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Glamping the Art of Glamorous Camping

Glamping or Glamorous Camping is the new trend; catering only to those who can afford it, which provides the same outdoor idea behind camping yet doesn't have all of the negatives associated with ?roughing it'.

There are two sides to the fence and maybe the grass is greener on the other side. When you compare camping to Glamping we are still talking about tented vacationing in the outdoors, but that is where the similarity ends. There is a big difference between a five-course meal and five hotdogs roasted on the campfire.

The clientele who are choosing to glamp instead of camp have a different threshold when it comes to acceptable comfort levels. Travelers that are used to the (read more)

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Castro at the Hotel Theresa

Fidel Castro's revolution was scarcely a year old when he visited New York in l960 for a meeting of the United Nations. Anxious for propaganda ruses to assure continued support from the Soviet Union, he used deteriorating race relations in the United States, punctuated by forced integration of several Southern universities, as a hand to play with. Though he explained events otherwise, it seems clear that Castro came to New York with the express purpose of embarrassing the federal government. He succeeded, only to a small extent, with New York's historically premiere black hotel, the Theresa, in the center. Castro and his entourage of about eighty traveled from Idlewild to downtown Manhattan. Waving to a crowd of supporters, Castro stuck his arm out the car window, only to have it, he said, roughly pushed back in. The Cuban president filed a complaint (the first of many) about his reception in New York. Things did not improve at the Cuban delegation's first hotel, The Shelburne. (read more)

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