Sifting Through Fact and Fantasy in Arizona’s Navajo Nation
affiliate program I’ve spotted the Camel and the Elephant and admired both Mittens, East and West. Yet I can’t stop glancing around for the ghost of that iconic cowboy, John Wayne. Surely the Duke must drift over these sandstone cliffs he helped make so famous in “Stagecoach,” “Fort Apache” and “She Wore A [...]
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Croatia’s Rab Island Gleams in the Adriatic
affiliate program It’s hard to imagine more frolicsome beachcombers than those darting through the waves on Croatia’s Lopar beaches. Not a care in the world, not a stitch on their bodies. Did you know? Adriatic Coast on Rab Island, Croatia. Betsa Marsh photo Rab Island was first settled by Illyrians, ancestors of modern Albanians, [...]
Keep Reading...Is Greenland Melting?
It’s impossible to travel to this vast land, 80 percent under ice, without thinking about rising temperatures and receding glaciers. Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and the University of Kansas have tracked more than twice the previously observed rate of melt and runoff: 53 cubic miles draining into the sea in [...]
Keep Reading...Warming Up to Cool, Cool Greenland
The air is so fresh it’s like an oxygen treatment. The sun, a light cure. And the solitude and silence? Stress detox. Greenland is an intervention for modern life.
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Splashing Around the Caribbean in the Turks and Caicos
Blue angelfish flash over the reef like neon lightning. Rock iguanas shimmy for shade under Silver Top Palms. Pet conchs Sally and Jerry uncurl out of their shells at the sound of their keeper’s voice.
It’s a bit of wild kingdom on the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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