LAST CHANCE to join Marianne Cornetti at Carols &.Find Your Ugly Sweater & Celebrate the Season!.His favorite past times are exploring new wines and cuisine, watching film, both vintage and recent, theater, baseball (Pirates and Wild Things), the Steelers, history and architecture and just plain old lying around doing nothing more than thinking. In his travel writing, his interests include history, food and wine, entertainment, general attractions, museums, recreation and adventure travel, spas, resorts, inns and hotels, festivals, architecture, theater, and more In his spare time, he also puts his horticultural interests to good use on his 15-acre farm located near Centerville, Pa where he grows berries, vegetables and fruit. Some of his favorite places are the Cote d'Azur, California, Portugal, France, Oregon, Mexico, Napa and Sonoma, New England and Quebec - both the city and province. His travels have taken him to Europe seven times, to Mexico several times, to the Caribbean, Costa Rica, almost all of Canada's provinces from Newfoundland to British Columbia and Vancouver Island and all 50 US states. For ten years, he was the travel correspondent for the 86 newspaper consortium, Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc., and his travel articles are posted to the website. Dave Zuchowski has been writing about travel for twenty-five years, and his articles have made the pages of many newspapers and magazines across the country, including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Tribune-Review, the Erie Times, the Hartford Currant, the Fredericksburg Free Lance Star, AAA, Pathfinders, West Virginia Magazine, Southsider, and Westsylvania.