Wilmington, NC, one of the best destination travel cities in the Carolinas, offers something for everyone. Since the late 1700’s ships have made their way to this port where the wide Cape Fear River provided safe harbor from the Atlantic …
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Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas by Nancy S. Tardy
Petit Jean State Park near Morrilton, Arkansas, is the oldest state park in the state and is conveniently located near I-40 about one hour west of Little Rock. This is a park that warrants making a detour or even special …
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Anchors Away by Ron Kapon
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
Phoenix: Sportstown America by Ron Kapon
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 …
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 …
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