I am a hiker. But at home, no one uses a machete to blaze the trail prior to walking on it as did Souza, our Amazon guide, creating a path in the overgrown rainforest step by step. Slicing, swatting, swooping, …
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The Famous Route 66?? by M’Liss A Hinshaw
Route 6 and Letterman Rt. 6, you mean the famous Route 66? No, Rt 6! I had never heard of it until visiting Provincetown, Massachusetts, and came to the end of the road in Cape Cod overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. …
A Portal in Time by Kregg P.J. Jorgenson
If you don’t believe in time travel, then perhaps a boat cruise through the San Juan Islands in the Pacific Northwest may just persuade you that it’s possible. Here, the decades and centuries seem to disappear in the natural splendor …
CAODAI CALLING by John M.Edwards
A traveler to an architectural oddity in Tay Ninh, Vietnam, tunes in to the otherworldy call of a wacky bizarro cult “What on my first two visits has seemed gay and bizarre (was) now like a game that had gone …
Columbia- My Alma Mater; Colombia- Paradise Found by Ron Kapon
When I was invited to spend six days in Colombia (Republic of Colombia) the only thing I knew about the country (not my college and graduate school, spelled with a U) was the long ago violence of Pablo Escobar and …
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Indianapolis: A Quick Sampling by Terry Zinn
I shouldn’t be, but I am constantly surprised at how much quality most American big cities have to offer the casual tourist in the way of cultural attractions, fine dining and comfy lodgings. My recent short stay in Indianapolis reaffirmed …
Six Excellent KOA’s To Reserve
HOLBROOK Petrified Forest ( Arizona) KOA Holbrook, about 80 miles from the New Mexico border on Interstate 40 is a nice little town in the middle of seemingly nowhere. This is desert country, but there are so many things to …
The World’s a Green at Hyatt Regency Monterey by Emma Krasov
Photography by Yuri Krasov Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa on Del Monte Golf Course, just a couple hours drive from San Francisco, is actually on the golf course, so it’s practically a gigantic golf club with swimming pools and …
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Hot Air Balloon Fiesta: Albuquerque, New Mexico’s Spectacle in the Sky by Terry Zinn
There are some major world spectacles that must be experienced more than once. The Albuquerque Annual October Balloon Fiesta is one of them. Usually the first and second weekends of October Albuquerque, New Mexico, is host to a plethora of …
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Extreme Adventures in Extremadura by John M.Edwards
After a fiesta somewhere in Spain’s northern Rioja region, where the locals welcomed us with shotglass shouts of twenty-five-cent vino rosso, while Mecano’s “Hijo de la Luna” played sweetly in the background, followed by the raucous Gypsy Kings, we only …
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