Reaching the Summit of Mount Kilimanjaro There is something about volcanoes that fascinates me, and finds me craving to conquer their summits to be able to satisfy my curiosity and peer down their crater rims. Having climbed Mount Etna (3350... Read More >>
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Incognito Contest Nov-Dec 2008 I am standing at the southwestern tip of a country located on an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. I am in the city that lies perilously close to this monstrous volcano, which showers the local inhabi... Read More >>
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Chinese Culture Seen Through Olympic Rings The traveler that journeys with an open mind and an eagerness to learn wherever he or she goes comes home with more than souvenirs and memory cards full of pictures; they come home with unparalleled e... Read More >>
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The People: Meeting the Maasai We step out of the car into the hot blowing dust of southern Kenya, into a different world in a different time.A dozen stately Maasai in bright red and purple robes surround us. Ebony colored ha... Read More >>
The Punkva Caves, Czech Republic I hadn’t driven a car in five months, not since we had traded our’s in for bicycles and began our epic journey around Europe, Western Asia and North Africa with our four children. Wit... Read More >>
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In Translation: Language Gaffes in Brazil Learning a new language can open you to a new world. In Portuguese, when you ask if someone if they have been to a place before, the direct translation is, “Do you know…?” ... Read More >>
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Itching for Ingapirca I had to get out of Cuenca. The six days of entrance exams (prospective students at my language school had to take an oral/written placement test prior to course registration) that I had just en... Read More >>
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Blues, Beer, and Cotton Gins: The Shack Up Inn We were weeks into our cross-country road trip when we arrived in Clarksdale, Mississippi, home of the Blues. It was there that Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads i... Read More >>
Cycling the Dalmatian Islands with Ana Ana just might be the hardest-working tour guide in Europe. During the week she led our cycling tour around Croatia’s Dalmatian Islands she rode with us, entertained us, educated us, and w... Read More >>
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Enjoy a Romantic Interlude at Canada’s Reesor Ranch “You will have to live the life of a cowboy for a while,” an acquaintance I had met in Val Marie commented when I told him that I would be spending the next night at the Historic Reesor Ra... Read More >>
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Diving Dominica Dominica (pronounced Dom-in-ee-ka) is situated between Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean, with the rocky Atlantic Ocean on one side and the calming Caribbean on the oth... Read More >>
Gerber Multi-Pliers A while back I did a review of a few Leatherman tools which I said, at the time, were one of the most useful things one might carry on a trip, with the possible exception of a towel. Recently it came ... Read More >>
Tastes Like Home: Melbourne’s Chinatown We had driven twenty-one hours, endured the elements, one another’s company, McDonald’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner, in preparation for the culinary delights of Melbourne’s China... Read More >>
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As we move through September, thoughts of the next couple months spring to mind: foliage season melts into delicious Thanksgiving food, which leads to gifts in December and champagne on the New Year. It also means traveling to be with family. And unfortunately, flight tickets are not looking inexpensive.
It seems as if Hurricane Earl couldn’t have worse timing. As the hurricane roars up the east coast, the rain, high waters and cooling temperatures will most likely cause wrinkles in many travelers’ plans for Labor Day weekend.
It looks like the tourism tide has shifted in the Gulf of Mexico, and it might be the smart traveler who takes advantage of the deals. After the world’s worst oil spill and the largest environmental cleanup efforts in U.S. history, Gulf states are doing their best to re-claim their image of sunny vacation lands. And these states are getting a big boost from BP.
JetBlue once again made a big splash in the travel community with its All-You-Can-Jet pass that lets a passenger fly an unlimited number of times during one month for a set price. JetBlue provided two passes: one for seven days a week for $699, and one that excluded traveling on Fridays or Sundays for $499. The pass sounds fabulous, with 60 cities to choose from, all taxes included for domestic flights, and, yes, unlimited flights for a whole month (although you have last pick of seats).
Florida Tourism is being hit hard by the April 24th oil spill when less than 10% of the beaches are actually affected in the northwest region. Currently, during high tourism season, bookings are down by almost 50% in parts of the Panhandle State. Economists fear that if tourism does not lift, 195,000 jobs and billions of dollars could be lost.