by Linda Aksomitis
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
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
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
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
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
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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History of Transportation Museum – Bush Bikes to Studebakers
Keeping the Tradition of the English Pub Alive with Taps & Fine Whiskies
Weekend Getaways: 10 Colorful Outdoor Things to Do in Charlotte, NC, This Fall
Flintlock Rifles to Gunpowder to Buffalo Robes: Museum of the Fur Trade
Visit Québec for Cycling Adventures — Extreme Bike Rides to a World-class Race
Take a Raft or Kayak on a Whitewater Center Rafting Adventure
Yukon Transportation Museum: Machines From a Sno-Train to a Monoplane
Auschwitz Concentration Camp & Birkenau: Historic Places Near Krakow Poland
Scotts Bluff National Monument: Historic Places on the Oregon Trail
EAA Aviation Museum — 200+ Historic Airplanes in Oshkosh, WI