Colorado Adventuring By Air, By Land and By Water
Carly Blatt’s Colorado adventures — mountain biking, boarding, whitewater rafting, sledging, paragliding, alpine sliding, horseback riding, caving, zip-lining, and hot air ballooning
Carly Blatt’s Colorado adventures — mountain biking, boarding, whitewater rafting, sledging, paragliding, alpine sliding, horseback riding, caving, zip-lining, and hot air ballooning
By Jacqueline Harmon Butler Looking out the window of a music store in Lisbon, Portugal, I laughed out loud watching a passing parade of vintage convertible cars progressing along Avenue Liberdade. They were filled with brides in all sizes, shapes and ages, dressed in all their bridal finery. The storeowner told me they were the…
Quebec biking: A trip along Quebec’s Le P’tit Train du Norde Linear little train Bikeway, viewing local scenery and enjoying Quebec food specialties like poutin
Malaysia: Max Hartshorne visits Malaysia and finds three cultures melded into one, the Chinese, Malay and Indian influences are a wonderful melange.
Puerto Plata Dominican Republic, which Christopher Columbus called ‘the fairest land under heaven’ exploring the remote Samana Peninsula.
By Tim Leffel Have you ever bought a calendar on January 1? If so, you probably paid half what buyers did a day or two earlier, even though you’ll use it the same number of days. Have you ever bought a dozen roses on February 15? Christmas candy on December 26? A bathing suit in…
Dubai: Sailing the Arab Dhow in a World of Fantasy. The author meets a local captain in Dubai and joins a sailing expedition in the Arabian Gulf on a dhow.
Kenya: Marie Javins writes about ecotourism on the savannah and meeting the tall Masai people in the east African bush.
Northwest Laos:The author describes a cruise on the Mekong River through Northwest Laos including the famous town of Luang Prabang, City of Temples.
By Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey Where? Protruding from the Saudi Arabian peninsula like a thumb, the emirate of Qatar is small — 4,416 square miles (11,437 sq. km) — and nearly totally surrounded by the turquoise waters of the Arabian Gulf. The country is flat with some rocky outcrops up to 130 feet (40 m) high, with…
Trekking in the World Class Karakoram Mountains of Pakistan By David Rich What place would you nominate as the world’s most spectacular mountain vacationland, an amalgam of beautiful lakes, glaciers, meadows and mountains combined with sincerely hospitable people? Candidates abound. A half dozen finalists might range from Europe’s French, Swiss and Italian Alps to the…
By Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey Where Stretched along the southern coast of the Saudi Arabian Peninsula, Oman covers an area of 120,000 square miles (309,500 sq km), with a coastline of 1,000 miles (1,700 km) reaching from the Arabian Gulf past the Gulf of Oman to the Strait of Hormuz. Oman has 5,106,626 inhabitants, of which 550,000…