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Discovering Vietnam – Ho Chi Minh City II – Saigon

Discovering Vietnam – Ho Chi Minh City II – Saigon

Discovering Vietnam – Ho Chi Minh City II – Saigon By Jean Wethmar We continue our visit in Saigon today, with shopping, food information, and hotels. A girl can’t live on Colonial Architecture alone now can she? Last time we looked at the French buildings. Today, we take a stroll down Dong Khoi Street, its […]

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. […]

Phoenix, Arizona Insider Travel Tips

Phoenix, Arizona Insider Travel Tips

Phoenix, Arizona Insider Travel Tips By Stacey Wittig Must Do Desert Botanical Garden – near the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport – is a must-do. Make this your first stop after your flight into Phoenix, Arizona. Docents give you a fascinating overview of the Sonoran Desert ecosystem and a better understanding of this unique clime. Second […]

WJ Tested: Wowed by Waves and Wind at The Wickaninnish Inn!

WJ Tested: Wowed by Waves and Wind at The Wickaninnish Inn!

WJ Tested: Wowed by Waves and Wind at The Wickaninnish Inn! The Wickaninnish Inn is a Relais and Chateaux Member Grab your gumboots and go west my friend!  Go west to Vancouver Island’s rugged west coast and the crashing waves at Chesterman Beach. There, near Tofino, British Columbia, you will discover the acclaimed eco-resort ~ […]

Travel Tip: 10 Reasons to Visit La Paz, Mexico

Travel Tip: 10 Reasons to Visit La Paz, Mexico

Travel Tip: 10 Reasons to Visit La Paz, Mexico By Patti Morrow On the shores of the Mexico’s southern Baja peninsula is La Paz, an authentic and colorful Mexican city whose name translates “the Peace.” Boasting 340 days of sunshine a year, beaches as beautiful as the Caribbean and a dessert climate that keeps the […]

Discovering Vietnam – First Stop Saigon

Discovering Vietnam – First Stop Saigon

Discovering Vietnam – First Stop Saigon By Jean Wethmar Why do I love traveling so much? The sounds, smells, tastes, sights and memories linger long after the pics have dulled! My first impressions of Vietnam! I’ve just landed in Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh; the old generation still refers to her as Saigon mind […]

WAVEJourney’s Adventure in Finland’s Archipelago

WAVEJourney’s Adventure in Finland’s Archipelago

WAVEJourney’s Adventure in  Finland’s Archipelago By Jill Hoelting, Photos by Vivienne Chapleo I’m a water baby. I celebrate my birthday in the summer month of July and it is my personal mandate to be on/in the water to mark “my day” each year. I also revel in remoteness, the out-of-the-way charm of a not-so-well-known destination. […]

WJ Tested: Travel Tip Norway – Ride The Rauma Railway

WJ Tested: Travel Tip Norway – Ride The Rauma Railway

WJ Tested: Travel Tip Norway – Ride The Rauma Railway By Jill Hoelting, Photos by Vivienne Chapleo Even though Thomas the Tank Engine wasn’t a popular storybook tale in my youth, my love of trains was big. My grandfather was an engineer on the iron horses clickety-clacking their way through Illinois in the mid-1900s, and […]

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