PHOTOS: ALLYSON SLOWAY, EMILY DAILY, CJ LOTZ DIEGO
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Noah Cyrus at Moon River Festival; Chimney Rock in North Carolina; an Irish garden.
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G&G Editors Travel
the South—and Beyond |
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Snorkeling in Carolina mountain streams, midsummer meetups in the Bluegrass State, and concerts at home and abroad were just a few of the ways our editors spent their vacations last year. And they picked up some unique souvenirs along the way, with senior editor CJ Lotz Diego taking the prize for the most memorable—a husband! Read more about editors’ favorite destinations and where they’re hoping to go this year.
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ELSEWHERE AROUND THE SOUTH |
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Revamped Motor Lodges:
Seven Southern Standouts |
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New York City. When my teenage son called my bluff on an “experience” Christmas gift instead of yet another Nintendo game, I had to make it good. That’s how we found ourselves aboard Amtrak’s Northeast Regional on a recent wintery weekend, departing home in Charlottesville, Virginia, and bound for Broadway. If you’re unfamiliar with NYC, it’s a somewhat bustling metropolis situated next to a statue of a tall green lady holding a torch.
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The main attraction: Broadway currently hosts many shows of artistic ambition. We came instead to see Spamalot. Sam and I are both Monty Python nerds, and this song-and-dance adaptation of the classic 1975 flick Monty Python and the Holy Grail is as full of silly gags and quotable lines as a fan could ever want. We hummed one hilarious showstopper the entire subway ride back to a good friend’s loaned apartment in Brooklyn.
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Picky eating: Traveling with a teenage boy doesn’t encourage adventurous dining, but there are worse places than NYC to scarf bagels and pizza. We started at Old Town Bar for fat cheeseburgers delivered to the mahogany-and-marbled downstairs via a vintage dumbwaiter. Lunch the next day required a pilgrimage to the Upper West Side and Cheesy Pizza, a no-frills slice joint where, when Sam was small, I demonstrated the folding of a flat, floppy, New York–style slice bigger than his head. There are hipper pizza places, but Sam and me, we’re Cheesy people. For our pre-Spamalot feed, we pushed through the scrum at Carmine’s in Times Square only to discover I’d made a reservation for the next night. Undeterred, we squeezed stools up to the bar and shared a perfect platter of spaghetti and meatballs.
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Killing time: A snow squall drove half of the city, including us, into the American Museum of Natural History. The two-story Nintendo flagship store was an even bigger draw, proving video games are never far from mind. If you desire objects bearing the mustachioed image of a plumber named Mario, it’s definitely the place.
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