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Seeing the Four Corners with Crow Canyon – Part 1
Great Kiva at Pueblo Bonito
I’ve driven from California to Colorado and back almost every Christmas for the last fifteen years. Continue reading “Seeing the Four Corners with Crow Canyon – Part 1” »
The Gallivanting Explorer Responds To Reader Comments
From time to time, the Gallivanting Explorer likes to respond to its readers. This is one of those times. Continue reading “The Gallivanting Explorer Responds To Reader Comments” »
In Switzerland, Riding the World’s First Open Air Cable Car
The views are stunning.
I should work for the newspaper. I can pun with the best of them! Anyway, this is part 2 of my Swiss Cable Car adventures. Continue reading “In Switzerland, Riding the World’s First Open Air Cable Car” »
Switzerland and Gravity – A Cable Car Adventure
Just your everyday average Swiss Hay Maker
I’m at the 2012 Adventure Travel World Summit in Lucerne, Switzerland, where hundreds of world’s foremost adventure travel experts have congregated to share insights, make new friends, and drink extreme amounts of beer. (Every morning is also an adventure.)
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All The Pretty Sail Boats
Mayhem on the Bay
The great thing about living in San Francisco is sometimes the world comes to you. Continue reading “All The Pretty Sail Boats” »
My Travel Essentials
This is the first of what will be a regular feature, in which I interview travelers and adventurers and explorers and nomads, about what they consider essential when they travel. Continue reading “My Travel Essentials” »
A London Jogging Tour
First of all, I don’t jog. I can walk fairly fast if pursued by wild animals, but jogging—forget it. For those that like to jog and like to travel, and like liver and onions and high tea, you can learn more here.
The Grand Canyon Never Disappoints
A big hole in the ground
A lot of places, when you actually visit them, underwhelm. It’s rare that a place lives up to its billing. Continue reading “The Grand Canyon Never Disappoints” »
Engineering Lesson
On a recent trip to Wales I was allowed into the locomotive car to see the engineers at work. The Talylynn Railway is a narrow gauge track and it used to be used to carry slate from the slate mines.
This video is a little shaky, and a little on the long side, as Internet videos go, but I think its pretty interesting. You can see the countryside going by, and you also learn a good bit about driving a train.
If this gets you excited, you can take your train fetish even further and go to Wales and ride on them. (There are lots of them.) This particular line has been in continuous operation since 1865.
For more information, go here.