by Karoline Cullen A lush rolling fairway is fringed with fluttering palm trees and backed by snow-capped mountains. As you pass one golf course after another, this is the quintessential view in the desert valley stretching from Palm Springs to La … [Read More...]
Washington DC’s International Spy Museum
Mission Impossible: Mission Revealed by Chris McBeath Today, it is estimated that there are 42 active counter intelligence agencies in the world, spending over US$30 billion per year. That’s about $82,191,780 per day. We were given two … [Read More...]
Amazon Healer in Colombia
by Roberta Staley After years spent travelling to some of the more grim areas of the world without getting sick, the Patron Saint of Safe Travel, Saint Christopher, seemingly abandoned me. Here I was in a little hotel in Bogotá in Colombia, … [Read More...]
Exploring Britannia Mine Museum
by W. Ruth Kozak “Be sure and wear a hard hat, and be careful where you step when you’re walking inside the tunnel,” the mining guide warns as I board the little train that will carry me and another group of tourists into the deep tunnel under the … [Read More...]
History’s Ghosts in Old Lucknow
by Margaret Deefholts India's history holds many ghosts. It is a land of old loves, ancient hatreds, tarnished dreams and fleeting glory. I am in Lucknow in North India, and I am drawn into a story of extraordinary courage in the face of … [Read More...]
Walking The South China Sea
by Margaret Deefholts I’m standing at the edge of a pontoon, gazing down at the greedy waters of the South China Sea off the shores of Sabah, Borneo, and I’m scared witless. In fact, “witless” is what I must have been to sign on for this escapade … [Read More...]
Riviera Maya Magnetism
by Leslie Jones Ominous clouds pass quickly overhead as torrential rains, thunder and lightening sporadically deliver an impressive show direct from the Mayan Gods. Pristine jungles, intriguing archeological sites and ecological reserves … [Read More...]
Historic Steveston’s Cannery Row
by Irene Butler "He's too short, and too ugly to marry," said Asayo. At first it was thought this "picture bride" was in bad sorts from her long journey from Hiroshima Japan in 1923-but she meant it. As was the practice of the time, … [Read More...]
Beijing With Kids
by Steve Holcroft Arriving in Beijing to a more modern airport than I’d naively expected, I wondered whether we really needed the guide I’d booked over the ‘net two days before. Rebekah’s English was excellent and, but for an unnerving habit of … [Read More...]
Holland’s Anne Frank House
by Lauren Kramer If there's one place that you visit in Amsterdam besides the famous Red Light District, let it be the Anne Frank House. Chances are that you’ve heard of the young girl who was sequestered with her family in the hidden annex of an … [Read More...]
In Aruba, Life’s a Beach
By Barbara Barton Sloane In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth. –Rachel Carson Some people love a parade, some love a rainy night. I love a beach. After a long, hard winter, I … [Read More...]
The Hoover Dam’s Human Touches
The Hoover Dam in terms of human endeavour symbolizes all the best of Depression era America by Dr. Bonnie Devet Tour guides itch only to inform. But their cargo of facts and figures often spurs travelers to seek out what is real, what is human in … [Read More...]