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...bush walking in the Australian outback or skiing in Austria (the town of Obertraun is described as "Europe's nude ski mecca"), all without wearing a stitch. There are naturist flights to Canc?n in Mexico (they can be combined with a week in the El Dorado Resort and Spa, a section of which is reserved for nude vacationers). Or how about nude Mediterranean cruises, Jamaican weddings or?for the more daring? piranha-fishing expeditions in the Amazon? Spartan, old-style nudist colonies are on the decline, replaced by holiday options every bit as slick as those available to clothed travelers...
...dead bodies." (Partly for budgetary reasons, the scripted Vegas series still shoot mostly in L.A.) Now even cartoonists are rolling the dice: this fall NBC launches Father of the Pride, a computer-animated series from the makers of Shrek, about a family of lions in Siegfried & Roy's Mirage Resort revue. (Fortunately for NBC, it was, ahem, a tiger that severely mauled Roy Horn last fall...
...lake, must visits and buys include the wineries Silver Thread (the area's only organic producer), Standing Stone and Red Newt. Among the preferred west-side wineries are Fox Run and the rightfully acclaimed Hermann J. Wiemer. Try to snare a room at the Geneva on the Lake resort, a real beauty equipped with pool and croquet, the perfect balm after a hard day on the wine trails...
DIED. DICK DURRANCE, 89, American ski racer who developed some of the most notable ski resorts in the Rocky Mountains; in Carbondale, Colo. After retiring from competition--with 17 national titles, an achievement that later got his face engraved on the medal awarded by the U.S. Ski Association--he became manager of the Aspen Skiing Corp. in 1947, ultimately transforming a three-run mountain into an international resort destination...
...Lessons are held at a nearby camp run in conjunction with the Thailand Elephant Conservation Center. Here, mahout wannabes are put through their paces on the backs of the resort's quartet of female elephants?Champen, Lawann, Tantawan and Yom. Riding one of them is as fun as it looks: nudge both her ears to move forward, squeeze your knees together to stop, rock backwards to reverse, be patient when she pauses to relieve herself or yank the shoots off a tree (which happens about every 30 seconds...