Road trips allow us to mope, celebrate, ponder and even spend a few hours not thinking about anything, save for a nondescript succession of signs and lines. But all of that takes time, and time on the road takes gas money. For those in search of catharsis on a budget, Stephen Thompson has compiled a [...]
That’s kind of how I feel about Catherine MacLellan’s album, Church Bell Blues. She’s an excellent road trip companion, even if she’s just a voice coming out of the stereo. I found myself really listening to what she was saying or should I say, singing about and I never minded hearing those same stories again [...]
It’s the next step for civilians who are looking to explore the final frontier: Billionaire Richard Branson and his partner unveiled the White Knight Two today. Branson’s partner, Burt Rutan, designed the first private manned rocket to reach space in 2004. Now their Virgin Galactic project aims to give others the chance to enjoy that [...]
The trip of a lifetime turned into a nightmare for more than a dozen Tampa students. The Wharton High graduates were forced to fend for their lives in Cancun.
“The boat started to rock back and forth and the front of the boat started to lift out of the water.” says Wharton High graduate Matt Koehler.
He [...]
The cruellest corner of rugby’s lexicon is dedicated to damnation by faint praise, and it can surely hold no more withering euphemism than the ‘journeyman’ tag that is routinely applied to decent but clearly limited players.
Just ask Matt Mustchin, the 31-year-old Edinburgh forward to whom the term has had a limpet-like attachment for most of [...]
A whitewater rafting trip ended badly Sunday on the west branch of the Penobscot river, just north of Millinocket.
Cruz and four others were thrown from the raft while going through a rapid.
When Cruz was pulled back into the boat a short time later, he lost consciousness.
Wardens think Cruz may have experiened a medical problem.
He was [...]
The Express-Times has mapped a route for day-trippers looking for a meaningful Memorial Day road trip.
These stones hold few words, but stand in brief testament to brave men’s deeds. Others overwhelm with names, battles and all the details that link local communities to heroes made of ordinary men and women.
The full loop is about 180-miles, [...]
Dr Albert Hofmann, who died last week, was the inventor of LSD. But he was not merely a chemist. He was a revolutionary.
Hofmann changed the way a whole generation looked at the world. This is the sort of statement that is customarily made about thinkers and scientists of the stature of, say, Marx or Einstein. [...]
At the small east Auckland college, 550 pupils, staff and parents remembered the three boys, three girls and their teacher who were on the final day of an adventure holiday.
Hundreds of kilometres away in Tongariro National Park, 50 distraught staff of the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre returned to Mangatepopo Stream to pay their [...]
While many messages express sympathy for the families who lost loved ones, others question how such a tragedy could happen. Here is a selection of comments from the Fairfax NZ website Stuff, the New Zealand Herald and news.com.au:
Mike Laowry, Brisbane: I love white-water rafting and this will not deter me. However, it is another reminder [...]
