Celebrated on the first Monday in September, Labor Day gets its roots from the Nine-Hour Movement in Canada.  Peter J. McGuire, an American labor leader, witnessed the parades held in support of a printer’s strike, and returned to New York where he organized the first American Labor Day on September 5th, 1882.  It became a federal holiday a couple of years later, and is also a state holiday in every state.
Early Labor Day celebrations were parades and festivals that celebrated the solidarity of the labor movement, but these days most people celebrate the weekend as the end of the …read more

I’m baseball fan, and for a long time the only reason that I was able to score a vacation in certain cities was because there were major league stadiums there.  “There’s baseball there” was a convincing line when trying to sound persuasive about vacationing in Chicago or Toronto.
If you know a baseball fan, you’ll want to pick up the updated edition or Roadside Baseball, a book that manages to combine the best and worst of travel with the best and worst of baseball.  Organized by state, the book is perfect for planning a baseball road trip that is close …read more