We (‘Spice’ and ‘Magellan’) are a newly retired couple with a passion for active independent travel. One of our first trips after turning 65 was to Spain, which explains its melodious word for retirees—jubilados—in our tagline. What will you get by taking vicarious trips with us? Ideas, insight and inspiration.
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Don’t take our word for it. Beginning in 1935, German-born Josef Albers, one of the most influential twentieth-century artists and teachers, travelled to Mexico—fourteen times.
A few weeks ago, Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism sent me this to my inbox: Of all the things that make Newfoundland and Labrador one of
When we got off the chairlift at Rifugio Scoiattoli in the Dolomites, we weren’t aware that its name translates to “Squirrels Refuge.” We were there
It happened forty-nine years ago today, in the cruelest month of the year, the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, a maritime tragedy surpassed in notoriety
Graffti inserts itself like the blade of a knife between creation and destruction, between publicity and furtiveness, between word and image, cartoon, icon, and hieroglyph.
Tighten your stirrups for the wild ride through the legendary story of the Gang Ranch in British Columbia’s Cariboo Chilcotin where Magellan and I drove
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