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Hiking Mordor, New Zealand’s Tongariro Alpine Crossing
I have a mix of fear and respect for volcanoes. They are imposing, difficult to climb, and can erupt with little warning. However, when my husband and I visited New Zealand, our friends strongly...
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Tracing the Footsteps of the Mayans
When it comes to choosing a vacation destination, I am inevitably drawn to places filled with history, culture, and beauty. I have seen the gladiators’ arena in the Coliseum in Rome; I stood where the...
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Gators and Birds in Florida’s River of Grass: Touring the Everglades
“There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them…” These opening...
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Lanzarote, Canary Islands: Where Art Meets Nature
The island of Lanzarote, part of Spain’s Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa, is for many European budget tourists synonymous with cookie cutter resort towns and all-inclusive holiday packages....
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Rhodes: Island of the Knights
Rhodes is probably best known as the island that was once home to the Colossus of Rhodes, a 98-foot-high statue of the Greek god Helios and one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Today, the tallest...
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The Sky’s the Limit in Quito, Ecuador
Despite the lure of the beaches of Rio de Janeiro, the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, and the tango flair of Buenos Aires, my inaugural trip to South America led me to Quito, the capital of Ecuador and...
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Taking It Slow in the Algarve, Portugal
The Algarve’s natural and cultural diversity is undoubtedly one of its greatest riches. Visitors to this southern region of Portugal can easily pass through different environments within the same...
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Walking in the Clouds in Costa Rica
The creature on the side of the road looked like a mixture between a monkey, an anteater, and a raccoon, and it was certainly something I had never seen before. I frantically parked the rental car,...
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Under Seville’s Sunny Skies
Some like it hot, especially after a long, cold North American winter, and so the idea of spending a summer vacation in Andalusia, Spain, was an easy sell to me. Seville, the region’s capital, was high...
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A Memorable Weekend in The Bahamas
What struck me first about The Bahamas was the friendliness of its people. Arriving in Nassau on New Providence Island with my husband, we were greeted in the airport arrivals hall by a local band...
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Lindau and St. Gallen: A Tale of Two Cities in Two Countries
Lindau Lindau might not be well known to people living outside of Europe, but in Germany it is quite a tourist attraction and had been on my travel bucket list for years. The exceptionally...
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Paradise Found on Isabela Island
When the speedboat reached the port of Isabela Island, the largest of the Galapagos Islands off Ecuador, an inner peace came over me. As the captain slowly maneuvered the boat, I saw an endless...
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