Back from Palm Beach!

Just back from some R&R in Palm Beach where I stayed with our friends Jaye, an artist, and Perry, a former publisher and broadcaster.

Perry, the grand-nephew of the great financier and friend of Franklin Roosevelt, Bernard Baruch, has been coming to PB for over seventy years. As a teenager with a beautiful society mother, Amalia, and a Rolls-Royce, Perry was wined and dined by all the debutantes and their mothers. As he said: “If you were a guy, had a tuxedo and you knew how to dance, you were in.” Perry is still very much a ladies man, debonair, charming, and very complimentary — a true gentleman.

Me, I hightailed it to the beach to soak up the rays, listen to the ocean and just BE. I did visit the famous Worth Avenue –- think NY Madison Avenue, Beverly Hills, Rodeo Drive – where, on a beautiful Saturday afternoon I the height of “the season” – the stores were empty.  More fallout from the Madoff Ponzi scheme.  He certainly cut a wide swath through PB.  The good news bargains abound, and Perry, who loves to shop with women and has a good eye for fashion –  convinced me to buy a “nouveau” flapper dress at BCBG – just in time for my friend, Donna’s, son’s wedding next week.

GREAT NEWS on the home front! Now visitors to our site can book their travel directly through our link to BestFares.com on our Home page.  And, here’s the best part: if you put Susi in the search bar, there are special discount fares for Let’s Travel! listeners.  You can also tune into my interview with Tom Parsons, founder of Best Fares, on our Homepage for the latest discount fares and travel tips.

We’re also still looking for interns to help us spread word in cyberspace about Let’s Travel!  So if you’re a wiz at social networking, love travel and want to learn about Internet radio, send us an email at [email protected] and join our team!