Centering on a neat courthouse square, HOLLY SPRINGS is a time-warped little town that's said to have changed hands 62 times during the Civil War; the minutiae of its otherwise uneventful history fill three splendidly eclectic floors in the...
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The town of RÕO DULCE itself is little more than a truck stop, where traffic for PetÈn pauses before the long stretch to Flores. The town is actually formed out of older settlements, Fronteras to the north and El Rellano to the south,...
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Although it's the Big Island's capital, and largest town, just 45,000 people live in HILO , which remains endearing and unpressured. Mass tourism has never taken off here; basically it rains too much. However, the rain falls mostly at night,...
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