Estacada Carter Bridge Day Use Area, 17 miles southeast of Estacada on SR 224 Late May www.upperclackamasfestival.org Launched, so to speak, in 1984 by the Northwest Rafter’s Association, the …
Craft beer is growing rapidly and in exciting ways in South Africa. There are two must-visit breweries in Cape Town: Devil’s Peak Brewing Company (95 Durham Avenue, Salt River, …
Kabul, Afghanistan Afghanistanism From Bukhara we head due south, over the Hindu Kush and the fringes of the Himalayas, and on to Afghanistan. At first glance, it might not …
Cayenne, French Guiana We now head to French Guiana, two thousand miles north of Rio de Janeiro, an overseas territory of France roughly the same size as Austria, on …
Local Thais make around 10,000 baht a month ($333US) which is why it’s very rare to see a Thai with their own room. The jobs that you could likely …
Portland The Fields Neighborhood Park, 1099 NW Overton Street First weekend in July www.portlandcraftbeerfestival.com Portland, as well as Oregon in general, not to mention the entire Northwest, and for …
Toronto, Canada Toronto blessing cross Lake Ontario from New York state is the city of Toronto in Canada. We might have been dealing with a lot of Old and …
One of the nice things about Thailand is that their unemployment rate is virtually nonexistent. The reason is because it’s so easy for anyone to start a business; you …
Hamilton, Bermuda Bermuda A thousand miles northeast of Cuba, and around nine hundred miles from the coast of North America, is the island of Bermuda in the north Atlantic …
Colombo, Sri Lanka From the Indian mainland, we cross to the island of Sri Lanka, just off the southernmost tip of Central Asia. Sri Lanka is roughly the same …