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View All8 Steps to a Better Life
These resolutions that optimize your health, wealth and safety will set you up for a stellar 2015 — and beyond.
By Claire Willet
December 7, 201410 Great Fall Weekends
01. CAMDEN, Maine Camden’s Main Street feels like a new England movie set, particularly in the fall, when the birch and red maple leaves pile up against clapboard-and-shingle shops and glance off the white spire of the Chestnut Street Baptist Church. Autumn visitors come for that stunning foliage, as well as hiking and boating. You […]
By Claire Willet
August 7, 2014Cars and Drivers
The road trip has been an American passion since 1903, when automobile pioneers Horatio Nelson Jackson and Sewall Crocker lit out cross-country from San Francisco to New York in a cherry-red Winton. More than a century later the lure of the open road remains, but the cars are faster, safer and a whole lot more fun. These five road trips take you through six countries and thousands of years of history in cars crafted for the challenge.
By Claire Willet
April 7, 2014By Claire Willet
February 7, 2014How to Prepare for a Wildfire
The 2013 wildfire season was the deadliest the U.S. has seen in a decade. A number of factors—including rising temperatures, invasive arid vegetation and an increasing blurring of wild land and urban space—have contributed to the spike in wildfire deaths, but one thing’s certain: Their impact isn’t likely to decrease anytime soon. Here’s how to protect yourself, your family and your property.