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Portugal’s isle of Madeira boasts a profusion of blooms and a bounty of its namesake wine

Features, October 2007 issue ⋅ 2 comments
Portugal’s isle of Madeira boasts a profusion of blooms and a bounty of its namesake wine
by Harvey Hagman, Fort Myers, FL After spending the winter of 1419 on the barren, white sands of the island of Porto Santo, Portuguese explorer João Gonçalves Zarco set sail for the mist-shrouded land on the horizon. Zarco found an island of towering peaks and thick, ancient woods — madeira means “wood” — with rugged, cliff-lined [...]

Cones, caves, and capstones — Cappadocia plus more in Turkey

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Cones, caves, and capstones — Cappadocia plus more in Turkey
by David Tykol, Editor Our bus parked at the lip of the valley and everyone gasped. Looking out at a landscape of bleached-tan earth nearly devoid of green grass or vegetation, we saw hundreds of giant cones and pillars — like 3-story-tall termite mounds tinged in yellows and reds — that seemed to be piercing through [...]

Antarctica — unimaginable beauty

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Antarctica — unimaginable beauty
by Debi Shank, ITN After a full day at sea, I woke up, peered through the window of my cabin and had my first sighting of Antarctica. The months of anticipation were over as we sailed past Deception Island and began our 5-day voyage through the South Shetland Islands and down the Antarctic Peninsula. The first distinct [...]

Colombia, Paraguay, and Uruguay — three surprising South American destinations

Features, August 2007 issue ⋅ Post a comment
by Sandra Scott, Mexico, NY To escape northern New York’s winters, my husband, John, and I spend three months of each year someplace warmer. In 2007, our “winter getaway” was South America. While we had been to South America several times, during this trip we found some pleasant surprises. The new Colombia If ever a country needed a P.R. [...]

Biking through Hungary

Features, August 2007 issue ⋅ Post a comment
by Jim Hendrickson, Bellingham, WA In late July and early August ’06, I took a one-week bicycle tour of the puszta (great plain) in eastern Hungary. Called “Spa Route Through the Puszta,” it included seven nights in mostly 3-star hotels; delicious buffet breakfasts and Hungarian dinners daily; the rental of a 21-speed bicycle; two English-speaking tour [...]

Australia & New Zealand: “Blogging” our way through a trip Down Under

Features, August 2007 issue ⋅ One comment
Australia & New Zealand: “Blogging” our way through a trip Down Under
by Jennifer Petoff, San Francisco, CA My husband, Scott, and I recently moved from Philadelphia to San Francisco to pursue a new job opportunity. In the process of relocating, we were able to carve out time for a month-long trip to Australia and New Zealand in March ’07. The trip represented the perfect opportunity to put [...]

England’s beautiful southern coast plus the Isle of Wight

Features, August 2007 issue ⋅ Post a comment
by June Griffin, Lewiston, ME England’s southern coast along the channel, especially East and West Sussex, is a beautiful place to visit. In May ’06 I had a wonderful stay there in beautiful weather. The temperature was in the 70s, and from London south people were enjoying sunshine and no rain. While the newspapers reported a [...]

A 23-day exploration of Ethiopia

Features, August 2007 issue ⋅ Post a comment
by Yvonne Horn, Santa Rosa, CA Nothingness stretched seemingly forever as viewed from my window seat aboard the Ethiopian Airlines Fokker 500 turboprop en route to Bahir Dar from the country’s capital city of Addis Ababa. Nothingness, that is, if one discounts the ferocious landscape of deep canyons and jagged tumbled mountains unfolding below and the [...]

Exploring big, beautiful Brazil

Features, July 2007 issue ⋅ Post a comment
by Emilee Hines, Hendersonville, NC I fell in love with Brazil before we left the airport at Rio de Janeiro. It was mid-January, a bleak time in most of America, but in Rio fields were lush and green and trees were blooming along the streets. Cariocas, as residents of Rio call themselves, strolled the mosaic sidewalks in [...]

Looking for luxury in Vietnam, Thailand, & Bali

Features, July 2007 issue ⋅ Post a comment
by Bill Kizorek, Lisle, IL International travel: the phrase conjures up visions of adventure and exploration. There are so many ways to go about it. When I am by myself, I don’t care if I sleep in a tent in Botswana with hippos grunting through the canvas or eat breakfast at a camp table across from [...]

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