by adventuretoward | Aug 14, 2015 | Adventuring, Canada, New Brunswick, Stories
This article on Machias Seal Island was published in Islands magazine. It won a prestigious Lowell Thomas Gold Award for Best Short Travel Article in 2016. I’m a traitor, I realize ruefully, as the Day’s Catch muscles through choppy waters. And caught up in...
by adventuretoward | Dec 11, 2010 | Adventuring, Asia, Stories, Thailand
This popular elephant farm experience allows you to bathe, feed and care for an elephant for one day. Read More on the Star...
by adventuretoward | Feb 19, 2007 | Adventuring, Asia, South Korea, Stories
Clutching our square, padded floor mats, we file into one of Beomeosa Temple’s Buddha halls, then set down the mats in neat rows off to the side of the main chamber. Several dozen of the temple’s 150 monks will soon be entering the hall for their evening worship...
by adventuretoward | Dec 19, 2002 | Adventuring, Stories, United States, Wisconsin
An acrid smell wafts up from the glass in front of me. I’ve ordered a shot of Angostura bitters, the drink at Nelsen’s Hall Bitters Pub. Now, I have to drink it. All eyes are on me as I toss the stuff down and gulp the beer chaser. I grin, and the table...
by adventuretoward | Nov 14, 2011 | Adventuring, New Zealand, Stories
What I really want to do here in Auckland is the SkyJump, not the Bungy Jump. In the Sky Jump, you’re tied securely into a large harness that’s connected to a wire, then dropped off the Sky Tower, where you zip downward for 11 seconds before landing...
by adventuretoward | Dec 13, 2018 | Adventuring, Colorado, Quebec, Stories, United States
What is it like to hike the 310-mile Superior Hiking Trail, which hugs Minnesota’s North Shore? I hiked the trail in June 2018, accompanied by a photographer from the Minneapolis Star Tribune. I created vlogs nightly, then wrote a 7-part series outlining my...