Adventures

Read more about the article Great Salt Lake Adventures: Antelope Island And Salt Flats
The Outdoors

Great Salt Lake Adventures: Antelope Island And Salt Flats

2020 will be a year we will never forget. When COVID arrived, our lives came to a screeching halt and it will have an impact on us forever. I went from traveling every week to shelter-in-place for 6 months.

Except for a backpacking trip to Yosemite at the end of June, I was stuck at home. When one of my friends told me she was driving her daughter to college at The University of Utah in August, I jumped at the opportunity to join her. And we decided to turn it into a mini vacation.

After some research, I planned a couple of days of  Great Salt Lake adventures.

(more…)

1 Comment
August 25, 2020
Read more about the article Exploring Joshua Tree And The Wild West
The Magnificent Joshua Tree
The Outdoors

Exploring Joshua Tree And The Wild West

Palm Springs is known to a lot of people for their beautiful golf resorts and for Coachella, the yearly music festival. However, we went to Palm Springs with a different plan: exploring Joshua Tree and the Wild West.

Joshua Tree National Park, just an hour from Palm Springs, is unique as it is a place where two deserts meet and an oasis of flora and fauna.

In addition to the famous Joshua tree it’s named after, there are a lot of other plants and trees, like the exotic Cholla cactus and the Yucca tree.

During our trip, we also visited Pioneertown and went horseback riding in the Indian Canyons. Both made us feel like we were part of an old Wild West movie. (more…)

0 Comments
March 23, 2020
Read more about the article Hiking The Kilauea Volcano
Magma Picture
The Outdoors

Hiking The Kilauea Volcano

Unpredictable, Wild, And Exciting

During our visit to the Big Island of Hawaii in 2018, we booked a trip with Aloha Lava Tours to hike on the Kilauea volcano.

Timing can be everything because nature can be unpredictable. Four months after our adventure, the 2018 lower Puna eruption on Kilauea volcano’s East Rift Zone began. For months, the island was in a state of emergency.

If we had planned our trip a couple of months later, this trip would not have been possible. In other words, we would have missed what is probably the most amazing and spectacular experience I have had in my life.

I highly recommend when visiting the Big Island include the Hawai’i Volcanos National Park in your plans. Explore the raw wild beauty of the island. Maybe you can even hike a volcano as we did.

Island of Hawaii
Lava Area
Plant
Magma Picture
Magma
Picture On Magma
Flowing Lava

 

 

(more…)

29 Comments
January 26, 2020
Read more about the article The Beating Heart of Havana: Food, Art and Music
Cities / Foodies

The Beating Heart of Havana: Food, Art and Music

“Both for Havana’s beauty and decay, it’s very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you go”

– Brin Jonathan Butler

I visited Cuba a lifetime ago. It was in the days of Fidel’s reign and rules were strict and supplies were limited. We stayed in Holguin area, on the opposite side of the island from Havana. Although I was in Cuba and we had a great time, I never felt I experienced the real Cuba. The visit to the beautiful city of Trinidad, offered me a glimpse of that Cuba. In addition, after reading a couple of books about Havana, I knew I had to go back. I wanted to walk the streets of old Havana. See the sunset on the Malecon, drink in the history, the culture and the people. I wanted to feel that rhythm and beat: the beating heart of Havana: food, art and music. 

(more…)

9 Comments
November 4, 2019
Read more about the article Canyoning in the Sydney’s Blue Mountains
EXIF_HDL_ID_1
The Outdoors

Canyoning in the Sydney’s Blue Mountains

An exhilarating day of hiking a canyon, rock pool jumps and a waterfall abseil.

Life is short, take a jump

Because Sydney has so much to offer when planning our trip, we created a list of things we wanted to do. That list included the traditional sights like the Opera house, the Harbor Bridge, Manly Ferry ride and Bondi beach, but also a couple more adventurous options. One of those adventures was canyoning  in Sydney’s Blue Mountains. Because I had done a couple of canyoneering trips in Zion and really enjoyed it, we decided that this was just up our alley. However we did not realize that we were about to take our adventures to another level.

EXIF_HDL_ID_1
EXIF_HDL_ID_1
EXIF_HDL_ID_1
EXIF_HDL_ID_1
EXIF_HDL_ID_1
EXIF_HDL_ID_1
EXIF_HDL_ID_1

(more…)

0 Comments
December 9, 2018