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The Right Spot

By Jeremy Goldmeier

Vistas Beckon at Cameron’s Crag at Branson

WHEN KAY AND GLEN Cameron were looking to start their own bed-and-breakfast in 1986, they followed the first law of real estate survival: Build it in the right spot, and they will come. Today, the Cameron’s Crag Bed and Breakfast strikes the perfect balance between the remote and accessible in its location. The guest suites overlook the natural beauty of Lake Ta…... Read more >

Square Beyond Compare

A STAY AT ST. LOUIS’S HISTORIC LAFAYETTE SQUARE OFFERS A VICTORIAN PARK SURROUNDED BY AMAZING ARCHITECTURE AND FINE DINING

By Ann Vernon

Lafayette Square at St. Louis was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The center point of the revitalized area is Lafayette Park, the oldest municipal park west of the Mississippi River. Lafayette Square offers one of the largest collections of Victorian homes in the coun…... Read more >

Romancing the Victorian Past

By Ann Vernon

It was love that brought Jim and Cathlynn (Cate) Dodson from California to Missouri.

“I was having job burnout in Los Angeles,” said Jim. “Cate was a freelance writer who could work anywhere. We were ready for a change, and we had always romanticized about having a B and B.” Cate searched on the internet for bed-and-breakfasts for sale in the Midwest. They found Romancing the Past in Fulton, a Victorian mansion that had…... Read more >

Biking the Katy Trail

By Danita Allen Wood

The young woman on her bike on a city street was a picture-perfect model for any bicycle ad: sleek and tanned, long blonde ponytail under her helmet, outfitted in black biker shorts, socks and shoes. Biking alone, with a little black suitcase fit on the rack above her back tire, similar to the one I’d just bought, she coasted to an intersection, reached down for her water bottle, lifted it, tipped back her head, and t…... Read more >