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By Roger Allnutt For many Europeans Crete is one of the Greek islands that they flock to in droves to relax in the sunshine at one of the many resorts that line the north coast of the 150-mile-long island. Large…
Colourful flowers against wall of Prevelli monastery on the Greek Island of Crete
By Ariel Johns Nestled on the Yucatán Peninsula and bordering the Caribbean Sea, Cancún, Mexico has long been known for its food, rich history and luxurious beach front resorts. For one week, I had the pleasure of calling this oasis,…
By Roger Allnutt Five mallard ducks almost upstaged Elvis on my recent visit to Memphis About 80 years ago the manager of the fashionable and very stately Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis introduced a ‘show’ where some ducks paraded out…
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By Joann Deutch [Read Part I of An Antarctic Adventure series here.] Antarctica, the 7th continent, is a land mass the size of Europe and the United States combined, an improbable desert beneath ice, and inaccessible outside a small window…
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The m/v Sea Spirit on a voyage to Antarctica Photo courtesy of Poseidon Expeditions
By George Christopher Thomas Just a few miles from downtown Los Angeles is the Auto Speedway in Fontana. Besides hosting Indy Car and NASCAR events, every weekend Exotics Racing allows you to take top-of-the-line sports cars out on a real racetrack. You get to…
Families Belong Together, an organization calling for the immediate reform of the Trump administration’s family separation policy, has declared this Saturday, June 30 as a national day of action. Rallies will take place across California from Alameda to Yucca Valley,…
By Roger Allnutt Stretching about 1,500 miles along the coast of Queensland, the Great Barrier Reef (there are in fact about 2,900 individual reefs, 300 coral cays and 900 islands) is one of Australia’s premier tourist icons and a ‘must…
Pontoon at Agincourt Reef, part of Queensland, Australia's Great Barrier Reef
By Stephen Cooper In mid-July, when summer’s heat sears L.A., Angelenos and savvy outsiders know the best, most refreshing, rejuvenating thing to do is to go to Reggae on the Mountain. Aptly dubbed by L.A. Weekly as “L.A.’s best reggae…
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Main stage at Reggae on the Mountain in Topanga Canyon, California by Stephen A. Cooper
San Francisco Pride will take place this weekend, Saturday, June 24th and Sunday, June 25th. Approximately one million people are expected to head to San Francisco in the lead up to the weekend, which over its 48-year history has grown…
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By Jon Bogart Palm Springs is in the midst of a major renovation that will transform the city into a cutting-edge capital of shopping, dining, recreation, art appreciation and, of course, golf. Palm Springs has always been known as the…
By Roger Allnutt In August 1896, prospectors in the northern Yukon region of northwestern Canada, close to the Arctic Circle, discovered large deposits of gold on the Rabbit River. The tributary of the Yukon River would later be named Bonanza…
A Dawson City, Yukon, streetscape (Photo by Roger Allnutt)
By Joann Deutch It’s been my dream to get to the Antarctic for several years now. I was bowled over by my trip to Tromso, a city above the Arctic Circle in Norway, and it only made sense to me…
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The tiny airport of Ushuaia, Argentina