They say traveling to Norway is expensive, but don’t believe it. Check out our Norway travel tips for seniors. There’s no need to ignore the distant call of train travel through snow-covered mountains or sailing the glacial Norwegian fjords if you have a few tips, the most important being the time of year. Early November…
Just beyond Banff and Lake Louise your glass-domed train glides passed the sign, The Continental Divide. Look around. You’re surrounded by some of the most spectacular scenery on the planet. These are the wilds of the Canadian Rockies, with its rugged snow-covered peaks and deep canyons, moose, elk and bear, lakes both green as emeralds…
Mornings were cool. Dry. And oddly quiet. We’d heard hippos and baboons at night, maybe hyenas, too, and a bunch of “Who knows?” sounds. Here in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve on the Kenya-Tanzania border, it could be an elephant, rhino, even lion. Whatever, it was extraordinary. And that’s exactly why we’d come to Africa….
“Galveston, oh Galveston. I can hear your sea winds blowing…” as the words of Glen Campbell’s song goes… “on the beach where we used to roam.” And the beach has been tied totally to Galveston’s history. You may not know this but Galveston is an island. It’s actually a barrier island, about 45 miles southeast…
Another excursion Vacation by Rails has is their tours to Yellowstone & Glacier. This article will focus on Glacier National Park (one of my favorite parks) since I discussed Yellowstone in depth in previous articles. Besides Amtrak, who is now starting their own escorted tours this year, only one other tour company offers a tour…
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