Once you get south of the white sand, bottomless drinks and sunburns of the all-inclusives in Montego Bay, Jamaica, you’re surrounded by rolling hills covered in lush green foliage. Of this Nassau Valley landscape in St. Elizabeth, 11,000 acres belongs to Appleton Estate, makers of rum. The Estate is a solid day trip, two and […]
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The crater good: New Zealand’s volcano-friendly White Island
Rotorua is alive, by which I mean the earth beneath one’s feet there is ever-shifting. And not in that erosion-over-the-course-of-a-million-years way, but in a come-back-in-four-monthsand-it-will be different way. The city in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand’s North Island, a three-hour drive south from Auckland, is a hub of activity. Dubbed the country’s […]
Exotic Canada: Dinosaur hunting in Alberta
“Hi, I’d like to go inside the dinosaur.” As soon as I’d said it, I knew it didn’t sound right. The mortified teenage boy behind the admissions counter knew it didn’t sound right, either, but there was no other way to put it — I wanted to climb the 106 steps inside the World’s Largest […]