When I returned, many friends and family asked a few questions about my trip (usually “where is your favorite place?”), which is impossible to describe in a few sound bites, but even more wanted to know “so…what’s next?” What could possibly follow the Best Year of My Life and ...
The NZ sun is deceptive. It might only be 70F, but the sun has an increased intensity due to the hole in the ozone layer. And didn’t I know it! After that first race I’d clearly been lulled into a false sense of security as a number of other runners, less affected by the sun...
with most hotels being booked out months ahead of time as domestic and foreign visitors flock to the city. The view from the wooden viewing platform of Kiyomizu - the largest and most impressive temple in the city built up a hill in the old town of Higashiyama – is magnificent. Come ear...
Hotels with great walks on the front doorstep are one thing. A hotel you have to walk several spectacularly scenic miles just to get to is something else again. There’s no road into Minam River Lodge, in Oregon’s 360,000-acre Eagle Cap Wilderness: guests are either flown in, or invi...