Posts in Category: United States
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Hells Canyon Adventures – Snake River Rafting
I’ve come to Idaho for a number of reasons, including visiting Ernest Hemingway’s grave in Ketchum, but the top one is definitely to travel through Hells Canyon. It is a ten mile stretch of water on the Snake River just below the Hells Canyon Dam that links Idaho and Oregon in the middle of Hells […]
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Colonial National Historic Park, Virginia
When I was a boy there was a monthly event that I looked forward to with almost as great anticipation as Christmas morning – the arrival of the latest National Geographic magazine. I loved poring over the maps and looking at the pictures for which the magazine was justly famous. In 1960 National Geographic started […]
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Philadelphia – A Day in the City of Brotherly Love
On our most recent mid-Spring journey to Florida from Nova Scotia Alison and I decided to stop in Philadelphia for a few days as we’d never spent any time in what is one of America’s truly great cities. Our visit began at beautiful Longwood Gardens which I wrote about in this post and ended with a way too […]
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Oconee County, SC – 7 Great Reasons to Visit
At the 2017 Society of American Travel Writers conference in Portland, Oregon I had the pleasure of meeting with Ken Sloan, tourism rep for Oconee County, South Carolina. He showed me enough about the county and was so genuine in his belief about its rightful place as a top tourist destination, that I decided to […]
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Brookgreen Gardens – A Sculptural Masterpiece
It was over twenty years ago that Alison and I first visited Brookgreen Gardens in Murrell’s Inlet, just south of Myrtle Beach. We did it more by chance than planning as we were headed south on U.S.17 for our annual sojourn to Sanibel, Florida and came across this impressive sculpture at the entrance and decided […]
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Jamestown Settlement – History Comes Alive
You might be tempted to think that the phrase “Where History Comes Alive” is just a bit overused in the context of historical recreations and to a certain extent that is true. But those concerns definitely don’t apply to Jamestown Settlement where historical accuracy, knowledgable re-enactors and a great location on the James River really […]
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Wildwater Rafting on the Chattooga River
Alison and I are in Oconee County, South Carolina at the invitation of Ken Sloan, the county’s director of everything related to tourism and man, does he have a great product to showcase. Oconee is the state’s westernmost county and the highest in elevation. When most people think of visiting South Carolina the first things […]
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National Constitution Center in Philadelphia
This is the third of four posts I am writing about Alison’s and my visit to the great city of Philadelphia, which has long been on our ‘must do more than drive by’ list for years. The first was on Longwood Gardens which anyone with the remotest interest in horticulture must visit at least once in […]
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Huntington Beach State Park
When most people think of going to Myrtle Beach, they are planning to play golf, sun bathe and swim on the Strand and enjoy some great seafood or barbecue. But let’s face it, at the height of tourist season Myrtle Beach can be pretty crowded, hectic and to be honest, a bit over commercialized. There […]