Dennis Lennox

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  • Travel: Postcard from Houston

    Travel: Postcard from Houston

    It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the country’s fourth-largest city has plenty to offer visitors.

  • Travel: Postcard from Daytona Beach

    Travel: Postcard from Daytona Beach

    When most people say or think of Daytona Beach, they mean the beach itself and not the city of the same name.

  • Postcard from Meersburg

    Postcard from Meersburg

    Meersburg, Germany is one of those picture-perfect Old World towns. Everything here really owes its existence to the Reformation — particularly influential Swiss reformer Huldrych Zwingli — as the politics of the time drove the Roman Catholic prince-bishop of Constance, Hugo von Hohenlandenberg, from his see across the lake in 1526.

  • Postcard from Corpus Christi

    Postcard from Corpus Christi

    The Texas coastal city of Corpus Christi probably isn’t the first place you think of when planning a trip. I was one of them. I had booked Cinnamon Shore, a Mustang Island development of vacation homes and condos inspired by the classic architecture of Key West and the Bahamas.

  • 3 churches with centuries of history inside

    3 churches with centuries of history inside

    With travel increasingly back to normal now is the time to start making plans for where to go. Consider planning a trip around any of the following three historic churches.

  • Travel returns to normal as pent-up demand continues

    Travel returns to normal as pent-up demand continues

    The travel and tourism industry is back. At least that was the message last week in Virginia Beach, Virginia, at Domestic Showcase, a major regional industry conference sponsored by the Southeast Tourism Society.

  • In Sarasota, Amish snowbirds

    In Sarasota, Amish snowbirds

    As with elsewhere in Florida, snowbirds are a regular sight here. But intermixed with the more stereotypical visitors to Sarasota, a city and county on the Gulf of Mexico coast in southwest Florida, is a large community of Amish.

  • Postcard from Paris: An ancient church restored

    Postcard from Paris: An ancient church restored

    One of the landmarks in the upscale Saint Germain des Prés neighborhood on the Left Bank of the River Seine is the eponymous church with its Romanesque and Gothic architecture. Founded by King Childebert in 543 and later dedicated to St. Germain, the present-day Church of Saint Germain des Prés mostly dates to a rebuilding in the early 11th century before the Great Schism that resulted in the split between Rome and Constantinople.

  • In San Juan, the oldest US church

    In San Juan, the oldest US church

    Most visitors to Puerto Rico seem unaware that the oldest church anywhere in the United States can be found on the Caribbean island territory.

  • Puerto Rico is back after years of challenges

    Puerto Rico is back after years of challenges

    While the U.S. island territory did manage to recover its hospitality and tourism industry, nobody knew that recovery would be short-lived.