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11 rave Sunday December 12 1993 SECTION tta STOPOVERS HEIG1100115 nfl INEWH AILS NEWJNIMEM CENTIKNNIA ByJAYCLARKE KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWSPAPERS Bora Bora A resurrected Club Med opening mid-December Once there was a Club Med on Bora Bora one of the South Pacific's more spectacular islands Then Club Med closed now it's reopening with a beachside lagoon-fronting Tahitian-style village The emphasis here Is on watersports including windsurfing sailing snorkeling and kayaking though a pair of tennis courts are night-lighted Other activities are sailing trips shark-feeding expeditions and jeep excursions into the mountains One-week stays begin at $2340 including airfare Details from (8OO) CLU B-M ED 11 7967 miles14 hours 24 minutes: Miles and flying time for the world's longest scheduled nonstop passenger flight by South African Airways between New York and Johannesburg M31H I SID DO JNIM 1 -----A 1 I 1 '1 E0 '''11 4" we 1' 1 ---Prr t'---T A -4's 5c a 4 0-- 1 it' I 1 I A' iir ji ---77-- i 40 K- A 4- u) 0- II i I 1' N-1 t' v- i-' 41 ----1?" -414 1 4 --A----k 0 have visited Oklahoma twice but I still have a hard time getting a focus on this state Maybe it's because there are so many im- ages ofOldahoma Granted this is a land of cow- boys and Indians but it's many other things as well I Exactly 100 years ago the nation's greatest land run opening the Cherokee Strip to thousands of homesteaders labeled Oklahoma as a frontier state Oklahoma! the Broadway musical that pre- miered 50 years ago gave us a Pollyannaish view of rural Oklahoma at the turn of the century Humorist Will Rogers with his homespun phi- losophy made Oklahoma a happy household word in the '30s In that same decade author John Steinbeck gave us a more disturbing look at the state focusing on the deprived Okies in his The Grapes Wra A Some people see Oklahoma as the quintes- sential Plains state with corn growing as high as an elephant's eye from horizon to horizon For others in the years when the state rode high on oil men like Frank Phillips (Phillips 66) were more a symbol of Oldahoma than were the cowboys and ranchers Modern Oklahoma is a blend of all these things albeit with some 20th-century twists The distressed Okies of the 1990s are refugees from an oil bust not a Dust Bowl Cowboys and Indians still exist to be sure but the visitor is more likely to see them not in their homes on the range but in museums paintings rodeos and other public shows And the common image of Oldahoma as an 4 endless field of wheat and corn which was never true anyway is forever shattered once the visitor glimpses the skyscrapers of Oklahoma City the beautiful hill country in the Ouachita Mountains the well-preserved art deco high-rises in Tulsa and More on OKLAHOMA on Page 6 I England's Lake District Explore Wordsworth's home Dove Cottage a stone house at Grasmere where the beloved poet worked and where literary exhibitions are held Visit Hill Top Beatrix Potter's farmhouse near Sawrey where Peter Rabbit's 100th birthday party is in progress Wake up to an English breakfast of orange juice eggs bacon Cumberland sausage and stout Dutch coffee at How Foot Hotel a historic bed and breakfast In Grasmere from the British Tourist Authority 625 Michigan Ave Suite 1510 Chicago III 60611-1977 (312)787-0490 THE CARIBBEAN Nevis: Lost in yestelyear's fog Star-Telegram fileJUNE NAYLOR RODRIGUEZ ThearchitectureolGuthrieOklarecallsdaysolold Oklahoma celebrates 100 years of being more than just the Old West FRESH AIR By MONTE WILLIAMS NEW YORK DAILY NEWS A fter landing on St Kitts we cruised slowly toward our destination its tiny sister island Nevis 1 was taking in the vista when I spotted something out of place a volcano capped by silver smoke Mount Nevis1 later learned is inactive and what 1 thought was smoke was in reality an obstinate cloud that sits atop the volcano day and night Still the effect is dramatic Proud and foreboding Mount Nevis looks like a sentinel guarding a treasure discouraging those who would rob the island of its impossible beauty and provincial civility The peak so dominates this sliver of paradise that when Columbus first eyed it in 1493 he believed it to be snowcapped and dubbed the island "Nuestra Senora de las Nieves" (Our Lady of the Snows) At some point the name was shortened to Nevis (pronounced kneeviss) This former British territory is the Caribbean ofdays gone by: quiet unhurried Gentle Nevis is not an easy escape however and perhaps that explains why it remains largely undeveloped: 36 square miles of coral sand beaches rain forests and green hills dotted with 17th-century churches and the ruins ofsugar mills Donkeys and goats many of them wild outnumberthe 8500 human inhabitants of Nevis Traffic often comes to a halt for ambling four-legged creatures More on NEVIS on Page 4 JOSHUA TREE 15It --'-'-i '( p2161114 le t' 414 Nil '''t1 4-i t' --4- d4 12V National monument is a good place for hikers rock climbers California Division of Tourism Long-homed sheep By ALFRED BORCOVER CHICAGO TRIBUNE 'c i 7 1 vs I st JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL MONUMENT Calif A chill wind nipped at visitors to this rugged preserve 50 miles northeast of Palm Springs A day earlier rain had washed the desert landscape and snow had capped the highest mountains rising above the Coachella Valley To add one more element to this complex ecosystem a mild earthquake also had rumbled along the San Andreas Fault which lies beneath this area of Southern California At the Oasis Visitor Center and Joshua Tree headquarters about a mile east of Twentynine Palms a father approached a National Park Service rangernaturalist to ask where he might take his daughter to touch snow There were isolated patches along some roads they were INSIDE 4p An old travel club t0 reappears with a new name and even greater deals to4 Think ofTexas with iguanas and you've got Aruba California Division of Tourism MoreonJOSHLIA TREE on Page 5 Sunset at Joshua Tree National Monument 1 1 40 't A 4.