Steve Gillman is a long-time backpacker, and advocate of lightweight backpacking. His tips, photos, gear recommendations, and a free book can be found at .
The Best Travel Games Car travel games are a tradition wherever families take vacations or long trips by automobile. Long drives are always more tolerable with some diversion or entertainment, and reading might not be the best choice, at least for the driver. Why not try some games that everyone in the car can play?"Blue Car" Travel GamesThese are travel classics. Each person guesses how many blue cars will pass in the...... Similar Editorial : by Alden Jerry. | Source : Free Multiplayer Online War Games
Brainpower Games Anyone Can Play Brainpower games are those games which exercise your mental capacity. My personal favorite is Chess, but there are many others, some of which you probably already play or have played. Here is a look at a few of the more common ones and how they may help your mind.Crossword PuzzlesFor many years people have noticed that older folks who regularly did crosswords seemed to stay mentally sharper as...... Similar Editorial : by Sean Moronse. | Source : Free Multiplayer Online War Games
Financial Trouble Starts In Your Mind Blaming financial trouble on outside factors is the norm, but is it the truth? Sometimes. Unexpected things do happen, after all. On the other hand, some people manage to handle the unexpected without any real financial difficulty, right? What are they doing differently?To begin with, some people - even some with a low income - set aside money for the inevitable car repair or visit to the doctor....... Similar Editorial : by Margaret Paul, Ph.D.. | Source : Marketing Consumers
Write A Poem In Ten Minutes One, two, ...?Did you say or think three when you saw the above? If not, you certainly would when I asked you to fill in the blank. Your mind is a powerful machine that recognises or creates patterns. To make this work for you as a poet, you simply have to lay out the materials in an implied pattern, and let your mind do its thing. The "materials," in this case, of course, are words or ideas. So...... Similar Editorial : by David Leonhardt. | Source : Recent Newspaper Articles
America - Love It Or Leave It? You have probably seen the bumper stickers that say, "America - Love It Or Leave It." Most polite people won't put it that bluntly, but many share the sentiment. They think that if a person doesn't like the system here, they have no right to be here.What an ignorant and hateful idea! To show what this is really saying, let's consider for a moment a man who doesn't like the system in any country on...... Similar Editorial : by Liron Rose. | Source : Match Dating Single
Silverton, Colorado - Gunfights, Mountains And A Train Silverton Colorado is one of those little mountain towns that you have to spend some time in to really enjoy. You'll love the scenery if you come by way of the Durango-Silverton Narrow Gage Railway. The canyons and mountains you'll go through, and the sheer drops to the river below are breathtaking. But the train stops in Silverton for just a couple hours before returning to Durango, and if you...... Source : Alabama Travel
Lone Pine California Lone Pine, California doesn't look like much at first. It's a dusty desert town of a few thousand, on highway 395, on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevadas. There might still be only one traffic light. So what makes it a great vacation destination?The Lone Pine Film FestivalHere are some of the movies filmed in this part of California: Gunga Din, How The West Was Won, Star Trek, Tremors,...... Similar Editorial : by Kevin Bishop. | Source : Atlanta Georgia Trip
Stalking Aligators In Florida Alligators were the furthest thing from our minds as my wife Ana and I traveled along the coast of northern Florida. We had paid $23 to camp in our conversion van at a beautiful state park on the beach the night before. In the morning we saw a dolphin swimming near shore. Then we heard we could camp for free at the isolated campgrounds which dotted the Apalachicola National Forest. Our frugality...... Similar Editorial : by Jolana Klobouk. | Source : Boston Tour Tickets
Ecuador: One Month, $1000 Including Airfare On my first trip to Ecuador I discovered that the official currency of is the U.S. Dollar. A nice surprize, since I thought I'd have to find a place to exchange money at midnight in Quito. Not only could I use the dollar bills in my pocket, but just one of them would buy a three-course lunch at a clean restaurant. I fell in love with Ecuador immediately. I fell in love with my wife Ana a few days...... Similar Editorial : by Dixie Davey. | Source : South America Travel Packages
Colorado Blizzard - A True Story Our first Colorado blizzard: December 20, 2006. We were driving to Denver to pick up my wife's grandmother Luisa, who was coming from Ecuador to visit. The windshield washers stopped working, and the snow started falling. The two-hour trip became four hours as our little Chevy Cavalier slid down the freeway while I squinted to see through the one clean spot in the glass - a little taste of things...... Similar Editorial : by Robert. | Source : Holidays In Florida
Falling In Love In Ecuador Quito, EcuadorI loved Quito, the capital of Ecuador. Centro Del Mundo, the hostel where I stayed the first few days, cost $4 per night, including breakfast. The walls had maps and all the information I needed on them. There were travelers from fourteen countries there during my stay.I took a tour to the volcano Cotapaxi, and hiked up to the glaciers with three others, from Israel, France and...... Similar Editorial : by Dixie Davey. | Source : South America Luxury Travel
Arrowheads And Rock Hunting In Arizona Then we met Felix, an old Mayan Indian living in an old RV. After sharing meals and campfires for a week, he took us into the desert to show us ancient metates (grain-grinding stones) and arrowheads. We also found hundreds of beautiful rocks of every type, including Apache Tears, Fire Agate, and various quartzes.Irina, a nineteen-year-old "rainbow kid," who had been living in her van for months,...... Similar Editorial : by Albert Bor. | Source : Travel Agencies In Florida
Michigan Outdoors - Hidden Places In Michigan, being outdoors can mean relaxing on a sandy beach or getting lost in the wilderness. One of the hidden places described below will let you do both. Here are three places that you haven't seen in magazine articles and guide books.Michigan Outdoors - RiversYou can float the Manistee River from Baxter Bridge (the next crossing down from Hwy 131) north of Cadillac, all day without seeing...... Similar Editorial : by James Brown. | Source : Florida Vacation Homes Rentals
Our Top Cheap Travel Destination: Anaconda, Montana Looking for cheap travel destinations is a habit we developed during leaner times. Necessary or not, it still means being able to do more for the money. We also continually discover that the cheaper places can be just as much fun. Anaconda, Montana is a great example of this.When we first drove into Anaconda in 2002, we loved this little mountain town immediately. We bought a nice house the next...... Similar Editorial : by Jay Ellenby. | Source : Hawaii Vacation Resorts
Michigan Backpacking - Secret Locations In Michigan, backpacking usually consists of hiking the trails of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, or the Porcupine Mountains State Park, or The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park. All of these are well worth doing, by the way. But what if you want to really get away from the crowds? Here are three places to try where you'll likely be backpacking alone.Backpacking Isolated IslandsYou'll need...... Similar Editorial : by Tanja Kelly. | Source : Things To Do In Hawaii
