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Show The Salt Lake Tribune GETAWAYS*ACCOMMODATIONS* FARES SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1996 WHERE ARE YOU? PICY MARTINIQUE Page H-2 Page H-4 OAKS SHADE TOM McCARTHEY The History oO NEW CRUISE GUIDE Fielding’s Guide to Worldwide Cruises is nowonsale The 1996 cruise guide rates 178 ships, profiles 58 cruise lines and offers information for the 220 most-visited ports of call around the world. The 1,154-page bookalso includes freighter cruises, luxury canal barges, river and Beaufort, S.C. By Larry Keller KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWS SERVICE coastal cruises, expedition and BEAUFORT, S.C. — Muchhas beenmade of the burgeoning film adventure cruises, plusitineraries for small sailing ships. Authors Harry Basch and Shirley Slater have personally been aboard all 178 ships reviewed in Fielding’s and have taken more than 200 cruises during the past 15 years. The award-winning husband-and-wife travel-writing team is considered the best in the business. Whereas the term “expert” is thrown about with abandon when it comesto travel writing, these two are the industry in South Florida: Fear,” “True Lies,” ist,” “Striptease has been the setting of “The Great Santini,” “The Big Chill,” “The Prince of Tides Forrest Gump,” “The Jungle Book” and Something to Talk About.” other movie filmed here, Dance.” An “Last starring Sharon Stone and Rob Morrow, is expected to bereleased in a few months The town’s appeal to filmmak ers is simple: like Lauren Bacall Six-star ratings are utilized in the book forthefirst time in Beaufort (pronounced BEW-fort is old, yet still lovely. And not just The elite group of for filmmakers. Last year. 95,000 six-star-rated ships includes: Crystal Harmony and Crystal Symphony (Crystal Cruise: Radisson Diamond and Song Flower (Radisson Seven Seas Cruises); Royal Viking Sun, Sea Goddess I and Sea Goddess II (Cunard Line); Seabourn Pride, Seabourn Spirit and Queen Odyssey (Seabourn Cruises); and Silver Cloud and Silver Wind (Silverseas Cruises). tourists passed through town Established in 1711, Beaufort is the second-oldest town in South Carolina. Its streets arelined with beautiful antebellum and pre Revolutionary War mansions The oldest homein townis the Thomas Hepworth House, built in 717 15 years before George Washington was born. Many of the quiet streets are shaded b) TomSanders Aerial Focus photo Jan Davis in a free-fall parachute drop from AngelFalls: “| have nothing to prove to anyone. | do it because | enjoyit. oO MOBIL RATINGS OUT Thirteen restaurants and 23 hotels in the UnitedStates and Canada have received a fivestar rating in the new 1996 Mo. bil Travel Guides Nine restaurants received fare, Bay Street, overlooks marshes and the Beaufort River k Outer Edge the top rating forthe first time: It looks as if it hasn't changed in 40 years On Bay Street you can drop by the Greater Beaufort Chamber of Commerce's visitor center and 7Outdoor Sports York City; L'Orangerie, Holly- wood; the Restaurant at the Mansion on Turtle Creek, Dallas; and the Beaver Club and Nuances, Montreal The four restaurant holdovers are Le Francais, Wheeling, Ill.; Le Bee-Fin, Philadelphia; the Inn at Little Washington, Washington, Va.; and Maisonette, Cincinnati Six hotels joined the list of massivelive oaks dripping Span ish moss Beaufort is 70 miles southwest of Charleston, 40 miles northeast of Savannah. Its main thorough Going to Extremes Charlie Trotter's and Everest, Chicago; Chanterelle, Lespinasse and Les Celebrities, New pick up a historic district tour map Themap lists two-dozenhistor ic homesthat canbeseenby walk ing, By Mike Steere UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE “Ihave nothing to prove to anyone,” Jan Davis says of her favorite outdoor pastime. “I do it because I enjoyit Lulled by the slow, warm voice — she soundslike the grandmothershe is — you might imagine that the subject is orchidgrowing or birding Davisis, in fact, talking about making a 3,212-foot parachute dropfrom clifftop at Venezuela’s Angel Falls, the world’s highest cataract. This harrowing leap, five-star lodgings: Four Seasons and the St. Regis Hotel, New York City; Four Season Olympic Hotel, Seattle; Little Nell, Aspen, Colo.; Mayflower which Davis says about 80 people have made, is a quintessential “extreme” sport as the word is defined by risk-addicted outdoor athletes. In extreme sports, the margin oferroris minute and the price of erroris, often, yourlife “Smackinto the object from which you jumped, and youdie,” Davis says of BASE (Building, Antenna tower, bridge Span, Earth) jumping, the incredibly unforgiv- ing, no-airplane version of skydiving. Tom Sanders. Thepair runs Aerial Focus a Santa Barbara-based company specializing in skydiving cinematography, film stunts and exhibition jumps Aerial Focus startedits Angel Falls trips at the urging of the owners’ skydiving friends. To take the plunge, vouneed to be a certified expert parachutist with about $5,000. (Cost is the 8-day 00 from Caracas for trip, which includes anight in Caracas at the beginning and end ofthe trip, a canoe trip down a jungle river This autumn you, too, can jump Angel Falls on trip led by Davis and her partner @ See GOING, H-7 driving or taking a horse drawncarriage tour. The hous¢ that movie buffs want most to see is the James Fripp House, called Tidalholm. Standing at the end of a dead end street overlooking a marsh Tidalholmis a handsome two-sto ry white housebuilt in 1850 anc set back fromthe roadamid state ly oaks. It was to this house that Robert Duvall’s character moved his family in “The Great Santini filmedin 1979 Four years later Glenn Close @ See McCARTHEY, H-6 See BE. UFORT, H-3 cane Everyday weoffer over 2,000 flights across our system at the times } oure morelikely to be And t atS reason you should be flying THE LowFare Airline Bt? gagsbense 4 ay “Cape “TheSpecial But it's got nothing on Beaufort. This town of about 10,000 real deal. Harry and Shirley are ‘cruise experts.” 15 years. HI Tosa ne CyLET opegan nero SAT) ere aa SOUTHWEST AIRLINES Call your travel agent or 466-7747 |
