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 …
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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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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 …
YORK, PA: THE FACTORY TOUR CAPITAL OF THE WORLD by Fyllis Hockman
I watch the kettle-cooked potato chips George Bush eats on Air Force One bubble up in the pot. I sip coffee that was specially blended to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge’s specifications. And these are just two of the many treats …
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Bluebird Skies Return to Southwest Colorado by Linda Ballou
An Anasazi Indian legend speaks of the Spirit Horse that appears as a flashing light in dreams. He seeks the rider untamed enough to follow him and the most honorable and outrageous dreams to grant. In the case of Gene …
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Mountain Bikes and Motor Bikes;in Brian Head, Utah Travel Adventures in Outdoor sports are great here anytime of year. by Bonnie and Bill Neely
Photos Courtesy of Cedar Breaks Lodge and Spa Cedar Breaks National Monument, UTJust three hours from the stark man-made artificiality of Las Vegas you’ll find one of Nature’s most beautiful hidden treasures in the United States: Cedar Breaks National Monument …
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