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Help Me Decide Where to Travel Next

Last week I won a $100 travel voucher with Expedition Trips. That isn’t a lot of money considering the cost of some of ET’s trips – they are fantastic locales that are not easily accessible, so they tend to be a little more expensive – but I feel inspired to use it and explore some […]

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An Old Town Treat in Prague

A great treat in Old Town Prague is the freshly baked and glazed bread found in the winding maze of streets.

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Down the Nile

When the Borders stores closed about a year ago, I picked up every last travel book I could find. The sales were too good to ignore. One of the books I grabbed was Rosemary Mahoney’s Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff, which wasn’t quite what I had originally expected. Down the Nile is […]

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Hiking Through Haleakala’s Bamboo Forest

I stood at a crossroads near the end of hiking by the Oheo Gulch on my way to the Waimoku Falls. On one hand, I would be risking almost certain death. But on the other I would be able to stand beneath the largest waterfall on Maui, admiring the spectacle as it dropped approximately 400 […]

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Whale Watching on Molokai

My best photo from my whale watching trip on Molokai, Hawaii.

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Driving the Road to Hana

The Road to Hana clings to the side of the Haleakala volcano, skirting Maui’s northern shore for over forty miles from the small town of Paia to Hana. It is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful drives in the world. It is one of Maui’s main tourist attractions – as much […]

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