Now, I am trusting all of you to keep this as a little secret between the two of us. It is not publicised or advertised, but there is quite a treat for the unsuspecting near the northern Brazilian city of Natal. The beach in Pipa would be worth a visit in its own right. It…
If you’ve ever dreamed of being a rock star, here’s your chance. The Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown Hotel is offering Live Like a Rock Star packages that include tickets to the Rolling Stones concert in Vancouver, BC on Nov. 25, 2006. The Live Like a Rock Star package includes: Two floor seat tickets to see…
The newest member of the World’s Leading Hotels opened in Paris today at the fashionable address of the Champs-Elysees and Avenue George V. The Hôtel Fouquet’s Barrière offers all the best in fashion, luxury and culture that is so integral to living in Paris. There are 40 suites among its 107 rooms, with many amenities…
When Jimi Hendrix died in London in 1970, his father only had enough money to bury him with a modest headstone in the Greenwood Memorial Park in Renton, WA. By then Hendrix was truly a world citizen, but his father brought him home to rest in the Northwest of his birth. The Jimi Hendrix Memorial…
It was late 1972 and my old pal Kenny Liss was in Nairobi, Kenya celebrating the country’s “10th anniversary of independence. I’ll let him tell this story in his own words… “I was at a big soccer stadium where the celebration was progressing. Many of the tribes from around Kenya were performing for Jomo Kenyatta,…
Promoting itself with the creepy title of “13 REAL Haunted Places That Will Make Your Cry For Mommy,” the American Inventor Spot Web site just published this multi-page story about the scariest places on Earth. There are names you’ll recognize and names that may shock you. But all discuss things that go bump in the…
On our honeymoon, my wife and I stayed at the Palace Hotel in Port Townsend, WA. Built in 1889, the building has seen a lot of history. My wife was excited to stay there. The furniture and decorations in the rooms all evoke the Victorian era. The rates were reasonable and our room had a…
I’m on a red-eye flight from Washington D.C. to Charlotte, North Carolina. “Can the seats be any closer together?â€? I think to myself. Then, once settled in and slightly comfortable, the large sweaty man sitting next to me begins ordering vodka tonics as if the flight was his last. One by one, I watched as…
New contributor Elaine Sipos chimes in with a host of ghostly travel stories: 1) While staying at a prestigious hotel in New Orleans, I was quite annoyed to find that someone was repeatedly knocking on my door and upon answering no one would be there. I mentioned this to the hotel staff and they replied,…
Getting lost in a city of 1.5 million people can be a humbling experience. Especially if you’ve never been there. Even moreso if you don’t speak the language. It happened to me in Barcelona. As a first time visitor to Spain, Barcelona was our hub for a ten-day business-pleasure trip in 2002. Located on the…
Sometimes, when you’re on the road, your life can be threatened in ways you never imagined. More of my scariest travel moments: • Risking death by hitchhiking in Dunkirk, France: Landing in France at 1am after crossing the English Channel on a delayed ferry, my brother, two friends and I were picked up by an…
We’ve all had scary travel situations. We’ve been on planes that dropped thousands of feet or on boats that were sinking. But try this one on for size… I was scuba diving in Belize at The Great Blue Hole, a famous underwater cavern that begins at about 100 feet. After spending 12 minutes there, we…