Archive for the 'Travel' Category

A Time-Honored Gift Children Love

     The gift-giving season is approaching. It can be difficult for absent relatives to remember the last gift they sent to their grandchild, nephew, or niece. A creative way to maintain the gift list and to deepen relationships is to give a book series, one book at a time. That grandchild, nephew, or niece will [...]

Las Vegas Dogs

The attraction to Las Vegas is a rather consistent one. For a few generations, it has been a kind of unofficial center for fun, bringing adults, and children, to the city. There is a lot to enjoy in Las Vegas , with appealing things that are perhaps legendary. The lights from the casinos are just [...]

What to Ask About Visitor Insurance

If you are planning to go overseas anytime in the near future, you need to make sure that purchasing visitors insurance is near the top of your planning list. Few things are more important than your health. When you talk with an insurance agent about travel insurance, you want to make sure that the policy [...]

Harvey Butchart and a Life in the Grand Canyon

The desert southwest is a place that’s known for attracting a wide range of rather interesting individuals. People have been drawn to the area for literally thousands of years, and the one thing they all have in common is a kind of ruggedness of character. It’s not impossible to survive in the desert, but it [...]

Halloween Outside Vancouver

Burnaby Village Museum provides a unique look into British Columbia’s history. Located just 20 minutes from downtown Vancouver, the museum offers exhibits, recreations, and activities that both inform and entertain. This fall, the museum will host Halloween Hysteria October 28-30. The Museum is home to a fully restored 1912 C.W. Parker Carousel . While the [...]

Tampa owes its humble beginnings to Ybor

Tampa’s Native Americans and Seminole War soldiers, to Cuban cigar-rollers and today’s multi-national population, this great city’s cultural makeup has benefited from its rich diversity. Tampa’s stage fare spans a rainbow bridge of complexities from high-brow opera to festive street fairs. Beginning in 1885, when Don Vicente Martinez Ybor, a Cuban cigar factory owner fled [...]

Atlanta has the Best Inexpensive Restaurants for Visitors on a Budget

Atlanta offers several restaurants for tourists who are on a budget. Listed below are only a handful of restaurant that are within walking distance to several budget hotels and a few high-end hotels Atlanta offers its visitors. First on our list is ‘The Varsity’, also known by locals as the Big V. It is located [...]

Miami Digital Libraries

Miami is a city that tries not to sleep, but when it does, it sleeps very deeply, and with a kind of reckless abandon. That’s one of the great things about urban environments with so much night life, and so much beach. The ones who understand the time and place in Miami like to do [...]

Jazz in Honolulu

Honolulu is famous for a lot of things. When it comes to a prime spot for the world’s travelers, its claims to fame are the lovely beaches, the exciting night life in the rich urban center, and the luxury Honolulu hotels that keep people coming back year after year. It’s also got quite a claim [...]

Global Insurance for Students, International Citizens and Other Travelers

Global health insurance is becoming much more popular and well known across the world, and the benefits it provides are perfect for many families and individuals. There are greater options for health insurance coverage and policy structures now than there have been ever before and as the options diversify so do individual preferences. In addition, [...]

Hong Kong Harbour Tours

One of the best sights in the city of Hong Kong is from the harbour. Day or night the harbour gives a spectacular view of the city sky line and the mountain range behind it. It is also a very peaceful journey with only the boat’s motor noise and the wind blowing in your ear. [...]

National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne

Where can one find the oldest and biggest public art museum in Australia? For that, you’ll have to travel to Melbourne, one of the oldest cities in the country, founded in 1835, only 47 years after the European settlement arrived. Originally, the settlement was called “Bearbrass,” but renamed in 1837 to honor William Lamb, who [...]

Portland Folly Bollards

If the spirit of fun and adventure seem particularly high in Portland, it’s not something that’s gone unnoticed to all the citizens of the city. Particularly not the artists, who always seem to have an extra eye into the other dimensions. In cities that have a rather mundane character, artists have a way of looking [...]

August Miami Events

Miami is a sizzling city that never seems to sleep. Whether you’re visiting to see the usual sights with your family or a group of friends or you’re in town for just a fun time on your own. August is an interesting time in Miami; it is the final burst of desperate energy before summer [...]

Las Vegas Grew from Sleepy Desert Community to Wedding Capital of the Country

It does not matter if you are a first time visitor, a seasoned veteran, or a resident; Las Vegas, Nevada has plenty to offer to all. It is the vacation and business destination for an average of about 30 million visitors a year and home to well over 500,000 people. A person has to wonder [...]

Night Clubs in Las Vegas

After a day by the cool pool in the hot sun with pina colada’s, dinner and a popular Vegas show, it is time to take on the night. Save some of that gambling money to hit some of the hottest night clubs in the world. All of the best Vegas hotels have a great night [...]

Fun Times in Murfreesboro

Murfreesboro, Tennessee is home to the ‘Go USA Fun Park’ , located at 2270 Armory Drive. This is family fun at its best, with super-fast go carts, an 18-hole miniature golf course, a driving range to improve your golf swing, video arcade, and a batting cage; all in one place. Go USA Fun Park is [...]

Interesting Museums of Delhi

There are many museums in Delhi some of them are more personal to the local people and traditions. One of the more famous people who spent time in Delhi is Mahatma Gandhi and there are a few ways to see some of the items and stories left behind by this interesting person. You can ask [...]

New York City’s Teacher

Tours are always best done when the person giving the tour not only knows a lot about the area, but also loves the area. This could be no more true than The Street Teacher who offers a number of tours that range from going all over the New York City, to just around a few [...]

Historic and Beautiful Montenegro

Montenegro is one of the gems of Eastern Europe. Since ancient times it has always existed under one name or another that translated to “Black Mountain”. Filled with stunning scenery and several nature reserves and natural history sites there are an endless number of things to see scattered throughout Montenegro. These combine to make Montenegro [...]

Miami Beach is Loaded with Art-Deco

Summer is approaching and there’s no better way to cool off than going to Miami Beach, Florida. There are hundreds of Miami Beach Hotels just waiting to give you the best deals in town and the greatest accommodations. Many of the hotels are located in the Art-Deco Historic District. These vibrant, colorful buildings were built [...]

Capri Boat Tours from Positano

The charm of Positano, Italy, lying in tiers along the mountainside, is immediately apparent. With a choice of at least 32 places to spend the night , you’ll be able to soak in that charm at your leisure, with fantastic views of the town, beaches, and sea. A short distance away, you’ll also find a [...]

Historic Center of Mexico City

Mexico City’s Historic Center is the most popular tourist attraction of this Megalopolis. The Historic Center is the roots of Mexico’s capital, it’s a plaza that occupies the original area with which the Aztecs aligned in accordance to the 4 cardinal points. Later, the Spanish retraced this core area in a checker board pattern, then [...]

Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia

The history that is left for each generation to learn and be expired from in Philadelphia has Benjamin Franklin’s stamp of genius all over it. The more one learns about the man, the scientist and the philosopher the more impressed one becomes. Through out the big city of Philadelphia, visitors can see so many areas [...]

Off the Las Vegas Strip

Pick a hotel, any hotel in Las Vegas and there will be something amazing to see, do and eat. The hotels are the major playground of the city and most people go to Vegas to play in the mainly adult playground. The minute one gets off the plane they notice the bing, bing, bing of [...]

Performing Arts in Minneapolis

When I think of performers that came from Minneapolis the first entertainer that crosses my mind is the major pop star Prince, or what ever he is called now. The city is now booming with even more amazing artists and performances. Prince did help create a buzz in some of the great music clubs in [...]

University of California Los Angeles

It is well known that Los Angeles is the home of the American film industry, which just celebrated the 82nd Annual Academy Awards Ceremony . It is also well known that the Los Angeles area is home to some of the top professionals in the movie business. These two factors are one of the main [...]

Dr Pepper Museum in Waco

Dallas is one of the country’s most interesting cities, and there are millions of visitors every year.  Some come to see friends and family, because it is perhaps one of the friendliest and most amiable places on earth.  Some come here to do business because of Dallas’ thriving industries, where the local charm is merged [...]

Corporeal London

We came to London with the idea that we might see ghosts, but instead, we left completely enchanted.  This had nothing to do with our own personal charms, but only due to the lovely ambiance at our hotel.  London is a great place to be if you’re with the one you love.  It’s also a [...]

Too Much Snow in Seattle Can be a Good Thing

We’ve hunkered down to ride out this extremely uncharacteristic winter weather in Seattle. We’ve been here for a week, staying almost exclusively in our luxury hotel in Seattle. We needed to get out, and it looked like it was finally letting up for the weekend. Who would’ve thought that we were actually looking forward to [...]