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HIGH ON ADVENTURE 
Feature stories and photoessays for the Adventurous Traveler
Back issues @ Travel Destinations
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2013 Vol 17 , No. 4  Lynn Rosen, Content Editor; Steve Giordano, Web Editor

 
San Francisco Acquarium

SAN FRANCISCO: OPEN YOUR GOLDEN GATES, by Lynn Rosen

Top tens are trendy, but can we have a top twelve, a top twenty, thirty? San Francisco defies short lists of fabulous places to visit and things to do and food to eat. Tens are just not enough. But here's my short list. ...more

 
 
American Youth Circus

AMERICAN YOUTH CIRCUS SWINGS IN SEATTLE

For kids and young adults that have always dreamed of flying on the trapeze or walking the tightrope, the American Youth Circus Organization (AYCO) opened the door to make that dream a reality this summer. Each year the festival rotates locations and this past August, Seattle played host....more

 
  Machu Picchu
 

VISITING MACHU PICCHU, by Lee Juillerat
 
A day earlier I'd been dazed and amazed while wandering through the fabled "Lost City of the Incas." Now, from my perch on Huayna Picchu, the knobby-topped peak that towers above Machu Picchu, the ruins took on a different perspective.....more

 
  Train men

ELEGANCE ON RAILS HIGH IN THE ANDES, by Edy Henderson

This month Ted & Sylvia Blishak, in memory of Sylvia’s late sister Edy Henderson, present her trip of a lifetime......more

  Puerto Vallara

VACATION COMMANDMENTS, decoded by Vicki Andersen

The ten “Vacation Commandments” posted at the Samoan Hideaway Beach Resort, with personal reflections....more

  Three generations

OREGON PROJECT DAY SHOOT + 30 JULY 15, 2013 by Larry Turner

In the first light, I awoke and quickly turned on the coffee maker. After a splash of cold water on my face, I went to the patio and my first dawn shot was before my eyes: an industrious beaver moving a large piece of aspen up the river. Grabbing my camera, I reeled off several shots.....more

 
Mountain Collective logo

The Mountain Collective™ and Protect Our Winters (POW) Announce Innovative Partnership

Protect Our Winters is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to engage and mobilize the winter sports community to lead the fight against climate change....more

 

 
Farm to table chef Sheeshler

FARM TO TABLE, by Yvette Cardozo

Farm to table isn’t all that new. But the “2-Hour Salad” is such a cool idea, I had to visit the farm and then eat the just-picked result. When Scheehser met me at the edge of his fields, it was one of the Northwest’s unusual 90-plus degree days. Bottles of water in hand, we wandered the crops....more

     
     
     
     
 

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