STEAM OVER GLASS AT THE GRAND CANYON RAILWAY,by Ted & Sylvia Blishak  The 65-mile-long rail journey from the South Rim back to Williams is all out of sight of the highway, which gives passengers the pleasant illusion that the National Park is not the crowded-highway and parking-lot nightmare that visitors by automobile report. ...more

HONOLULU, HAWAII: The Ultimate Relaxation with Plenty of Adventure, by Larry Turner 
This was my first Honolulu experience...and boy was it a nice surprise! I always viewed it as a place that did not fit my spirit with too many tourists (like myself) depicted in photos crowded on Waikiki Beach...something which I eschew in favor of more solitary places.....more

ANCIENT CITIES OF THE RÍO BEC, MEXICO, PART 2, by Vicki Hoefling Andersen
Distinctive features such as monster-mouth doorways, open relief ornamentation covering buildings top to bottom, rounded corners, and solid masonry towers crowned by fake temples has bestowed the name Río Bec on an entire style of Maya architecture....more

HIKING ALBERTA'S SKYLINE TRAIL, by Lee Juillerat
The Skyline Trail gets its name from a nearly 3-mile section of trail northwest of the Notch along a crest that offers 360-degree views of Mt. Edith Cavell, Mt. Robson and Jasper park. Where it drops and switchbacks toward Centre Lake and the basin floor, we passed through nonplussed bighorn sheep that only blinked as we paused long enough for photos....more

CHURCHILL WINTER ADVENTURES by Yvette Cardozo
For us, the best came (as it always seems to) at 1 a.m. when the green glow morphed into two arcs, like green rainbows, which then sent spiked fingers that turned into a porous fan that covered the ENTIRE sky. It was a pulsing, folding curtain with white hot knots that melted and twisted like something alive. We yelled. We screamed. A few of us cried....more