Travel experiences, memories and stories about exploring this great planet of ours

Winterplace tops the crest of Flat Top Mountain and is located two minutes off I-77 at Exit 28 Ghent / Flat Top, West Virginia. Winterplace is not only a ski resort, but offers a bounty of beautiful scenery. It’s affordable and easily accessible, offering 27 trails and 9 lifts. There’s a snow tubing park with [...]

Today we stopped playing Civ long enough for lunch at Mexican Wave and a visit to the Guiyou silk market. I suggest a couple margaritas before any shopping adventure. Guiyou silk street is listed in Lonely Planet and so forth, and it’s enough of a landmark that I’ve used it to tell cabbies where Mexican [...]

Yesterday, I stopped by the Modern Beauty Salon in the Ginza Mall, mainly to use their shower. I needed the shower because on Monday our hot water heater died in spectacular fashion. We’ve been heating water in the electric kettle, pouring it into a basin and sponge-bathing, just like in my first apartment in Yantai, [...]

It’s time for another trip to Wangfujing to visit the foreign-language bookstores! I’ve read everything in the house at least twice (Except for Scarlett, because seriously, once was more than enough.) and needed to restock, and Stick was looking for a German-English dictionary because he’s decided to learn German instead of Chinese. On our way [...]

If you are not familiar with the whereabouts of the Red Sea, you can pretty well say it runs down the eastern border of Egypt from the Sinai Peninsula on the Israel border, where you will find the Taba Hotels complex, down through Sharm el Sheikh, onto Hurghada, and then Soma Bay and beyond. These [...]

Kenya is a part of the vast continent of Africa and yet it can provide you with an experience that is out of Africa. A Kenyan Safari is something that everyone visiting Africa should go for. The beaches of Kenya are untouched and unexplored. There is a vast coastline, which is protected by Coral reefs [...]

The savannahs of Kenya are a home to a wide range of wildlife. One of the most frequently seen wildlife is the spotted hyena, yet little is known about them. In the traditional African society, the Hyena has been branded ‘the coward one’. This has been due to the way of feeding of the hyena. [...]

Everybody who thinks they know what they are talking about will tell you the best time to visit Kenya is between July and September. The reasons for this are firstly that the wildebeest in their hundreds of thousands are arriving from the Serengeti. This has the very unfortunate side effect of dramatically increasing the number [...]

They have said that Belize is one of the most beautiful places to spend your honeymoon or a romantic getaway. Belize is a place where you can enjoy a different type of lifestyle if only for a few days. Once you have visited this beautiful place, you will not want to leave. Belize is known [...]