Ritz-Carlton Magazine - Winter 2012 - (Page 60)

FA M I LY T R AV E L STAYING PUT DA N I E L S M I T H A N D H I S FA M I LY DEC I DE TO S PE N D A L I T T L E T I M E TOGE T H E R BY N E V E R L E AV I NG T H E HOT E L PHOTOG RAP H S BY JOAN N A COH EN E HAPPILY ENSCONCED From top: Joanna frolics with her 4-year-old daughter, Annelise, in the “Tranquility Pool” at The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach; Annelise ponders the Atlantic; breakfast at Temple Orange with a teddy she made at AquaNuts. Ever since my daughter was born four years ago, I’ve considered the term “family vacation” to be an oxymoron. If “vacation” suggests calm, escape, relaxation — a jailbreak from the everyday — then taking your kid along would seem to defeat the purpose. It isn’t that I don’t enjoy going away with Annelise: It was a pleasure to walk hand in hand with her through the Tuileries, a delight to go shell hunting together off the frigid coast of Maine. It’s just that going away invariably involves so much … schlepping. Have you ever had to carry a 30-pound child, a 20-pound stroller, and four bags of food, books, toys and souvenirs onto the Paris Metro? I have. It isn’t fun. That is why, the next time my wife, Joanna, suggested we head out of town for a short weekend, I was armed with a suggestion that would minimize our need to play Sherpa and maximize our ability to lounge: Palm Beach, Fla. For years, that razor-thin, semitropical barrier island has served in my imagination as the very symbol of blissful remove. I’m hardly alone in this, of course. Santa Barbara may have trademarked 60 W W W. R I T Z C A R LT O N . C O M http://WWW.RITZCARLTON.COM

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Ritz-Carlton Magazine - Winter 2012

Ritz-Carlton Magazine - Winter 2012
Contents
Contributors
Editor’s Letter
President’s Letter
Falling in Love With ... Hong Kong
Design
Auto
Technology
On the Boulevards
Shopping
Jewelry
Watches
Palm Beach
Wellness
Santiago

Ritz-Carlton Magazine - Winter 2012