Big Bend is home to a few remarkable communities: Marathon, Study Butte, Terlingua Ghost Town, Lajitas, and Big Bend National Park. Communities offer services, amenities, and entertainment. Accommodations run the range from convenient and comfortable to resort luxury. A variety of guided outdoor activities are available. Big Bend is a diverse region with endless possibilities…
A journalist and film producer, winner of more than sixty writing and photography awards, including two Lowell Thomas Gold Medals and a Silver, the 2014 Bill Muster Gold Medal for Best Cultural Photo, the 2011 Bill Muster Photo Gold Medal for her Single Subject Portfolio on Abu Dhabi and was named Pacific Asia Travel Association…
Explore Fairbanks is a non-profit destination marketing and management organization (DMMO) with the mission to be an economic driver in the Fairbanks region by marketing to potential visitors and optimizing the visitor experience. Explore Fairbanks markets Fairbanks as a year-round destination by promoting local events, attractions, and activities to independent travelers, group tour operators, travel…
I’m fortunate to have worked as a journalist in 50 states, Cuba, Africa, Europe, Central America, and South America. Originally strictly a photojournalist, I’ve photographed news, sports, and political figures throughout my career. I’ve been a staff photographer for United Press International wire service and under contract for Reuters News Agency and the former Sigma…
Gwen Pratesi is a James Beard Foundation Award Finalist in Journalism and award-winning travel writer. She is the author and owner of PratesiLiving.com with her husband, coauthor of Southern Heat, and co-owner of On the Road Culinary Adventures, a culinary travel business. She is a contributor to the Travel section of U.S. News & World…
Centrally located in the SE, Huntsville has truly earned the nickname Rocket City, USA! Train like an astronaut at U.S. Space Camp and visit Earth’s largest space museum, the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. If green space is more to your liking, come to the Huntsville Botanical Garden, home to the nation’s largest open-air butterfly…
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a journalism degree, I spent 35 years as a healthcare communications professional, retiring eight years ago. I immediately began exploring the great outdoors full-time, continuing my love of enjoying nature and our national parks and wildlife refuges. I write for and contribute photography to www.WanderingRoseTravels.com. And as…
I am a travel writer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and the blogger behind Destinations Detours and Dreams. I love to explore wherever I am with a particular interest in culture, history, nature, art, architecture, and food. Every place is full of stories and I love to tell those stories. 1. What got you into travel…
Something we hear time and again from first-time visitors to Birmingham is that they never realized the beauty of the area. With the foothills of the Appalachians as a dramatic backdrop, the city is laid out on a series of lush rolling hills, with woodland-covered neighborhoods just minutes from downtown. That this Southern city has…
A penchant for travel and languages led me on for thirty years in a variety of careers – winning hearts and minds in and out of uniform military, federal, and freelance. Now exclusively freelance. I’m fluent in German and English, with survival skills in French, Haitian Creole, Russian, Standard Arabic, Swahili, Turkish and Samoan. Lately…