Eats, Cruises & Leaves

A trip to view foliage in late autumn doesn't have to mean endless games of license plate bingo and constant pit-stops for cranky kids, just to see acres of orange and yellow blow past the window of a speeding car.

Try something new this fall. See the leaves change from the deck of a boat.

Foliage cruises have been around for decades, but over the last 15 years, they've grown exponentially, piggybacking on the overall growth of the cruise industry, especially the move toward "home ports" and launching cruises from places other than Florida. Since the World Trade Center attacks, the cruise industry has capitalized on the tendency to travel closer to home by running more and more cruises from people's backyards. ...