2012 Favorite Travel Things
Traveling full time means I don’t own many things. What I do carry, however, are usually of high quality. I will often spend a great deal of time researching an item before I make a purchase. This year I wanted to take a page out of Oprah’s playbook and share with everyone many of my [...]
The Quest For The Perfect Bag
Whether it is a suitcase, a backpack, a duffle-bag or a rollaway, the bag is probably the quintessential item for travel. No matter where you go or how you travel, you have stuff and that stuff has to go in something if you want to be able to transport it. Even hobos would use a [...]
UNESCO World Heritage Site #190: Landscape of Grand Pré
From the World Heritage inscription: Situated in the southern Minas Basin of Nova Scotia, the Grand Pré marshland and archaeological sites constitute a cultural landscape bearing testimony to the development of agricultural farmland using dykes and the aboiteau wooden sluice system, started by the Acadians in the 17th century and further developed and maintained by [...]
UNESCO World Heritage Site #189: Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
From the World Heritage inscription: The Stonehenge, Avebury, and Associated Sites World Heritage property is internationally important for its complexes of outstanding prehistoric monuments. It comprises two areas of chalkland in Southern Britain within which complexes of Neolithic and Bronze Age ceremonial and funerary monuments and associated sites were built. Each area contains a focal [...]
Photo Essay : Egypt
visited Egypt in early 2009. It was a place I had been anxious to visit during my previous two years of traveling. They pyramids and the other Egyptian ruins are some of the most ancient remnants of human civilization. Egypt didn’t disappoint. Despite a rather negative experience at the pyramids, my experience in Egypt overall [...]
UNESCO World Heritage Site #188 – City of Bath
From the World Heritage inscription: The Roman remains, especially the Temple of Sulis Minerva and the baths complex (based around the hot springs at the heart of the Roman city of Aquae Sulis, which have remained at the heart of the City’s development ever since) are amongst the most famous and important Roman remains north [...]
