More Eco, Healthy and Voluntourism Travel Services

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Last summer I wrote about some great opportunities in healthy, green and volunteer travel.  In the past year there have been so many things that have popped both wonderful as well as traumatic (i.e. Haitian Earthquake) that have opened up so many doors to folks suffer from chronic wanderlust. The economy hasn’t been to kind [...]

Conscious Camping – Revisited

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So last summer I wrote about Conscious Camping, health and eco tips so that you can get the most out of your adventure without getting sick or leaving a ginormo carbon footprint. Be sure to check out that post for additional info after you’ve gone through this summer’s checklist ; ) I thought since I [...]

Green, Healthy and Volunteer Travel Adventures

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Who wouldn’t love to have their own, personal travel agent that customizes every detail from the destination all the way to your meals? Whether you are eco friendly, health conscious or want to do some good while you’re away, there are a variety of companies that can help you create the vacation of a lifetime. [...]

Conscious Camping

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Adhering to the summer theme, what’s more summer appropriate then camping? Whether you rough it, tent it, camper or rv it, you tend to not have all the comforts and accoutrement of home when you’re sleeping under the stars. Because of that is is very easy to fall into a rut of convenience store food, [...]

Succulent Spring Break

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The snow is melting and the sun is beginning to shine, Spring is here!!! It’s time to pull out the bathing suits and dust of the grills because summer is right around the corner. In the mean time, spring break will have to do ; ) Whether you’re one of the lucky ones that gets [...]

Braving Black Rock City

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It’s labor day weekend and how will you be saying goodbye to summer 2008? Well, there is this thing called Burning Man that we go to this time each year. It’s this week long event out on a dry lake bed in Nevada which for that week is called Black Rock City. For those in [...]

My Maasai Mara Experience

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Maasai Mara, Kenya, was one of the most incredible places I have ever had the good fortune to visit. Beautiful landscape and breathtaking animals roaming everywhere but the part that will always stay with me was the wonderful people I met. The Kenyans and the Maasais were hands down the kindest people I have ever [...]

Yummy Yosemite

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What can I say about Yosemite that you don’t already know but WOW!! It really is breathtaking and I wish we had had more time but I’m sure we will be back soon ; ) From the short time we spent there, I still squeezed in time for a meal and did some research for [...]

"Goodbye God, I’m Going to Bodie!!"

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That’s a direct quote from a little girl whose family was moving to the infamous and wicked mining town in the 1880′s. Now a genuine ghost town, Bodie, CA, is quite a step back into our nation’s nutty past. On our way back from Black Rock City (Burning Man), we stopped into this town frozen [...]