Duke's Place News

Leavenworth's Toast to Bavaria Makes Every Day Festive

(News Item #0010, 01/25/07) Seattle PI Newspaper — By THOM KOSCHWANEZ P-I COLUMN ASSISTANT It is not a vast distance -- as the crow flies -- from Seattle to Leavenworth. The Cascade Mountains however loom between the two, and while on some days it... read more ›

Finding a Home Away from Home

(News Item #0129, 11/27/06) BudgetTravel.com — Brian Sharples, the cofounder and CEO of HomeAway, came by the other day to talk about the company's plans to become the go-to source for vacation rentals. HomeAway recently secured $160 million in fi... read more ›

Location, Location ... And a Hot Tub

(News Item #0005, 07/29/06) Tacoma News Tribune — You've found a place in the sun, but you can't use it all the time. If you were going to rent it out- perhaps to offset maintenance and mortgage costs- what would be the best thing you could do for th... read more ›

The Vacation Home Store

(News Item #0012, 07/01/06) Costco Connection Magazine — William May, a Costco member in Seattle and now President of Sunspot Resorts, knows a little about furnishing a vacation home. In 1999, he and his family purchased a house on a popular lake in central... read more ›

Author Campaigns for Relief from "Vacation Deficit Disorder"

(News Item #0114, 04/14/04) ChicagoTribune.com — Virginia Brown has not taken a full-bore vacation in more than six years. The 29-year-old consultant works in a deadline-driven environment ar her full-time job, only to run off to college classes tw... read more ›

America Needs a Vacation

(News Item #0095, 08/24/03) Seattle Times Newspaper — "How do Americans do it?" asked the stunned Australian I met on a remote Fijian shore. He had zinc oxide and a twisted-up look of absolute bafflement on his face. I'd seen that expression before, on G... read more ›