Three Southern Towns Where Trains Run Up Main Street. By Herb Hiller Americans don’t ride American trains for getting anywhere fast. Okay, maybe in the Northeast, but we surely don’t ride coach through the South expecting overnight sleep. Instead of lullabies, we get lurch-inducing railbeds. On the other hand, rewards come from looking out windows…
Nosy Be, Madagascar. Jean M. Spoljaric meets lemurs and spends time at Sakatia Lodge in the Mitsio archipelago.
Namibia: Tracking Rhinos with Local experts in the Savannah By Margie Goldsmith I bounced along the rocky track beneath the cloudless cerulean sky with my guide, Raymond, looking for a rhinoceros in Damaraland, Namibia. This area has the largest population of African free-roaming desert-adapted black rhino and is the reason I came here. My fascination…
An African Looks at Africa: Cape Town to Cairo With Sihle Kumalo Review by Ariel Newman In his new book ‘Dark Continent My Black Arse,’ Sihle Khumalo takes his readers on his trip from Cape Town to Cairo. Using his own money and motivation, he travels through Africa using buses, minbuses, trucks and other forms…
By Max Hartshorne GoNOMAD Editor In the part of Rhode Island far south of Newport and Providence, an accent predominates. You hear people cheering for the Celtics and the Red Sox in the bars in a distinct Southern Mass/RI accent. Think Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in Good Will Hunting, or those lovable Tappet Brothers…
A guide to the South Bronx in New York City, which the author calls ‘a slice of life unlike any in the world.’ The Kingsbridge Armory, and other sites.
Trekking in Africa by Roman Skaskiw Coca Cola road signs marked the road to Moshi, Tanzania, a small Tanzanian town in the shadow of Kilimanjaro, popular among trekkers. We arrived through the Coca Cola traffic circle, and drove past the Coca Cola post office. I could have sworn the map on worldtimezones.com showed a break…
Tour D’Afrique a grueling bike race from Egypt to the tip of South Africa through Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt. Cairo to Capetown!
Planeterra – The G.A.P Adventures Foundation: Helping the Children of Peru By Melissa Vitti The country of Peru evokes images of breathtaking landscapes which once were home to the ancient Incan empire. Today, in Cuzco, Peru, where the heart of this empire once stood, is a city full of impoverished and displaced children working and…
By Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey Where Zanzibar consists of several small islands in the Indian Ocean, some 40 kilometers off the Tanzanian mainland, six degrees south of the equator. There are two main islands, Pemba and Unguja, also called Zanzibar Island. On Zanzibar Island, which is roughly 1,651 square kilometers small, the capital Stone Town, or Zanzibar…
Dead Men Don’t Leave Tips: Adventures Across Africa By Brandon Wilson Baboon Platoons “If you tell people to live together; you tell them to quarrel.” ~African Proverb What Does It Take to Follow Your Dream? Quite a bit, if your dream involves crossing Africa! That’s what Brandon and Cheryl Wilson discover when they set off…
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro Brazil A guide to the exciting city including Ipanema and the favelas, art museums, beaches and places to see in the city.
