National Geographic named Valparaiso one of the top ten cities to visit in 2013. It also earned the status of a UNESCO World Heritage site a decade ago, in 2003. So, my friend Nannette and I traveled 90 minutes from Santiago to see what all the fuss was about. The busy port city of […]
An appropriate name for this steaming mountain! This guy looks like he’ll surely disappear into the crevices of this volcanic landscape, doesn’t he? But he didn’t. He was just hiking, along with maybe 30-40 others, who were all scattered across this steamy mountainside of Kerlingarfjoll, or Witch Mountain, located deep in the Interior. The entire […]
Slovakia is one of the top ten destinations to visit in 2013 according to Lonely Planet. Although it is recommended for its folk culture, hiking and skiing are by far the biggest draws. Which is what drew me in. I wanted to find a place to hike mega miles to celebrate a mega birthday, and this small group hiking […]
According to Lonely Planet, Sri Lanka is #1 of the top ten countries to visit in 2013. Having visited in the fall of 2011, I heartily agree! The country is on the fast track to mending and welcoming tourists back now that their 30 year civil war is over and the destruction from the 2004 tsunami has […]
The Great Wall of China. Just uttering those words conjures up images of that long fortified wall snaking up and over forested hills—stretching an incredible 5,000 km across the northern reaches of China’s vast country. I had wanted to see it, walk on it, experience it, for a very long time. And now I was […]
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