Travel

Historic hotel remains calm during the Olympics by Ulrike Rodrigues “You know what the trouble with getting old is?” Laurence bends to pour a coffee, then straightens to let a younger server squeeze by in the hotel’s busy breakfast restaurant. “Once you’ve figured everything out, no one wants to hear it!” Laurence’s customers chuckle and [...]

by Mark Sissons As dawn breaks over the carpet of clouds obscuring the Serengeti Plains miles below, I let out a whoop of joy. I’ve finally reached the top of Africa. Shivering and nearly hypothermic, I’m also punch drunk from the effects of extreme altitude. But none of that matters now because I’m finally standing [...]

A Canadian in China First Impressions This is the 2nd part of “Tales of an ESL Teacher”. You can read the first part here When I was a child my mother used to tell me, “Eat your carrots. Think about all the starving children in China.” I honestly believed that if I ate all my [...]

A safe, comfortable way to hunt wild animals by Robert Scheer The giraffe’s enormous tongue gently plucked a green leaf from my outstretched hand. “Prehensile,” our guide called it. “And about 18-inches long, so it can wrap around branches and strip off leaves.” This giraffe, however, didn’t have to work so hard. She merely waited [...]