Spring 2026 Issue

Spring Travel Ideas

Bennett Root, Jr.

Roadtrip to Death Valley

Roadtrip! My rallying cry for the better part of half a century, it was never so welcome as this past Monday when we completed our vaccinations and the National Parks started opening their sites. The Coronavirus had kept us home for almost a year. The world was just shutting down as we headed home from Alaska’s dog sleds

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Karen LeBlanc

Crafting a Unique Cultural Journey Through Ecuador

I’m 9,350 feet above sea level, surrounded by the Andes Mountains, and in a country at the center of the world, on the equator.  Ecuador spans approximately 109,000 square miles, roughly the size of Nevada. The small country with an outsized contribution to astronomy, cartography, and evolutionary science, ranks as

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Rich Grant

Road Tripping with Rod Serling Across the San Luis Valley

Many Twilight Zone episodes feature a road trip gone strange. A couple are driving along, make a turn and find themselves (as Rod Serling put it so magically) “traveling through another dimension — a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries

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Alison Abbott

Daffodils Welcome Springtime in Nantucket

Isolated off the coast of Cape Cod, shades of yellow blanket a small island 36 miles out to sea. More than three million Narcissuses have been planted throughout the 48 square miles of what many consider to be one of the most beautiful islands in North America. The annual Nantucket

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Melissa Adams

PHO REAL: How I Survived Breaking My Arm in Vietnam

Whoosh! Like most accidents, it happened in a nanosecond. Call it vanity if you like. Or just bad luck. Regardless of what inspired me to stand on a chair in a Hội An hotel room, here’s what led up to that fateful evening. In early January, about a month before

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Puerto Vallarta beach
Lois Alter Mark

5 Unexpected Reasons to Visit Puerto Vallarta

For most baby boomers, the mention of Puerto Vallarta conjures up images of Captain Stubing and Julie, the Cruise Director, on “The Love Boat.” The classic TV show, of which we all have fond memories, ran from 1977 to 1987, and made the destination a household name.

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Steve Rosenberg

Diving Cozumel

Like countless other divers, my first international warm-water scuba trip was to Cozumel, Mexico. In 1961, well-known underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau spent some time in Cozumel and fell in love with Palancar Reef, putting Cozumel on the map as the place to dive. The Mexican Island of Cozumel is only

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