Yellowstone Hiking Map
TICKS Related to scorpions and spiders, ticks live in damp, vegetative conditions (woodlands, bracken and long grass) particularly where sheep and deer are found. Latching on to passing flesh, …
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Travel Experience
Travel Experience As a casual weekend hiker would you enter an Ironman contest with a veteran Ironman contestant? Probably not. Why? Because your goals, experience, conditioning, and approach are …
Is That the Asia You’ve Been Taught to Expect?
Is That the Asia You’ve Been Taught to Expect? So, have I learned my lesson? I sure hope so. Once again the myths that I’d been fed and consumed …
Travel Language Barriers
Travel Language Barriers Another common myth I run into is that virtually no one in S.E.A. speaks English and that it’ll be difficult to navigate and get things done. …
Racism in Travel
Racism in Travel When I first penned a blog post on the racial realizations outlined in this chapter, I was concerned about how it would be received. Writing on …
Boulder Hiking Map
BITERS The great outdoors is a dangerous place, and the bluffer should be aware of this. Sometimes the countryside doesn’t like you traipsing all over it, and it bites …
Everyone is Trying to Con You Travel
Everyone is Trying to Con You Travel Based on everything I had heard, a major part of me expected to get home exhausted at the end of every day …
Santorini Attractions Map
GUIDE TO THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE AT AKROTIRI The excavations conducted at Akrotiri to date have laid bare only part of the prehistoric town, which seems to have extended much …
You’re a Minority Somewhere Travel
You’re a Minority Somewhere Travel I can still remember vividly the first time my brother, who had by that point spent more than a year in Zambia with the …
Where Is Burma Located On A Map
Back at the hotel I rested for the remainder of the day. I had paid for a late checkout at six. I was preparing for my train ride, expecting …