There are plenty of things to do in Guanajuato, the city that has been my adopted home on and off for more than a decade. You can sit in one of the many plazas (and have a drink in some), wander the pedestrian-only alleyways, catch a cultural performance, or even take a street food tour….
When people started looking for options to travel safely in the USA when the travel restrictions got rolling, a whole lot of them turned to road trips and camping. As a result, some people found the opposite of what they were hoping when they entered the parking lots and full campgrounds at our nation’s famous…
The readers of this blog are travelers and adventurers who enjoy the outdoors. So I know you probably buy a healthy amount of travel apparel, outdoor clothing, and luggage. If you are starting to pay attention to international shipping and its impact on our ever-hotter climate though, how can you help your fellow countrymen…
As I write this, Europe is opening up to vaccinated travelers after a long tourism drought, so I thought it would be time to highlight one of the best values on the continent that doesn’t get all that many vacationing visitors: Slovakia. The country has been in the last two editions of my book The…
The Discovery Cabin at SunLund By-the-Sea on BC’s Sunshine Coast The Sunshine Coast Trail is Canada’s longest hut-to-hut trail, a 112-mile (180-kilometer) route through British Columbia’s coastal rainforest north of Vancouver. But when I decided to hike a few days of this trail with my daughter and her partner, I wanted to sleep indoors, not…
Are you heading to South Africa soon? Is your overseas flight arriving late at Johannesburg Airport in South Africa? Maybe you are connecting with a domestic or another African flight the next day? If so, consider staying at City Lodge at OR Tambo International Airport for both convenience and value. Not only will you save…
Other than reading or meditating, few things are more fun without a group of friends or family… especially when that group is working towards a greater good together. That’s the idea the folks at Organic Soul promote, encouraging communities to get together to go green. And we don’t mean just organizing an organic tea party with…
Here’s some advice you don’t hear very often in the travel world: when you fly into the country, bring as much cash as you can, preferably in $100 bills or €100 notes. That’s because we’re talking about the strategy to visit Argentina, where your money is worth more in cash than if you use a…
Icelandair allows transatlantic travelers to book a stopover in Iceland for one to seven days for no additional airfare. My husband and I took advantage of this offering after a month-long trip to Ireland and the UK. We flew from London’s Heathrow to Denver International Airport, with an overnight layover at Keflavik International Airport. We…
What if we told you that a single ingredient contained in many of your favorite foods– palm oil– is wiping out rainforests all around the world, from Palawan, Philippines to the Brazilian Amazon? What if we told you that palm oil products are killing endangered species (orangutans being the most famous example) and destroying the livelihood of indigenous tribes? Would…
