Beaches and Islands

by Larry Taylor, Fullerton, CA

by Brita Bishop, Dallas, TX

by Harvey Hagman, Fort Myers, FL

Tahiti’s jagged gray peaks pierced the opalescent dawn, the foaming white surf roaring and streaking along the sheltering reef, the surge coming to rest in a heart-stopping turquoise lagoon lined by a white-sand beach.

by Wayne Wirtanen, (Part 1 of 3 on The Gambia and the Cape Verde Islands, jump to

by M. Lewis Stein, Irvine, CA

As we crossed the border from Turkey into Bulgaria, our guide, Borut Sraj, a 55-year-old Slovenian who wore a tiny flute around his neck to alert laggards when the bus was leaving, advised us, “The country may or may not work for you, but take it as it comes.”

by John Hale, Palo Alto, CA

Welcome to the Sepik. Please set your watches back 900 years.

Greg Stathakis, a retired Santa Barbara high school teacher, has led groups to Papua New Guinea for each of the past 28 years. My older son, Billy, and I joined him in May ’07 for the trip of a lifetime.

by Bill Altaffer, Mammoth Lakes, CA

My wife, Dee, and I and another couple flew via military aircraft (I am retired military) from Florida to Crete in April ’07. Aside from our initial accommodations on the base, we had no previous reservations but relied on what we could book onsite. Dee’s Fodor’s guidebook gave us ideas about where we should go.

by John Penisten, Hilo, HI