WASHINGTON — Learn to tango, make a quilt, blend Scotch whisky or brew beer.

These experiences and 96 more can be part of your next vacation, as described in the recently published book, "The 100 Best Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life," by Pam Grout (National Geographic,$19.95).

A tango vacation in Buenos Aires can last anywhere from three days to a month; details at www. argentinatango.com. Canada PEI (www.eslhomestay.ca) organizes eight-day quilting vacations on Prince Edward Island. At the Glengoyne Distillery 15 miles north of Glasgow, Scotland, you can take a two-hour course or get a whole day of tutorials in Scotch whisky. Details at www.glengoyne.com. If your taste runs more to beer than the hard stuff, BeerTrips.com offers trips to German beer regions as well as to Belgium, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and other locales known for excellence in suds.

Other trips described in the book range from teaching English in Palestinian refugee camps in the Middle East, organized by Project Hope, to a five-week business course in China, offered by World Link Education. Classes are taught in English, but basic Mandarin instruction is part of the curriculum, and sightseeing options are available too.

— The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — Actor Morgan Freeman is opening his second blues club in Mississippi.

This one will be outside the Mississippi Delta.

Freeman announced that he will open a Ground Zero Blues Club at the Pearl River Resort run by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in Neshoba County. The original club, owned with businessman Bill Luckett, is in Clarksdale.

The club will be located in the Golden Moon Hotel and Casino, one of the Choctaws' two casinos near Philadelphia.

Freeman said construction will begin this month with a planned completion date in October.

Freeman and tribal chief Beasley Denson said the new club will feature blues music and the restaurant will serve fried or grilled catfish sandwiches and the club's famous Highway 61 Burger.

— The Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — Developers have tentative approval to start building a luxury resort with golf and skiing on the Idaho side of Bear Lake.

The Black Bear Resort plans to start selling the first of thousands of custom building lots by summer 2009, giving the market for high-end developments time to recover.

Idaho regulators still have to be convinced the resort has enough water rights. To compensate for groundwater withdrawals, the developers say they bought a ranch at another location where they will leave water rights untouched.

"Bear Lake County never had a project as big as this," said Bill Poce, senior vice president of marketing for the Salt Lake City developers, Bruce Barrett and Brad Auger.

The group, The Retreat at Bear Lake, acquired 2,207 mountain acres from cattle ranchers and others for the membership-style residence club. Building lots are being advertised for up to $925,000. Golf and ski memberships will be sold for hefty fees.

That has been the model for a number of developments around Park City and in other Western resort areas that have fallen on hard times. Buyers have turned skittish, banks stingy and market turmoil is drying up credit.

"We understand the problems they're going through — some related to sales, some related to banking problems," Poce said. "But there is still some activity in that market, and our marketing entry price is going to be substantially lower."

The resort also plans to build a 600-slip marina on Bear Lake and a ski area. Details at www.blackbear.com.