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Part 1: Travel Tips: Emergency Situations

Part 1: Travel Tips: Emergency Situations

Part 1: Travel Tips: Emergency Situations By Jeannette and Dan Dudek Emergency Preparation for Staying or Evacuating An evacuation order requires you to immediately travel; are you prepared for doing so? Recently Hurricane Sandy devastated the northeast United States, causing as much as $60 Billion dollars in damage; plus the loss of lives of at […]

Travel Tips: Safety and Emergency Situations

Travel Tips: Safety and Emergency Situations

Travel Tips: Safety and Emergency Situations By Jeannette and Dan Dudek At any time, at any place, nature or a series of mistakes can cause an unpredictable situation that can dramatically affect you and your loved ones. You need to be prepared! The articles in this series cover the basics that you must be aware […]

Travel India: A Love Triangle – India’s Golden Triangle in 7 Days

Travel India: A Love Triangle – India’s Golden Triangle in 7 Days

Travel India: A Love Triangle – India’s Golden Triangle in 7 Days By Cherie Thiessen, Photos by David Dossor When you visit India, whether for a day or a year, the first thing you have to do is shake the moths out of the way you think. Everything needs to be re-defined, and isn’t that […]

Travel Tips: Volunteering with Acacia Africa

Travel Tips: Volunteering with Acacia Africa

Travel Tips: Volunteering with Acacia Africa As I’ve traveled the world during these last two years, I’ve come to appreciate the wonders of our physical world – stunning landscapes, encounters with exotic animals and brilliant architecture. But what I’ve come to value the most is the opportunity to engage with indigenous cultures and local communities. […]

Discovering Ephesus in Turkey

Discovering Ephesus in Turkey

Discovering Ephesus in Turkey By Vikki Gibson We were picked up at 4:15 a.m. by Mr. Emit of Euphrates Tours for our trip to the airport. An early morning flight on Pegasus Air from Kayseri to Izmir was the start of the next phase of our exploration of Turkey’s great treasures. We were relocating to […]

An English Thanksgiving

An English Thanksgiving

  An English Thanksgiving by Anna Mansager “Come to Exeter and we’ll have an English Thanksgiving.” These were the last words of an email I received one November weekend from my best friend, Emily, while studying in York, England. I had been happily ensconced in the walled campus of York St. John University for the […]

Travel Tips: RVing and Firearms

Travel Tips: RVing and Firearms

Travel Tips: RVing and Firearms You carry a fire extinguisher to stop a fire; so consider a hand gun to stop an invasion. By Jeannette and Dan Dudek In the U.S. there is much confusion about individuals carrying firearms. If you plan on traveling in North America in a Recreational Vehicle (RV), you should understand […]

Exploring Historic Central Anatolia

Exploring Historic Central Anatolia

Exploring Historic Central Anatolia By Vikki Gibson Our Euprates Tour van and guide, Ramzan, were at our beck and call on the second day of our tour. Ramzan had an itinerary that lay the history and terrain of central Anatolia before us. We continued exploring ancient caves and their remarkable and unbelievable paintings; dwellings engineered from […]

Hot Air Ballooning Over Cappadocia in Turkey

Hot Air Ballooning Over Cappadocia in Turkey

Hot Air Ballooning Over Cappadocia in Turkey By Vikki Gibson Ring! Ring! It’s our 3:45 a.m. wake-up call. When I open my eyes I don’t know that they are open. It’s pitch-black! Panic! Why can’t I see? Then I remember, I’m in a cave; a beautiful Turkish cave. Time to get up. The balloon company will pick us up at […]

Explore Turkey: Goreme Valley

Explore Turkey: Goreme Valley

Explore Turkey: Goreme Valley  By Vikki Gibson So, after forty-three years, I have  crossed “see underground cave city” off of my proverbial “bucket list”. I finally made it back to Turkey! It was 1969 and I was hitch-hiking around Europe carrying a back-breaking, hip-hugging, German army surplus backpack and eating from the right side of the menu. […]

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