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Seventeen months after I had to cancel my REI hiking trip to Death Valley due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was finally going on vacation!!  Back in May 2021, Colin mentioned that he had...

In June 2019 I had the opportunity to attend a conference in Basel, Switzerland for 5 days. One of the items on my “bucket list” was to hike the Tour Du Mont Blanc which is a popular trekking tour that...

In 2015 our family of 4 embarked on a 7 day, 188 mile journey thru the Grand Canyon encountering 67 white water rapids with Wilderness River Adventures.  This trip would most likely be our last “family”...

In September of 2010 I took my parents on a 9 day adventure to the Southwestern states of Utah and Arizona, my first time visiting this area of the country.  Thirty years earlier they took me on my...