title character's affection hails from Louisville, and that's where they met.
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Bluegrass-area tourism up 2.8 percent in 2012

The Kentucky annual tourism survey showed an increase in Lexington in 2012 and gains in nine of the state's tourism regions, according to the Kentucky Tourism Arts and Heritage Cabinet.
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University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra heading to China for concert

The University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra leaves Wednesday on a 12-day concert trip in China, with its last concert scheduled for the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
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Historic Vanderbilt mansion gets new life on Miami's Fisher Island

MIAMI - There are many Vanderbilt mansions, all of them grander, and certainly larger, than the relatively modest manse on Miami's Fisher Island that bears the famous family name.
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Seattle Architecture Foundation builds out 2013 tour schedule

SEATTLE - When Dr. Beverly Beeton moved to Seattle from Alaska several years ago, she started looking for ways to learn more about her new hometown.
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Legoland Hotel is built, brick by brick, with kids in mind

CARLSBAD, Calif. - The Legoland Hotel, which opened April 5, got plenty of little things wrong in its first weeks. But its designers got one thing enormously right, and that will make this place a screaming success: kid-centricity.