Cleveland may not be on your top 10 list of where to go for your next Culinary Adventure– maybe not even on your top 50 list…but that would be a BIG “Pretty Woman” sized mistake on your part. (Don’t feel too bad, it wouldn’t have been on my list either– until I visited there last week for an incredible eye & palate-opening Gourmet Tour.)

To set the record straight, Cleveland’s sooty past is just that, a thing of the past, because Cleveland has worked very hard to clean up its act. The phrase that kept running through my mind as I was exploring the city’s streets was “How Civilized!” For example, I couldn’t believe how clean the city was. I learned that the Downtown Cleveland Alliance not only hires “Clean & Safe Ambassadors” to power wash the sidewalks and keep the buildings graffiti-free, but they also will provide a free after-hours escort to safely walk you to your car. Now that’s what I call civilized (and smart,) because it can’t help but contribute to C-town‘s sizzling restaurant scene, because this place is HOT, HOT, HOT with stylin’ new restaurants springing up in mini-culinary nabes all over town. Bistros, gastro-pubs, ethnic eateries, and chef driven smaller sized restaurants are flourishing, particularly in the historic Warehouse District, the West Side’s gentrified Tremont area and “The Flats” down on the Cuyahoga riverfront.

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Outsourcing is a well known phenomenon in the world of factory jobs, and now a newer kind of outsourcing, “Creative Outsourcing,” is taking advantage of the creative talents of Argentines.According to TMCnet.com, people with creative skills can do web design, graphic design, flash, 3D animation and develop games and video.Collaborative applications like Skype make it so that outsourcers don’t need to feel isolated from the creative work being done, and employers and employees can have a consistent give and take on important projects. The article says that certain factors make Argentina perfect for this kind of outsourcing, including the country’s recovering economy, wealth of creative talent, highly educated population, Western sensibility, and a price tag that is comparable to India. Only time will tall how this trend will affect Argentines as well as creative workers in more costly nations like the United States.

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You can reach the beautiful city of Dolores Hidalgo by the federal highway 110 in the state of Guanajuato Mexico, place where Miguel Hidalgo proclaimed Mexico’s Independence.

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August 28th, 2008 by A World Vacationer

From our Win a Trip Contest
A travel story by - CJ M. 

Boston, a city that will give you anything you want, when you want it. I landed in Boston for a conference in Cambridge. My time was committed to adventures in the lecture hall for the last week of July. I thought I would never experience anything Boston had to offer during my stay. I was wrong.

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August 7th, 2008 by Libby - NWA WorldVacations

If you jump on a plane to Philadelphia, drive about 20 minutes north, you will find yourself in Langhorne, PA at a little spot called Sesame Place. It’s just the thing you would do for your 5- year wedding anniversa…or perhaps just the perfect getaway to take your 2- year old.

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