Between Las Vegas and the Northern shore of Lake Mead stretches a most spectacular and awe-inspiring expanse of rugged gray sandstone mountains and rich red, carved rock mounds, which form a popular hiking and picnicking State Park called the Valley …
Category: North America
THE TRAVELING PUBLIC by Steve Phillips
What great times we live in. Now it is possible to fly from London to New York and back in a 24-hour period. The ease of catching a flight from Los Angeles, and the next time your feet touch Terra …
Definitive Guide To Recreational Travel? by Spencer O’Connor
I’m unable to report on Hawaii because it’s very expensive to go there, especially if you’re driving. The reason it’s so expensive is the only people who know the directions to get there are employed by airlines, who claim that …
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THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO RECREATIONAL TRAVEL AND OTHER UNNATURAL ACTS PART 5 by Spencer O’Connor
The first thing I did when I got back from the trip was to ask my friend Howie Peeble why the boundaries for Idaho look like they were laid out on a bar napkin at three in the morning. I …
THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO RECREATIONAL TRAVEL AND OTHER UNNATURAL ACTS by Spencer O’Connor
Washington is pretty much like Oregon. It rains in the west, snows in the east, and volcanoes in the south. The state has very little to offer historically. According to my ninth grade history teacher, Mr. Robert E. Lee Smith, …
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF TRAVEL IN COLORADO by Steve Fey
I’ve lived in Colorado for over sixteen years. In that time I’ve come to appreciate a lot of things about the place, from purple mountains majesty to fruited politicians. I’ve seen quite a lot of the place, too, because I …
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THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO RECREATIONAL TRAVEL AND OTHER UNNATURAL ACTS by Spencer O’Connor
Las Vegas gets all the press, but there are several unusual places to vacation in Nevada. At the top of the list is Carp, which is centrally located only hours from numerous dry lakes, a sheep range, the Atomic Energy …
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WINE AND WATER by Ron Kapon
Just finished reading the exciting novel- Wine & War- “The French, The Nazis and the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure (it wasn’t the Mona Lisa) by Don & Petie Kladstrup. I read a few chapters every evening as I drove …
Las Vegas, The Unreal World Of Fun & Entertainment
We flew on Southwest Airlines into Las Vegas McCarran International Airport and thought we were landing on the moon, as we circled above the mountainous desert landscape of the southern tip of Nevada,one of the most barren states in the …
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Elegant Tuscany Restaurant at Mohegan Sun Casino by Bonnie and Bill Neely
Mohegan Sun Casino, with its beautiful Hotel and Convention Center Complex which just opened last year, is an amazing place to see, even if you are not into gaming. In architectural design it is a modern depiction of Mohegan Sun …
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