The night was still, the sky fast asleep, and the stars the only other things awake. My friend Jordan and I left the handful of people not sleeping and venture out into the silent desert. We are staying in a Bedouin-like campsite in Wadi Rum, a 720 square metre desert in southern Jordan that...
I was as excited as Carrie Bradshaw and Samantha Jones in Sex & the City to board my overnight train. Although, my expectations were much different than their “Some Like It Hot” romantic vision. I knew that the showers spray from over the toilet seat and that bunk beds pull out from the benches,...
“Do you realize this is the fourth day in a row we have put on a crash helmet?” asks one of my travel companions, travel writer Carol Perehudoff, to no one in particular. This is day four of our outdoor adventure introduction sponsored by the Wales Tourist Board. I do realize it. We’ve already...
“3-2-1-go!” cheers on Jamie, one of the three-man team from Call of the Wild who were in charge of taking four travel writers and convincing them to jump into a 2°C river. Yes, it took a team of three… I had warmed up my wetsuit on the five-minute walk from the van to Afon-Mellte...
I took a moment, with my body cuddling the rock face and my fingers clinging to two crevices 90 feet above the ground, to look at the view on my right: a twinkling Atlantic Ocean lapped along the Gower Coast in south western Wales that stretched as far as I could see. The warm...
Travelling to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games is an expensive trip, from accommodations and tickets to Cultural Olympiad shows. But there are some fantastic free events happening, too, and one of the best is the initiative Ziptrek Ecotours has taken. This Whistler-based company runs the Whistler, BC zip line (and one in Queenstown, New...
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