Category: Travel – General

My “Bucket List” is a lengthy one, but one that I’m chipping away at. From Antarctica and Greenland to Bora Bora and the Great Barrier Reef, I want to see and experience “everything”! Last year’s highlights from my list were snorkeling with turtles at Bridgetown, Barbados, and scuba diving...

I’m always on the lookout for articles about, and photos of, great beaches – and there are lots. Condé Nast Traveler has just posted “Great Beaches of the World: Italy” so it looked like a good way to start this snowy day off. The first thing I checked out...

With the days getting shorter and the snow getting deeper by the minute, Cathy and I are both doing some serious shopping for a trip. Our budget is very unlikely to permit a winter getaway this year, but if not, a major one to celebrate my 60th birthday next...

As Steve and I were starting down the WP&YR tracks after taking the Bare Loon Lake cutoff trail from the Chilkoot Trail on Tuesday, we met an Aussie fellow on a Great Adventure. Dan Grec is a few weeks into a 50,000-km drive from the Arctic Ocean at Prudhoe...

Today, for the first time in many years, I’m going to work in an office doing a 9-5. Instead of sitting at home dreaming about and planning trips for Cathy and I, I’ll be planning cruises and other trips for other people 🙂 The new Expedia CruiseShipCenters office in...

To all my friends who send me ‘best wishes’, chain letters, ‘angel’ letters or other promises of good luck if I forward something, NONE OF THAT SHIT IS WORKING! Could you please just send money, alcohol, chocolate or gasoline vouchers? (hint – I really like single-malt Scotch) 🙂 Actually,...

I was doing so well after a good day yesterday, then on this cold rainy morning I got an email from Westjet. Among the offerings in their current seat sale is Calgary to Phoenix for $94 one way. With an Air North to Calgary and back for about $440,...

Do you remember having to write that essay at the start of every school year? Well, this graphic just about sums up my summer vacation this year!...

The Washington Post is running an interesting poll [now gone] on what readers consider to be the best travel innovation of the last decade. The leader by far at this point is suitcases with wheels, which is what I chose. But there are a lot of great choices. For...