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HIGH on ADVENTURE
JULY/AUGUST
2023, OUR 27TH YEAR

A bi-monthly adventure travel magazine
by a Pacific Northwest consortium of journalists/photographers.

Kayak surfing

 
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FEATURED TRAVEL STORIES FOR JULY/AUGUST 2023

Lynn Rosen, Content Editor; Steve Giordano, Web Editor

 
   
  Grand Canyon Railway dome car  

HISTORIC RAILWAYS PART 2: THE GRAND CANYON RAILWAY, by Lynn Rosen

Grand Canyon Railway has been taking people from Williams, AZ, to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon since 1901 when it was built as a branch line by the legendary Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (ATSF) railroad. Lynn Rosen takes us on a grand tour.



         
  New Zealand  

NEW ZEALAND'S SOUTH ISLAND: INVERCARGILL to GORE by Larry Turner

We awoke early, rolled the dice, and took some NZ backroads north. We were treated to a stunning sunrise, made even more-so as we came across a band of sheep being moved from one paddock to another.

 
         
  Motorcycle with surfboard carrier  

MY BIGGEST ADVENTURE EVER, or How I ended Up in the Middle of the Pacific
by Vicki Hoefling Andersen

Perhaps for this trip you're packing your entire life into a 45-foot shipping container and departing with a one-way ticket in hand. Butterflies? You have NO idea!

 
         
  Spearhead  

THE TROGLODYTES AMONG US - Offpiste Humor by Steve Giordano

Our Stone Age ancestors lived healthier lives than we do today, because their bodies and minds were in tune with their lifestyles. We haven't even adapted to electricity yet, or even going to work for that matter.

 
         
  Hart Mountain petroglyph  

FINDING BEAUTY AT HART MOUNTAIN - 'This is a Land to Possess and Embrace'
by Lee Juillerat

This likely sacred place is a small lake on the vast desert plateau atop Poker Jim Ridge. In what is now the Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge, nearly 100 drawings decorate the basalt ledge ringing Petroglyph Lake's western shore.

 
         
  Tim Pilgrim, poet  

ADVENTURE POEM by Timothy Pilgrim Adventure Poet Laureate

The capes we wear

Superman tattooed on one arm,
Batman taking up the other,

 
         
  Melbourne tour guide  

DOWN UNDER: TOURING AFOOT AND AFLOAT
Australia - Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra
by Brad Hathaway


Would you call a visit to Miami and Washington DC a tour of the United States? No, neither would I. So I can't say our visit to Sydney and Melbourne (with a side trip to Canberra) was a tour of Australia.

 
         
  Not a miwok village  

FROM PEAKS TO PASTURES
An Adventure through Northern California
by Chris Wayne

I drove as Tom navigated and interpreted. Our first stop was in the town of Volcano, at Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park, where the native Miwok Indians had lived for centuries. There was also a reconstruction of a Miwok village (The picture on the left is of a kid's version).

 
         
  Busy airport graphic  

CHAOS AT THE AIRPORT: Pro strategies for surviving the next air travel meltdown
by Christopher Elliott

Another airline service meltdown is coming. It's not a question of if, but when it will happen. And this one could make last holiday's airline problems look like a minor delay. Says who? Say experts. Says the Federal Aviation Administration. Says everyone.

 
         
  White forever bike  

IN PURSUIT OF THE FOREVER BIKE
by North Bennett

Every bicycle is built of a collection of ancient, venerable forms: two circles and two triangles. We associate the first shape with perfection and the second with strength. I kept imagining a forever bike glinting into sunset after sunset. I saw it roll on and on - well, duh - forever.