OLD DUDE SKIERS - THERE ARE SENIORS AMONG US
by Yvette Cardozo

DAYS AND DAZE IN RUSSIA - Riding the Trans-Siberian Railway Part 1
by Lee Juillerat

THE TALE OF AN INSPIRED TRAVELER
by Vicki Hoefling Andersen

When you talk about senior skiers, especially at Silver Star Mountain in British Columbia’s interior, you’re not talking about somebody mincing their way down a green run.

Arriving early in Vladivostok paid dividends. At Primorsky Safari Park we walked along fenced catwalks near, appropriately, freely pacing Amur tigers and leopards, elk, Sitka deer and more.

For Boulder resident Jeff Blumenfeld, the travel bug began with a cross-country bus trip and has led him to the tallest mountains, driest deserts, snowiest landscapes, and most remote outposts around the globe.

THE JOY OF CYCLING
by Steve Giordano

FROM TUNISIA’S MOUNTAIN OASES TO ITS SAHARAN SAND DUNES - IT’S ALL ADVENTURE
by Habeeb Salloum, M.S.M.

Did you ever stop to think that the passenger on a bicycle is also the engine? H.G. Wells said, "When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race."

I admit, when I told my teenagers we were visiting the museum, they protested. "Can't we do … something else?" But after a few minutes at the Museum of Natural Science, they grew strangely quiet.

“But did we not come to see oases and desert?” Jane, a lady in our group asked. Abd al-Fatah smiled, “We will glory for a while in seducing-decadence, before tackling mountains and deserts.”

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