Safari Adventures in Botswana
We’d heard the lions roar, and suddenly there they were, two huge males eyeing us from about 40 feet away.
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We’d heard the lions roar, and suddenly there they were, two huge males eyeing us from about 40 feet away.
How Santa Barbara’s Vitamin Angels is saving India and beyond, one dose at a time.
Let’s not deny it: We live largely in paradise, and have all the wants of the modern earth-dweller at our fingertips-from great food and tasty wine to natural splendor, outdoor adventure, luxury accommodations, and plenty of cultural happenings.
There are many things to see in Washington DC but it is the memorials that hit home.
Moers festival revives the spirit of European jazz fests.
Yesterday’s trip had taken me across the eastern half of Kentucky. Though as beautiful as the western half as I neared the Appalachians the land gradually turned from rolling hills and grassland to tree-covered foothills and finally mountains. Near Pikesville I was full on into the mountains and as I entered Williamson, West Virginia the sings that this was coal mining country were everywhere.
When I was a kid growing up in Cincinnati, we could look from the bluffs where the mighty Ohio River cut through across and see Kentucky on the other side.
I opened the curtains to a welcome sight the next morning – clear skies. After 36 hours of never ending rain, I was looking forward to getting on the road again – to get an in depth look at the Ozark Mountains.
Almost without notice the geography has changed: what were small dips and gentle knolls in Kansas are turning into larger hills and deeper dips. I’m edging my way into the Ozarks, through towns such as Newkirk, Ponca City and Pawhuska. The driving is easy with little traffic on the road and the hills and valleys picturesque. The towns are equally picturesque.
It is just a handful of miles from Mullinsville to Greensburg, Kansas but far enough that the former was spared, the latter had been almost totally destroyed by an EF5 tornado – the strongest possible – on May 4, 2007, not quite a year earlier.