Drum rolllllllll, please! We’d like to announce the beta launch of Travel Favorites, a new tool that will help you go beyond the basic guidebook recommendations to have the most memorable trips around. Get tips for don’t-miss destinations and activities, share your own secret spots and join the conversation. The skinny: Travel favorites are places,…

It’s been way too long since I’ve spent quality time in Winter Park and the Fraser Valley, though it’s just 3 hours from my Colorado mountain home (and only 65 miles west of Denver). I have fond memories of a Memorial Day Weekend about five years ago at Snow Mountain Ranch/YMCA of the Rockies, where[Read more]

Founded in the mid 1500’s, Helsinki has been appropriately nicknamed the “Daughter of the Baltic” and was named the capital city in 1812. The Russian czar again built the city to resemble St. Petersburg. A cosmopolitan city that still retains the ol…

The Canary Islands have a lot more to offer than the typical year-round package holiday which you may immediately think of when Tenerife and Lanzarote are mentioned. In reality, the seven islands offer, to name but a few, active volcanoes, unspoiled ba…

Bryan and Dena Haines sold their ad agency, their home and everything they owned that wouldn’t fit in a few bags of luggage and moved their young family to Cuenca, Ecuador (not to be confused with its namesake in Spain). Check out the Haines’ insider’s guide to this undersung highlands gem before you plan your…

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Cram some plutonium into your flux capacitators, kids, because today’s WTF Wednesday is going to require some serious time travel. (But please, don’t steal said plutonium and get yourself shot in the process, leaving your youthful friend Marty to hop into your time machine, consequently causing a whole bunch mischief that leads him to make [...]

Good day, Just finished two days in Kruger National Park, South Africa doing safari and was lucky enough to see ALL of the “BIG 5” in the wild. We went on four game drives total and had seen the entire group by the end of our second one. Considering I saw near none of them [...]

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