This was a day that wasn’t supposed to happen. Today, I was meant to take the train from my base in Genoa to the town of Santa Margharita Ligure, a coastal city best known as the place one catches the bus to the luxury mecca of Portofino. I was going to remain in Santa Margharita…
There is no question that Cabo San Lucas, the southernmost point on the Baja California peninsula, is beautiful. The turquoise of the water here could be mistaken for the Caribbean, though it comes with reasonable surf at this point, where the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortez meet. Mountains surround the town, with low…
Editor’s note: Who doesn’t like a good volcano, right? For visitors to California, Lassen Volcanic National Park is off the beaten path, but just as awesome as any place this side of Yosemite. Like our resident geology buff Morgan, I love this gem of a park and recommend it to everyone I know! For more…
When my trip to Mexico was planned, and Puerto Vallarta included on the itinerary, this is the experience I knew for sure I wanted to have. In fact, if I did nothing else but relax on the beach for a week and get to participate in a baby turtle release, it would be a week…
Grayson isn’t the type of friend I normally make when I travel. For one thing, while I enthusiastically count Grayson among my friends, he doesn’t even know I exist. For another, Grayson looks a bit different than most of my friends. Grayson is a harpy eagle, and he is one of the ambassador birds at…
Editor’s note: my experience with Switzerland is fairly limited, with a couple days spent in a couple towns on a bus tour when I was a child, and two nights just outside of Liechtenstein when I wrote about that tiny country. I’ve been largely put off by the cost, but in reading this piece by…
Not too many of America’s national parks occupy a place like this, just outside of a major metropolitan area. But here, just a half hour from downtown Cleveland, and - in some places - mere feet off of interstate freeways, sits an oasis easily reachable by day trippers. Hiking, bird watching, and one of the…
Editor’s note: reading all of Morgan’s descriptions of the Azores has been a surprising experience for me. They all seem so different, and all seem so cool! To read about these, and all of her adventures, make sure to click here to visit her index page. I’ve visited 5 out of the 9 Açores (Anglicized…
Sometimes, a day just seems to work out. Here I was, armed with a Toronto VIP Pass from Destination Toronto, with a free day downtown before meeting family to attend the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. (As a total aside, the concert and venue were both wonderful.) What to do? I gazed through the list of activities…
Editor’s note: if you poll people who are well traveled on what their favorite places in the world are, Cape Town is at the top of many lists. Personally, I have never been. But reading this account from San Spector, adding it to the countless other glowing things about it and the country as a…