There are 12 cities in the U.S.A. with professional teams in all four major league sports: basketball, football, baseball and hockey. One of those cities is the fifth largest in population (1.4 million). That city hosted the Bowl Championship Series …
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Kayak Fishing and Osama Bin Laden by Bart Allen Berry
My old climbing buddy Rob calls me to tell me he’s got a beach house for a week on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and he’s taking the week off work in DC and can I come out from …
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The Very Beaten Path by Johnna Kaplan
I wanted to go to Hermann, which made absolutely no sense. Although I do not entirely share the aversion bordering on disdain that many travelers have towards “the beaten path”, I do tend to be skeptical of places that everybody …
The Skyclad Jain monks in Kundalpur by Manuela Pop
During our four months trip in India my husband and I stopped in Khajuraho to visit the Erotic Temples. There, we heard of a small village Kundalpur, where hundreds of Jain Monks will gather in a two-day festival to celebrate …
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Maryland’s Sea Shore in the Mountains
Planning summer vacation – the beach or the mountains? Hmmm – I can never decide, but what about both at the same time? Well, it is possible and I am not kidding. Within driving distance of many east coast and …
The More It Changes, The More It Stays the Same by Linda Ballou
I have been migrating from Los Angeles to Haines, the prettiest little town in Southeast Alaska, for the last 40 years. Like the arctic tern in its epic 25,000- mile round trip journey and the salmon’s primordial yearning to return …
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Edmonton, Alberta’s Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village
ust East of this beautiful, capital city, with its many sky-scrapers and fascinating modern architecture, you’ll find a replica of an early Nineteenth Century town, which enables visitors to see the beginnings of Edmonton. The Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Center is …
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Alberta’s WonderLandscape
We traveled by RV all across Canada, primarily avoiding the cities and enjoying the beautiful landscape, people, mountains, rivers, National and Provencial Parks everywhere we went. Entering the province of Alberta from the East we passed through great grassy prairies, …
It’s All Good Under The Tuscan Sun
Sunday in Tuscany …Time Here: 4:30 p.m. Time Elsewhere: Nowhere else exists. There’s just this place, this sunlight, this peace, this moment in time . . . In Cortona, Italy. I’m writing this on a stone terrace with wrought iron …
Ashland: Scenery, History Plus Shakespeare by Larry and Gail Taylor
Years ago tourists came to Ashland, Oregon, for the waters; now they come to see the plays. From the early 1900s, Ashland locals were aware that the mineral waters bubbling up from Lithia Springs just outside town were beneficial in …
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