VACATION COMMANDMENTS
by Vicki Hoefling Andersen

Photo-illustrated reminders of how to behave on your travels to other countries, and in your own country for that matter...

SAFE CITY CYCLING
by Lynn Rosen

Before you start your city bike ride, plan routes with a preference for wide shoulders or bike lanes and low traffic areas. Check your ABCs - air, brakes and chain. Also be sure to check the quick release levers on your tires to make sure your bike is safe to ride.

AUTUMN BACKROADS: Oregon to Montana by Larry Turner

In the camper shell and in my pickup backseat, I packed my camping gear, fly fishing gear, food and drink, warm clothes, a small library of books and some other accessories, and off I went into the autumn blue highways of life.

CHECKING OUT THE CRUZBIKE, FASTEST ROAD BIKE IN THE WORLD
by Steve Giordano

"You're going to die someday, but it won't be of a heart attack,'' said the doctor after going over all the stress and medical test results. ``Go ahead and ride the damned thing, but take it easy on the hills."

ELDER SCUBA DIVING IN BARBADOS
by Yvette Cardozo

I like warm water. I realized along the way that shallow (say 60 feet or so) dives not only give you more time but usually have better life to see. So when I recently went to Barbados, I talked to a couple of dive operators about "elder" divers.

HIKING OFFA'S DYKE -- WALES' MYSTICAL PATH, by Lee Juillerat

Experience abbeys, ruins, villages, and B&Bs along the Wales border. The Offa's Dyke Path is unlike any trail I had seen. Imagine hiking through farms and country lanes to the still rural outskirts of cities.

ADVENTURE POEMS by Timothy Pilgrim Adventure Poet Laureate
Books on the way out (with a nod to Glen Larum)

"My life is all I've got."
  -- Richard Hugo in The Triggering Town
Sun on horizon, you read an ending
like Milton's -- gone to blindness,
looking for light. It's time to flee,

OFF-SEASON TRAVEL
Humor Column by Noma d'Plume

We just booked two tickets to Tucson... for August. Yes, August, the off-est of off seasons for that desert destination. The month when Tucson's average high temps hover at a balmy 100 degrees Fahrenheit.