By Lauren Varga ON LOCATION Finding Your Skin & Yourself At Miraval My skin was rough, not smooth like some of the others who surrounded me. I’d stop and ask what their secret was, but no answer they offered could remedy the uneasiness. Then, in the heart of the Sonoran Desert, I set an intention [...]
ON LOCATION Vancouver’s Olympic boom? If George Wong ever needed a vote of confidence that the real estate market in Vancouver was on the rebound, there was no better time than February to prove it. The arrival of the 2010 Winter Olympics created a huge boon for the luxury real estate market. Within that two-week [...]
By Lauren Varga ON LOCATION Hosting Hawaiian Traditions When Clifford Nae’ole was a child, he would walk down to the shore and sell coconuts to traveling sailors. Often, he’d take it upon himself to invite the sailors to his Granny’s house for lunch. No matter the number of guests, Granny would serve as a welcoming [...]
At the Saturday morning farmer’s market in Sandpoint, Idaho, craftsmen and farmers gather around Farmin Park with a dual purpose—to catch up with friends and to offer customers fresh produce and homemade goods (huckleberry barbecue sauce, anyone?). The casual, good-natured vibe found at the bustling market also permeates Sandpoint’s luxury second-home communities. At Seasons at [...]
If you were to send a postcard from San Miguel, Mexico, it may be a single snapshot of a couple sitting at a cobblestone sidewalk cafe sipping coffee. And while this is one pastime residents and visitors of the city enjoy, it won’t tell San Miguel’s entire story. San Miguel, a 500-year-old city tucked into [...]
When Jane Broyles-Smith’s husband took a new job in Jupiter, Fla., the couple had a tough decision to make. They didn’t want to part with their home in Houston because Broyles ran an interior design business there. So rather than exchange one home for another, they sought out a Florida condo with turnkey amenities. When [...]
At Algodon Wine Estates, within Argentina’s wine-growing region, Mendoza, savvy buyers can own a piece of what those in the know are calling “the next Napa Valley” for an astoundingly good price. In the rolling foothills of the Sierra Pintada Mountains at the base of the Andes, the 2,050-acre vineyard estate boasts 301 homesites and [...]
Nestled within an almost mystically beautiful setting surrounded by forests of 150-year-old oaks in South Carolina’s Lowcountry is a 3,000-acre community that has been bucking the trends for two decades. Using terms like “wise growth” and “preservation” back in the early 1990s, at a time when green wasn’t very hip, helped set a new bar [...]
