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Category: (Good Travel)
... there are places like Quepos and Jacó, which have the charm of Miami Beach, where you are under constant assault by timeshare salesmen, but Costa Rica is still a very green country. It rewards sustainable ...Created on 22 April 2013 -
Category: (People We've Met)
... Ballarat was called "The Golden City." We found this gentleman at a place near Ballarat called Sovereign Hill, which is an award-winning re-creation of life in Australia's gold country. Not very ...Created on 20 April 2013 -
Category: (Uncategorised)
... a national or resident of Cuba, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, North Korea, Iran, Syria, or any other country to which the United States has embargoed goods; or (2) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list ...Created on 26 March 2013 -
Category: (Connected Traveler Technology Showcase)
... going on all around you. I live Sonoma in the California Wine Country. There is a cow pasture two blocks from where I live and using apps such as Junaio and Layar, I am able to aim my phone in any direction ...Created on 22 January 2013 -
Category: (US/Canada)
Photo: Russ Johnson Romantic nights this summer in Jack London State Park in the Valley of the Moon in Sonoma County, California. The Transcendence Theatre Company, comprised of many Broadway veterans, ...Created on 25 July 2012 -
Category: (Wine Country)
Photo: Russ Johnson Romantic nights this summer in Jack London State Park in the Valley of the Moon in Sonoma County, California. The Transcendence Theatre Company, comprised of many Broadway veterans, ...Created on 25 July 2012 -
Category: (Holiday)
Photo (c) 2012 Russell Johnson The 4th of July is a big deal in Sonoma, California, a tourist attraction that swells this town of ten thousand in California's wine country to bursting. This year it ...Created on 06 July 2012 -
Category: (Asia)
... by her supporters around the world and Facebook is quickly becoming part of the mindset in this country once called Burma.Even last year, before the government blocked opposition web sites and critical ...Created on 17 May 2012 -
Category: (Connected Traveler Technology Showcase)
There's no doubt that travelers are using technology more than ever - from on-board WiFi on cross-country flights to apps that offer tips about the latest restaurants and attractions in a new city. So ...Created on 13 March 2012 -
Category: (Wine Country)
After spending most of my life as either a city dweller or a mountain hermit, I have now opted for the in-between, the idyl of small town life in a tourist destination in California's Wine Country. ...Created on 22 November 2011 -
Category: (Video)
... the finest remaining country estates of the early 20th century and is known for its magnificent but peaceful gardens, with some 500 types of roses and 200 kinds of camelias. While the valleys of Sonoma ...Created on 05 May 2011 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... heart-rending journey through history: seeing a child passed through the barbed wire at Kosovo or the iconic frame of a Viet Cong prisoner being executed in Saigon as American troops leave the country. ...Created on 11 February 2010 -
Category: (Asia)
... copy of the Las Vegas version down to the parking garage, which was said to have had more parking spaces than there were cars in the entire country. They corrected that folly by tearing the garage down ...Created on 26 January 2010 -
Category: (US/Canada)
Ron Paul Country: Mongolia in California by Russell Johnson California is, for the most part, Mongolia. Erase the coasts and the canals that suck water from the north to feed ...Created on 14 January 2008 -
Category: (Video)
... that are often shrouded in smog. A free audio tour gives good explanations of what you are looking at. Rural Taiwan is beautiful, mountainous country. Taipei, however, suffers from the hodgepodge of construction ...Created on 10 September 2007 -
Category: (Wine Country)
... in the Carneros district, at the southern edge of Calfornia’s Napa Valley, in 1960. Its hilliness and sparse development makes it one of California wine country’s most scenic regions. He began planting ...Created on 18 October 2006 -
Category: (Asia)
... and economically by that tragedy. photos (c) russell johnson Bali is a mishmosh of Hindu and animist traditions -- an island in an otherwise Muslim country -- and the monkey dance has elements ...Created on 03 October 2006 -
Category: (Good Travel)
... close friends in the country you are visiting, it is mostly pointless to go antiquing. Most places in the world were and continue to be pillaged of their antique treasures. If an object is real, it has ...Created on 18 September 2006 -
Category: (Pacific)
... tropical rainforests, where the rain and mists are constant, to dry cowboy country, the home of the Paniolo, the Hawaiian cowboy. Here, tough guys wear leis. Parker Ranch is the largest privately owned ...Created on 10 August 2006