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  • Along the way to Hana, found this charming horse eyeing our tour group.

    Along the way to Hana, found this charming horse eyeing our tour group.

    By: fooforever

  • More Dead than Alive (5th Franciscan Fair in Poznan)

    More Dead than Alive (5th Franciscan Fair in Poznan)

    By: jjspychala

  • A below view of a church in Brazil.

    A below view of a church in Brazil.

    By: happienswt

  • This photo, of the edge of our kidney shaped swimming pool, was taken at the Caliente Tropics Resort in Palm Springs, a super cool, mid-century ...

    This photo, of the edge of our kidney shaped swimming pool, was taken at the Caliente Tropics Resort in Palm Springs, a super cool, mid-century ...

    By: Mango

  • Vail Village in the summertime. A view through the village showing the famous clock tower and shops in the village. The massive snowfall this year ...

    Vail Village in the summertime. A view through the village showing the famous clock tower and shops in the village. The massive snowfall this year ...

    By: tntp45

  • 2011 Franciscan Fair in Poznan. Catherine Lipert (Academy of Music in Wroclaw) is musically gifted master's degree student involved with the folk-rock band ‘Castle Dreams’ ...

    2011 Franciscan Fair in Poznan. Catherine Lipert (Academy of Music in Wroclaw) is musically gifted master's degree student involved with the folk-rock band ‘Castle Dreams’ ...

    By: jjspychala

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Trona Pinnacles, Mojave Desert, California

Trona Pinnacles, Mojave Desert, California

| Central California
By Ruth Newell, Feb 21, 2012

The Trona Pinnacles (not to be confused with Pinnacles National Monument near Steinbeck’s Soledad) is one of those natural geological wonders that awes. Set back five miles off SR 178, twenty miles east of Ridgecrest, CA, ... More Post a comment


Day Trip from Delhi: Taj Mahal and the Red Fort of Agra

Day Trip from Delhi: Taj Mahal and the Red Fort of Agra

India | Asia
By Mary Spierling, Feb 21, 2012

The stunning architectural beauty of the Taj Mahal, built entirely of white marble, is particularly evident at sunrise and sunset. At sunrise the changing light casts shadows, and at night it seems to glow – especially ... More Post a comment


Captivating Cape Verde: Locked in an African Wine Bar

Captivating Cape Verde: Locked in an African Wine Bar

Africa
By Ken Jackson, Feb 18, 2012

I’m sitting in an African bar scratching a description of Praia, Cape Verde, into a notebook, sipping my third cup of passable Portuguese plonk. I don't know if it was my intense concentration on the composition, ... More Comment (1)


A Stroll on Balboa Island

A Stroll on Balboa Island

| California
By Dominic DeGrazier, Feb 16, 2012

For starters, the name is misleading. “Balboa Island” is not an island – well, not a real one, anyway. Back in the early 1900s its harbor, Newport Harbor, needed channels dredged of sand and silt to ... More Post a comment


Shooting Star Saloon - Huntsville, Utah

Shooting Star Saloon - Huntsville, Utah

| Utah
By Joe Tuborg, Feb 16, 2012

Utah might be the last place on earth you would expect to find the longest-running open bar west of the Mississippi. And when traveling towards Huntsville, UT, it’s not hard to imagine that you are close ... More Post a comment


Cologne, Germany's Love-Locked Bridge

Cologne, Germany's Love-Locked Bridge

Germany
By M'Liss Hinshaw, Feb 14, 2012

Trains rumbled over the bridge and thousands of padlocks chattered in unison as I walked across the Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne, Germany, looking at messages of love. Row after row of various shaped and sized padlocks ... More Post a comment


Hip Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Hip Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

| Asia | Vietnam
By Derek Ray, Feb 10, 2012

"In Ho Chi Minh City, there are eight million people and five million motorbikes," my guide informed me as we slowly wound our way through this bustling city en route to the Củ Chi tunnels. “No ... More Post a comment


Getaway to Key West

Getaway to Key West

Florida
By Michele Addington, Feb 10, 2012

The Conchs (those born in Key West) are friendly sorts, and so are the chickens: you’ll see them anywhere and everywhere. Large iguanas can also be found basking in the historic city cemetery, where some of ... More Comments (3)


Old-school in Wheeling, West Virginia

Old-school in Wheeling, West Virginia

| West Virginia
By Tamar Fleishman, Feb 8, 2012

There was a time when Wheeling, West Virginia, had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the U.S. Once the capital of “newly restored” Virginia and the new state of West Virginia, it was America’s ... More Post a comment


La Bufadora, Baja – Escape from SoCal Sprawl

La Bufadora, Baja – Escape from SoCal Sprawl

Baja | Mexico
By Tom Gatch, Feb 7, 2012

Punta Banda is a narrow, mostly barren finger of land that pokes out into the Pacific Ocean at the southern end of Bahía Todos Santos near Ensenada. Near the very tip, busloads of bug-eyed tourists regularly ... More Comments (2)

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