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 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, [...]
Debra Solomon straps on her life jacket and heads down
some wild rapids in Fiji.
It’s no use telling this complete novice that a whitewater
rafting trip is only a grade 2/3. The numbers mean nothing, and I’d
seen the movie The River Wild so knew the dangers ahead. Possible
kidnapping, being forced at knifepoint over a mighty waterfall and
dashing [...]
Photographer Jacky Ghossein brings her unique
perspective to Arnhem Land.
Who would have thought stubbing my toes, getting lost and
running out of petrol could be so much fun?
Not to mention the awesome “truckie’s tan” or the days it took
to remove the dirt from under my nails after coming home from a
four-wheel-drive photographic tour through Kakadu and Arnhem
Land.
Arnhem [...]
But its not just the lush landscape or proximity to one of the worlds best surf breaks that lured Cowen to the village of Canggu three years ago.
As the owner of Australian leather accessories company Mogil, Cowen also sees Bali as an ideal manufacturing base for her handbags, belts and shoes.
The labour is very cheap [...]
Seated high in the rafts stern, Paul Button narrows his eyes as he searches for the best line, the smartest angle to take us safely through the maelstrom of tumbling, turbulent white water ahead.
Then the urgent command: Forward paddle, go hard.
Now our chief guides paddle is flashing like a conductors baton. Wed better do the [...]
Barry Stone visits a craftsman-style bed and breakfast
in northern California that’s one of a kind.
If you’re an egret or spotted owl and your habitat includes
Mendocino County in northern California, I know a great place to
stay. The birdhouses are handmade from eco-salvaged redwoods;
there’s your own personal wetlands restoration project to snack in;
and there are state forests [...]
