Christmas in the City of Lights
Paris is a most magical place. There are always new sights. There are always stories. On this trip, we were with friends with small children, ...
Holiday Travel: Places to Visit this Season
A Christmas Tour Of France
France may be a deeply secular nation, but everyone gets in the spirit of what are called “the end of the year holidays” (les fêtes ...
Off the Beaten Path: Holiday Escapes in Puerto Rico
My SCUBA diver instructor Captain Cachi checks my gear one last time, and we start slowly descending into the waves of La Parguera Bay in Puerto Rico. This ...
Rocket City Holiday Magic – Huntsville, Alabama
Huntsville, Alabama is known as The Rocket City for helping put mankind on the Moon along with its continuing role in developing the propulsion system to return humankind to ...
Continuing a Family Tradition at Longwood Gardens
As my husband and I started our family many years ago, we melded the traditions that we had each gown up with and established our ...
Captive by COVID for the Holidays
With coronavirus cases in the US exploding at an astonishing rate, the answer to “how will I spend the holidays” is currently unknown. I live in the ...
Kokopelli Cave Experience: The Anasazi Never Had It So Good!
I’ve stayed in a number of interesting places over the years, including an ice hotel, a treehouse, a yurt and even an Earthship. But, I think the most unique accommodations to date has to be a cave.
Santa Claus, Indiana – A Place For Holiday Magic
If there is any place that offers a bit of holiday inspiration, it is Santa Claus, Indiana. s we grow older, we sometimes can get ...
To Thanksgiving or Not to Thanksgiving, That is the Dilemma
Thanksgiving this year is like no other. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade is virtual. Our gatherings are small. And maybe there won’t be any gatherings ...
Winter Is Coming: Game Of Thrones Iceland Locations
“Winter is coming. We know what’s coming with it.” Jon Snow, Game of Thrones Snow transforms Iceland’s landscapes, and not just in the winter months. ...
Christmas Cheer in New York
As I sit here in my New York City apartment and write this on November 9th of 2020, I don’t have clear holiday plans this year. ...
Christmas Crafts from the Village of Lauscha
The age-old art of handmade, glass-blown, and paper mache Christmas ornaments lives on in the village of Lauscha, in Germany’s ancient Thuringian Forest. One of ...
A Festival of Lights in Riverside, California
The city of Riverside, California, nestles along the Santa Ana River. A large metro area, Riverside is situated 50 miles south of Los Angeles in ...
An Ozark Mountain Christmas in Branson, Missouri
The hills are alive with the sights and sounds of Christmas. Welcome to an Ozark Mountain Christmas in Branson, Missouri.
Historic Holiday Destinations
Ever want to step back in time and experience a taste of yesteryear and an old fashioned holiday from a bygone era? or those travelers ...
Winter Wellness and Adventure in Costa Rica
Once a year go someplace you’ve never been before. Dalai Lama I took this advice and went someplace new, which was also a bucket list ...
The Joys of Christmas on California’s Central Coast, from Santa Barbara to Los Olivos
After experiencing 2020, a year I never imagined and will never forget, I am happily reflecting on my pleasant and vivid memories of my last Christmas on California’s Central Coast. I spent the Christmas ...
What’s Most Important for the Holidays?
My family’s ghosts of Christmases past would fill a barnyard. I suspect that hovering around the homestead still are the spirits of many, many animals that became ...
Ideas for your next trip
Zion’s Tiny Oasis
The global pandemic has left me altered. I once sped through excursions, booking trips within trips with an aim to tick as many items as ...
The Other Easy: North Louisiana’s Art Community
e’d heard about the cultural delights of Northern Louisiana—engaging art, accessible artistic communities, great food and elemental American music–but we’d never taken time to visit. ...
Daffodils Welcome Springtime in Nantucket
Isolated off the coast of Cape Cod, shades of yellow blanket a small island 36 miles out to sea. More than three million Narcissuses have been planted throughout the 48 square miles of what many consider to be one of the most beautiful islands in North America. The annual Nantucket Daffodil Festival is a bright and uplifting harbinger of spring.
Springtime in the Rockies
The best thing about springtime in the Rockies of Colorado is that it lasts four months. That’s because altitude plays such an important role when plants and wildflowers come out.
Day Trip to Santa Barbara and Beyond
Living in West Los Angeles, there is nothing like a day trip up the coast to Santa Barbara and beyond, especially when you feel the ...
Finding the Sea of Cortez
The appetite for excitement, interesting marine life, and unusual photo opportunities has greatly intensified within the scuba industry. Adventuresome dive travelers eagerly seek out remote, exotic destinations world-wide.
Visiting the Marquesas on the Aranui 5
When most people think of visiting French Polynesia, the first places that come to mind are Tahiti, Moorea and Bora Bora and in fact that ...
Houseboating on Lake Powell
The car came to a stop throwing up dust on the dirt parking lot. It had been a 10-hour drive from San Diego and I ...
Trade Organizations: The Benefits are Amazing
Last spring I attended my fourth NATJA conference, and it rocked. We partied at the Puerto Vallarta beaches and drank an untold amount of tequila. ...
Mother Nature’s Lifecycle at Marlette Lake, Through a Hiker’s Eyes
Autumn has such a distinct scent. You know it when you smell it. All along the trail to Marlette Lake on the East Shore of ...
Road Tripping with Rod Serling Across the San Luis Valley
Many Twilight Zone episodes feature a road trip gone strange. A couple are driving along, make a turn and find themselves (as Rod Serling put it so ...
5 Unexpected Reasons to Visit Puerto Vallarta
For most baby boomers, the mention of Puerto Vallarta conjures up images of Captain Stubing and Julie, the Cruise Director, on “The Love Boat.” The classic TV show, of which we all have fond memories, ran from 1977 to 1987, and made the destination a household name.
