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Travel adventures in fascinating places

Tampa Bay Wildlife Safari

  The giraffe's enormous tongue gently plucked a green leaf from my outstretched hand. "Prehensile," our guide called it. "And about 18-inches long, so it can wrap around branches and strip off leaves." This giraffe, however, didn't have to work so hard. She merely waited for truckloads of … [Read More...]

la posada hotel winsolw az

A Wealth Of Attractions Surround The Historic La Posada Hotel In Winslow, Arizona

With more than a dozen prime tourist destinations nearby, it's no wonder that every Santa Fe passenger train on the route from Chicago to Los Angeles stopped in Winslow Arizona during the golden age of railway travel. To accommodate visitors eager to explore the wild west, in 1929 the Fred Harvey … [Read More...]

Belize howler monkey

Green Luxury in a Belize Rainforest

Was an enormous lion howling outside my thatched cottage? It sounded more like a T-Rex. I might have been worried if I … [Read More...]

Memories of Route 66 still live in St. Louis

It happened more than 60 years ago, when Bobby and Cynthia Troup were driving to California. Bobby was a composer and … [Read More...]

Meekakshi temple Medurai

Blessed by a Sacred Elephant

The Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple in Madurai is one of the largest in South India I had to stretch my neck to look up … [Read More...]

Grand Canyon Railroad Station

Cave Art, Architecture And Ghosts Near The Grand Canyon

We bounced along a deeply-rutted dirt road from the Indian cave with its 3,000 year old petroglyphs and pictographs. We … [Read More...]

Tjapukai dancers on stage

Hidden Treasure in Australian Rainforests

When the first European explorers came to Australia in 1788, they viewed the aboriginal residents as so uncivilized that … [Read More...]

White House Ruin

Sacred Canyons of Arizona

The Four Corners area of the USA (where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet) is rich with ancient … [Read More...]

growing stone in fiji temple

Spirit Stones of Fiji

Why are stones so compelling? From gems and crystals to monoliths and mountains, we’re attracted to stones wherever we … [Read More...]

Aboriginal rock paintings

Aboriginal Magic in the Land of the Quinkans

The oldest rock paintings on Earth are in the Cape York peninsula of Australia's tropical north Queensland. They were … [Read More...]

Machu Picchu

Shamanic Experience at Machu Picchu

Night was falling as we got into the bus to go up to Machu Picchu. Our group of ten, usually talkative and laughing, … [Read More...]

Holy well of St Anne

Holy Wells and Healing Water

To the modern, rational mind, the idea of miraculous cures from holy wells sounds, at best, illogical. But with so many … [Read More...]

Pyramid of the Magician Uxmal Yucatan

Yucatan, Land of the Mayan Rain God

Bats flapped overhead as I made my way deeper into the cave. A rope handrail helped me navigate steep steps. The air got … [Read More...]

Transformed by a Maya Medicine Woman in Belize

The Maya medicine woman smeared a handful of green, aromatic mud onto my forehead, binding it with a strip of cloth, as … [Read More...]

Robert Scheer

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