Tropical Travel Girl
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Walking in James Herriot’s Footsteps: An “All Creatures Great and Small” tour through the Yorkshire Dales
Visit filming locations for “All Creatures Great and Small” on a Yorkshire Dales day tour through James Herriot country with Mountain Goat Tours.
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From Oxford to London: A 12-Night Journey Through England’s History, Countryside, and Culture
Come with me as I explore England’s history, countryside, and culture on a 12-night journey from Oxford to London.
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After a day at sea, we reached our first port within the Society Islands group — Taha’a, the Vanilla Island. Following an island tour, we spent the afternoon on on Motu Mahaea, a private island where we could swim, snorkel and relax…
Rangiroa, the largest atoll in the Tuamotus chain and one of the largest in the world, had been on my radar for more than two decades…and now we had arrived!
As an ocean-lover and scuba diver, I get excited about any opportunity to visit an Aquarium. I like to call them “indoor oceans…” The Seattle Aquarium, ninth largest in the U.S. by attendance, was no exception.
Fakarava was the first port of call on our Windstar 10-day Tahiti-Tuamotus cruise. It is the second largest atoll in the Tuamotus and has been designated a Biosphere reserve by UNESCO.
If you are as fascinated by the underwater world as I am, the Georgia Aquarium should be on your “must-see” list. When it comes to “indoor oceans,” Georgia Aquarium is the world’s largest.
Who would like to be in the water with whale sharks — the biggest fish in the sea? Me! Me! Me! At the Georgia Aquarium (the world’s largest), you can do just that as part of its Journey with Gentle Giants program. If there was ever an Indoor Ocean to behold, it is here…
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at age 39 by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee, as he stood on the balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel. Here, on April 4, 1968… (Text of the sign in the photo above) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the …
So what’s it like to be on board Windstar Cruises’ Wind Spirit…in Tahiti, no less? Since the ship will be your temporary home for seven to 10 days, according to which itinerary you choose (7 day, Dreams of Tahiti or 10-day Tahiti and Tuamotus), it’s nice to get a feel for what life is like …
More than six years have passed since my husband and I returned from a dozen days spent in Tahiti and the Tuamotus — a remote part of the South Pacific located halfway between California and Australia — and I still haven’t fully recovered. Any vestiges of jet lag dissipated long ago and re-entry to real …
The NATJA (North American Travel Journalists Association) award winners have been announced! I was pleased to receive three awards for 2017! The SILVER prize winner was for my article, “Eternal appeal,” on my Greek Isles cruise on Windstar Cruises, published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, entered in the category, Cruises – Print Publication. You can …