by Linda Aksomitis | Jul 25, 2016
Amsterdam is a city of canals–in fact, this city in the Netherlands is sometimes called the “Venice of the North.” In 2010, three of these canals, which together form the Amsterdam canal belt, were added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites....
by Linda Aksomitis | Feb 27, 2016
Finding alligators in Louisiana in February can be difficult even on a day hitting 60 degrees, the average monthly high. My first visit to this warm winter destination, some fifteen years ago, the only alligator I saw was a foot-long little guy the tour guide had...
by Linda Aksomitis | Oct 12, 2015
Shot, stripped of his clothes and jewels, the first explorer of the Ohio River died a rather humiliating death–not at the hands of natives, but by his own crew. Who was he? The somewhat infamous Rene R. de la Salle, a Frenchman who’d immigrated to the...
by Linda Aksomitis | Sep 15, 2014
Swamp tours are the #1 thing to do when you visit South Louisiana! Imagine alligators lurking in the shadows, finding shade under Spanish moss covered cypress trees on the shore. Your covered pontoon tour boat glides by as one of these “live fossils” from...
by Linda Aksomitis | May 26, 2014
The Dead River provides one of Maine’s most exhilarating whitewater rafting adventures. Its 15 mile run starts out easy, but builds up to a momentum worthy of the river’s name! David and I were guests of Magic Falls Rafting Company for the whitewater Dead...
by Linda Aksomitis | Feb 7, 2014
What’s Boston Harbor most well known for? The Boston tea party of course! That day–December 16, 1773– more than 100 colonists dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into the Massachusetts Bay. It took them nearly three hours to finish the splash. However,...
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