In your Travel Adventures to Pigeon Forge, TN, one of the events you’ll want to see is the Louise Mandrell Show, which is all new every season, with elegant new costumes, fabulous singing and dancing, and is a delightful event …
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Proper Southern Tea Is Dress-Up Fun! by Bonnie and Bill Neely
Within the Village at Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort, along Florida’s Northernwestern coast, we rediscovered the charm of an authentic Victorian period tearoom, with the delightful ambience and warm hospitality of a “proper” Southern drawing room. When we entered we …
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“Amazon ‘Resort’ Does Not Equal Luxury”
I had been a reluctant traveler to the Tambupata Jungle Resort of Peru, but my always curious husband insisted it would be like one of those fabulous safaris you see on the Travel Channel, and I was persuaded. The word …
Hungarian History In Tour of Budapest by Bonnie and Bill Neely
Hungary is just coming into her own after a long, rocky history in which she lost two-thirds of the Motherland. Her borders once stretched form the Baltic to the Caspian and Adriatic Seas. Through many wars she lost much of …
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Mary King’s Close Edinburgh’s Major New Attraction
The year is 1645. The most virulent strain of the Bubonic Plague has immobilized Edinburgh, Scotland, claiming the lives of more than half the city’s population. The area hardest hit: Mary King’s Close on High Street, a busy thoroughfare and …
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Malcolm Lowry, Mescal, and the Charms of Cuernavaca by Barry Evetts
Of his host country sometime British novelist, short story writer, poet, wanderer and dipsomaniac Malcolm Lowry once said; “Mexico… is the most Christ-awful place in the world to be in any form of distress.” His cry from the heart comes …
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Motorbike Nation by Peter Kauffner
Vietnam has no room left for walking around. It is a nation on a motorcycle, or sometimes a bicycle or pedicab. Yes, there are sidewalks. But in the Vietnamese view, a sidewalk is for parking your motorcycle on, eating on …
Gimmicks by Heidi Ayarbe
All you need is a gimmick, and tourists will flock to the place and pay a ridiculous amount of money for the “experience of a lifetime.” Not even the savviest traveler is immune to the lure (especially if it has …
Dr. Wagner’s Honey Island Swamp Tours
Slidell, LA, just East of New Orleans, is where you’ll find Dr. Paul Wagner’s Honey Island Swamp Tours, Inc., at Crawford Landing on the West Pearl River. The tour is very popular because they have a bus pick-up for New …
World’s Second Largest Paris
Real travel adventures on back roads are about 16 miles from the Oklahoma border on Highway 271, and 109 miles Northeast of Dallas on Highway 19/24, Paris, TX has a population of nearly 26,000. The movie “Paris, Texas,” which was …
