Baby's First Days at Home
The moment that you have waited for has finally arrived: the day you bring your newborn baby home from the hospital. Like all other expectant parents you will have spent the last nine months preparing for this day. You will have a baby room full of everything a newborn could possibly want. You will have read book after book on a wide magnitude of baby topics from what to name your baby to when you can expect those first words. You will have walked and paced the...
Backpackers and Billionaires
It used to be that backpacking trips to Fiji involved a bus ride from Nadi to Suva, then a ferry to somewhere like Ovalau, Savusavu, Taveuni or Kadavu. No more. These days young budget travelers are lining up to go to the Yasawa Islands, a chain of 16 large volcanic islands and dozens of smaller ones roughly 35 km off the west coast of Viti Levu.The dazzling white beaches, clear warm waters, colorful coral reefs, and sunny dry climate make the Yasawa Group an...
Backpackers and Billionaires
It used to be that backpacking trips to Fiji involved a bus ride from Nadi to Suva, then a ferry to somewhere like Ovalau, Savusavu, Taveuni or Kadavu. No more. These days young budget travelers are lining up to go to the Yasawa Islands, a chain of 16 large volcanic islands and dozens of smaller ones roughly 35 km off the west coast of Viti Levu.The dazzling white beaches, clear warm waters, colorful coral reefs, and sunny dry climate make the Yasawa Group an...
Backpackers and Billionairesenvious onlookers as mini-cruise ships and yachts carried wealthy foreigners along their shores.In May 2000, rabble-rouser George Speight and assorted thugs seized the Parliament building in Suva, turning Fiji on its head. Speight?s pro-indigenous rhetoric struck a chord in the Yasawas. Villagers from Nacula Island staged a mini-coup on Turtle Island, locking Evanson in one of his 14 luxurious bungalows as village youths rode wildly around Nanuya Levu on Evanson?s...
Backpacking South East Asia on an Adventurous RouteTreo border crossing into Vietnam. Hanoi is a very interesting place with lots to do and also offers a few interesting side trips: Sapa is a beautiful village set in the mountains, and Halong Bay, a Unesco World Heritage site, offers amazing views of thousands of mountainous karsts jutting up from the ocean waters.In Hanoi, you can buy an ?Open Tour? bus ticket that gets you all the way south to Ho Chi Minh (Saigon). It has a standard set of...
Backpacking South East Asia on an Adventurous RouteTreo border crossing into Vietnam. Hanoi is a very interesting place with lots to do and also offers a few interesting side trips: Sapa is a beautiful village set in the mountains, and Halong Bay, a Unesco World Heritage site, offers amazing views of thousands of mountainous karsts jutting up from the ocean waters.In Hanoi, you can buy an ?Open Tour? bus ticket that gets you all the way south to Ho Chi Minh (Saigon). It has a standard set of...
Backpacking South East Asia on an Adventurous RouteTreo border crossing into Vietnam. Hanoi is a very interesting place with lots to do and also offers a few interesting side trips: Sapa is a beautiful village set in the mountains, and Halong Bay, a Unesco World Heritage site, offers amazing views of thousands of mountainous karsts jutting up from the ocean waters.In Hanoi, you can buy an ?Open Tour? bus ticket that gets you all the way south to Ho Chi Minh (Saigon). It has a standard set of...
Backpacking Tips
Some tips on backpacking
Travelers around the world enjoy seeing the sights and wonders
of different places with only a backpack for all the things they
need. Because they only have a pack on their backs, the
possibilities of new sightseeing and activity adventures are
limitless.
But of course, before you head for a faraway hiking adventure
with your backpack, you must make sure that you bring all the
things you need to put in your backpack. Below is a checklist
that...
Bald Eagles Arrive in Squamish BCConference Center (www.seatoskyhotel.com) on Highway 99 at Garibaldi Way. Excellent eagle viewing areas are only about a kilometer away. The hotel also offers discount ski packages to those traveling to ski or board at Whistler Blackcomb.
There are other good viewing areas in town, particularly along the river dykes at the end of Judd Road, and around the spawning channels between the Mamquam River and the Squamish Valley Golf and Country Club.
Directions:...
Balloon Flying in Thailand
Our trip to Thailand had been long awaited, originally planned
for the winter of 94/95. My wife Karin had bought the maps and
books and even packed; we were off. The balloon was ready at
Thunder and Colt with a heavy duty basket tailor made for hard
use overseas. And then they went bust. The delay meant that we
missed the relatively short window available for flying in
Thailand. So it was rainy old England for most of the winter and
a rethink of the plan for us....
