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The Water Cure

The Best Way to ...

Tips on high-tech road trip, are presented. These include, lighten up one's load using the iPad as a travel companion, daydream about one's next vacation using Google Earth, staying organized on the road by using Instapaper.

Beer Studies Made Easy

Get Off the Beaten Path: 3 Car-Less Ways to Travel This Summer

Three car-less ways to travel this summer, are presented. These include, by train, by ferry, and by bike.

Jam Session

Rabbit: The Other White Meat

The 'It' Edible Flowers

Ducks Are the New Chickens

Two-Wheeled Realty: The Next Housing Craze?

3 More Must-Dos in the Area...

Three more must-dos in Sheridan Wyoming, are presented. These include, Bug Horn Scenic Byway, Medical Wheel National Historic Landmark, and Ucross Foundation.

Wyoming Day Trip Sheridan

Several photographs on where to spend a mountain weekend in Wyoming, are presented. These include, Don King Western Museum, Trail End State Historic Site, and Big Horn Mountains.

Mountain Editor's Picks

Several photographs of great scenes in Aspen Colorado, are presented. These include, Cathedral Lake Trail, Aspen Brewing Company, and Aspen Music Festivals.

Ashland Under $500

Several affordable summer weekend getaways in Oregon's famous culture town, are presented. These include Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Lithia Park, and Dragongly Cafe and Gardens.

Reinvent Your Driveway

Chai shares how landscape architect Jeni Webber redesigned the driveway of a Palo Alto property. Among other things, after the solid driveway was replaced with twin ribbons of concrete, Webber planted the new median strip with low- growing echeverias, dwarf daffodils, sedums, and creeping thyme that cars can still drive over (a garage lies at the rear).

Eco Confidential

Arieff answers frequently asked questions related to green-living. Among other things, she details that on the issue of federal cash for home energy improvements, one can receive up to $1,500 in tax credits for qualifying improvements done in 2009 and 2010. For renewable energy systems, one gets that 30% credit with no $1,500 cap, and the deadline's extended to 2016.

Get Hitched

McElhiney features several trailer vans. These include, Airstream, Teardrop and VW or Camper Van.

7 Ways to Love Peaches

Several peach recipes are presented. These include, peach collins, peach and ginger glazed riblets and grilled chicken and peach kebab salad.

Wild Kingdom

Arieff features the Presidio Habitats, an exhibition inspired by--and installed in--a national park in Presidio San Francisco. Crisscrossing the park's northwestern corner like modern follies, the 11 artworks, which were unveiled May 16, riff on the habitats of native wildlife. Designers, architects, and artists created structures to celebrate the four-legged and the winged--like witty straw letters for robin nests and a miniature wood-sided home for bats--and perhaps attract them to play or ...

The Lighter Sides of Summer

Machnak offers several recipes, including creamy lime slaw, grilled potato salad and shaved cantaloupe and prosciutto salad.

7 Great Grilling Wines

Schneider presents seven great grilling wines and their perfect barbecue pairings. A recipe for spicy ginger barbecue sauce is included.

What's in Season? Squash Blossoms

Dean offers a recipe for squash blossom, avocado, and butter lettuce salad.

Fresh-Air Feast

On God's Mountain Estate, out in a vineyard overlooking a shimmering Lake, chef-caterers Cameron Smith and Dana Ewart cook and serve simple, beautiful wine dinners using ingredients from the land around them--the lush Okanagan Valley, in British Columbia. Although they have no restaurant their naturally elegant, intensely flavorful cooking is helping shape a new regional cuisine in a place that's never been known for great food. Some of their recipes are offered. Here, excerpts from one of th...

Fast & Fresh

Clark and Krahenbuhl hares their respective recipes for tomato pasta and chicken cheesesteaks.

Asian Aromatics

Pham introduces a variety of aromatic herbs and their usage as food wrappers, salads, and soup sprinkles. He presents three recipes where some of these herbs are put to use, including red perilla, red shiso for sizzling saigon crepes recipe.

Blast From the Past

Tales of the Road