Ios Island If you’re young, enjoy the beach, dancing, drinking, and staying up till the wee hours of the morning, then Ios is the island for you this summer. The island is beyond beautiful. Vast white sand beaches are complimented by blue and white tiled hills. Ios starts to get very warm in June, however [ Read More ]
Archive for the ‘adventure travel’ Category
The Parthenon It was June, it was warm, and it was my first full day in Athens, Greece. I had taken the eight hour flight alone and I was ready for the self-discovery that I had day-dreamed so long and hard about. I strapped on my walking sandals, slipped on a coral-colored t-shirt and made [ Read More ]
Categories: adventure travel
Trevi Fountain at Night The largest baroque fountain in Italy’s Rome, the Trevi Fountain is so much more than just an incredible statue with water running off of it. The fountain stands at the junction of three of the city’s roads and marks the end point of the modern Acqua Vergine, the rejuvenated Aqua Virgo, [ Read More ]
Categories: adventure travel, travel
Please welcome today’s guest blogger, Sara Benson from The Indie Traveler blog and Sutro Media So much that goes on in Las Vegas these days happens off the Strip (just ask those bachelor-party dudes from The Hangover movie!). Sure, you can have a blast just cruising the Strip, never leaving the neon lights behind. But [ Read More ]
Categories: adventure travel, Tips
Please welcome guest blogger, Andrea, from realtenerifeislanddrives.com The wake-up call came at 4 a.m. They needn’t have bothered, I was already a fully paid up member of the wide-awake club. In fact, I’d been in the club for the past six hours, staring into the blackest darkness I have ever experienced, like sensory deprivation. I [ Read More ]
Categories: adventure travel, travel
Please welcome guest bloggers, Amy & Keith Sutter, from GreenAroundTheGlobe.com The air is still and cool as the balloon rises silently over the Cappadocia moonscape. To the east, the orange glow of sunrise is beginning to appear. Minutes later, as the sky begins to lighten, dozens of brightly colored balloons come into view and the [ Read More ]
Categories: adventure travel
Please welcome guest blogger, Alfonso, from travelmadagascar.org. This three-day-trek was one the most exciting trails I have ever made. We took the train that connects Fianarantsoa and Mananara and got out at a small and less visited village called Andrambovato. The village stretches at both sides of the train rails, and since the train just [ Read More ]
Categories: adventure travel, Destinations
Thanks for coming back for our third (and final) installment of my trip to Romania. Let’s set the stage (again)- A naive American girl from the suburbs takes a spur of the moment trip to rural Romania with a group of guys she hardly knows. On her journey she breaks toilets, cracks a sink open [ Read More ]
Categories: adventure travel, Monday Morning Memories
The first time I had ever heard of red rock or of Arches National Park in Moab, Utah (pronounced Mo-Ab) was in 1989 when I saw a young Indiana Jones riding his horse past a precipitous rock formation. I was intrigued. How did those rocks do that? And was there really buried treasure in those [ Read More ]
Categories: adventure travel, Monday Morning Memories
My first real trip out of the USA that I can remember (because I don’t count 5 hours in Niagara Falls, Canada or living as a toddler in the South Pacific) was to Monterrey, Mexico. My friends and I drove to Laredo, Texas (where I discovered that I never want to go through that kind [ Read More ]
Categories: adventure travel, Budget, Monday Morning Memories
