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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Fighting Fire with Fire in South Africa by Julie Thompson
Like getting your hands dirty? Fancy feeding a giraffe, handing out meat parcels to vultures, and then heading off to put out a raging bushfire on the African plains? The Global Volunteer Network’s South Africa program made it all happen …
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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 …
Dining In The Dark by Debra Amundson
Blindekuh,( translates to Blind Cow in English) an unusual restaurant in Zurich Switzerland, is the first of a new and extremely successful dining trend. The restaurant and bar are staffed almost entirely by blind wait staff and all but one …
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 …
The Skyclad Jain monks in Kundalpur by Manuela Pop
During our four months trip in India my husband and I stopped in Khajuraho to visit the Erotic Temples. There, we heard of a small village Kundalpur, where hundreds of Jain Monks will gather in a two-day festival to celebrate …
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Maryland’s Sea Shore in the Mountains
Planning summer vacation – the beach or the mountains? Hmmm – I can never decide, but what about both at the same time? Well, it is possible and I am not kidding. Within driving distance of many east coast and …
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