I was last in South Africa 28 years ago. I remember the “whites only” beaches; the Carlton Hotel in Johannesburg (now part of the convention center); Nelson Mandela was unknown outside a small circle of people (and in prison); The …
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Scotland:A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST by Mary McIntosh
I stood on a grassy slope in Scotland and gazed down at Skara Brae, the village occupied by prehistoric people for six hundred years before the Romans occupied the British Isles. Included in a tour of Scotland was a visit …
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Paddling the Waters of Hong Kong by Antonio Graceffo
An unemployed travel writer and former merchant seaman, I was bumming along the coast near Hong Kong’s Deep Water Bay, when I stumbled onto a sign which read “Boat trip around the world, only $100 HK.” Having nothing to keep …
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Costa Rica’s Monteverde Cloud Forest
The modern tourism bus picked us up early from our Arenal Country Inn for our boat ride across Lake Arenal, the prettiest and most efficient way to get to Monteverde Cloud Forest from Arenal, unless you want to ride horses …
Driving Across The U.S. In 1936 by Nelle Burgess
OLD LINCOLN HIGHWAY Editor’s note: The year 2006 celebrates the 50th anniversary of the federal law that began the USA’s vast Interstate Highway System. This year, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of United States Federal Highways, a motorcade …
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Beautiful India, Part 4 (Please see June, July, and August issues) by Arvind Viswanathan
I was taken to a village high up on the mountain, along the narrow road to the Nicholas Roerich Museum. Nicholas Roerich was a Russian Renaissance man who lived from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. He was an …
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Trading Home Comforts For Dreamy Mountains in Nepal by Julie Thompson
The comforts of the west are definitely lacking in Nepal says Britta Schroeder, a volunteer from Colorado, U.S. But despite living on rice and sleeping in a straw bed for 4 months, she would not have traded her experiences as …
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ZEN AND THE ART OF ICE-FISHING WINTER ON THE FROZEN LAKES OF TRAVERSE CITY by Michael A. Norton
A russet winter sunset illuminates a fishing shanty “village” on the ice of Green Lake, just south of Traverse City, Mich. near the Interlochen Center for the Arts. How good is the fishing around Traverse City? So good that in …
CALIFORNIA DREAMING LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO by Ron Kapon
People often ask me what I do on my trips. The answer for a travel writer, “I work!” Maybe I get in a few minutes in the fitness center or pool, but mostly I am reviewing all the press material …
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Try Dublin – It’s a Riot!
We were to go to Dublin in February 2006. My eldest son (`BJ’) and his wife, Jo, are rugby football fanatics and wanted to see the international game between Wales and Ireland. We have not had many times together, so …
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