I recently wrote about Fort Bragg North Carolina, the largest Army base east of the Mississippi River, and in a month I will visit Nellis Air Force Base outside Las Vegas, home to the largest air combat training base in …
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Swabian State’s Beautiful Places
Banked by Swabian state forests with beautiful hiking trails and picnic areas is the picturesque city of Karlsrue in Southern Germany. A visitor will find that a good starting place would be to go for an excellent lunch or dinner …
When Traveling In Europe, Follow the Rising Sun by Robert A. Kendrick
The Japanese are an ingenious and industrious people – worthy of admiration. We can’t help but recognize their accomplishments in auto manufacturing and electronics, in which they currently appear to have outdistanced the rest of the world. But, TRAVEL is …
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Camping In The 1920’s
(Editor’s note: This delightful camping recollection is written as told to Real Travel Adventures by our 92 year old traveler.) It was the early 1920’s and I was only about seven years old when my parents decided we’d take …
Finding the Real Gold in Costa Rica by Linda Ballou
After nine days of non-stop fun on a multi-sport adventure with Active South America in Costa Rica, floating belly-up in a secluded cove at Playa Coyote gave me a chance to savor the journey. A morning swim in placid waters …
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WILD ABOUT WACO! by Dean & Nancy Hoch
What’s exciting to do in Waco? More than you’d ever imagine! All our lives we’d heard about Waco, Texas and, being Easterners, just the very name sounded so Western and so filled with “Heart-of-Texas” lore. We knew Waco was located …
Southwestern Indiana Back Roads and Small Towns by Nancy S. Tardy
Last summer I wrote an article for Real Travel Adventures about southeastern Indiana, and its small towns and back roads. This year I explored southwestern Indiana, concentrating as I did previously on driving the scenic roads along the Ohio River. …
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Fighting Fire with Fire in South Africa by Julie Thompson
Like getting your hands dirty? Fancy feeding a giraffe, handing out meat parcels to vultures, and then heading off to put out a raging bushfire on the African plains? The Global Volunteer Network’s South Africa program made it all happen …
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RVing in New England by Bonnie and Bill Neely
In the past, we had found some areas of New England and the Middle Atlantic too crowded and too much traffic to really enjoy traveling the area by RV, but this time was different. We discovered some excellent RV parks …
Dining In The Dark by Debra Amundson
Blindekuh,( translates to Blind Cow in English) an unusual restaurant in Zurich Switzerland, is the first of a new and extremely successful dining trend. The restaurant and bar are staffed almost entirely by blind wait staff and all but one …
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