Longing for a European vacation but short on vacation time? Québec City is the perfect getaway for vacation deprived Americans, especially those of us living in the Northeast. Its cobblestone...

Even the Mayan builders of Tulum knew that it’s all about location, location, location! Perched on a cliff overlooking the clear, turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea, the Mayan Ruins...

Away from the tourist buses and crowds of the world famous Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza, or those of nearby Tulum on the coast, there is the opportunity to explore...

What is the connection between the Lincoln Memorial and a small town embedded in the Colorado Rocky Mountains? Marble. Parts of the historic monument were sculpted out of said stone...

“BACK PADDLE, BACK PADDLE, BACK PADDLE!” screamed our guide Roberto as if it was a matter of life and death. We were going through our first Class IV rapids, which...

Machu Picchu and I have something in common: we share the same birthday! Sunday, July 24th, marks the 100th Anniversary of Hiram Bingham’s “re-discovery” of Machu Picchu, the “Lost City of...

 It had rained all night at the Manu Wildlife Center, in the Southern Peruvian Amazon.  So, it was a very soggy morning when Marlene, our jungle guide from Inkanatura, came...