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If your 4th of July holiday plans mean that you’ll be taking pictures of fireworks displays, you may want to take the weekend to study up on these photography tips: How to Photograph Fireworks.
There’s some other good instructions and tips in his archives as well.
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I’m not really a car trip person. I come to this conclusion honestly:
As a child, car trips with my father were a marathon drive session, interrupted by a short time spent doing something, and then the marathon drive continued.
I get carsick.
I don’t remember getting carsick as a child, but then I always remember having lots […]
If you’ll be in San Francisco next Thursday, here’s something that you may want to check out: “First Thursdays,” the city’s monthly art walk.
The First Thursday tradition started a couple of decades ago, as both a way to support the city’s art “scene” and to socialize. The galleries stay open late, usually till 8 pm, […]
If you still haven’t made a decision about whether to take off over the upcoming 4th of July weekend, your options get more limited with each passing moment.
Airline tickets are going to be pretty hard, if not impossible, to come by at this point. And if you can find them, they are likely to […]
On Sunday, a friend was passing through Seattle en route to the East Coast. All did not go according to plan, and combined with the weather problems in the east, we found ourselves with a time together to enjoy a great Seattle summer day.
Why is it that I have lots of ideas about what I’d like […]
After a hiatus last week, Talking Travel returns, with this week’s interview with Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei.
I love getting to know people who have varied backgrounds, and that brief description surely fits Hsien. She’s an epidemiologist, with special training in cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and kidney disease. She now lives with her family in London, working as a freelance writer and […]
Flight Attendants hate delays just as much as passengers. We, too, like to get home, or to our destination, on time every bit as much as everyone else. But if you travel often enough, you realize that it just isn’t going to happen all the time.
Unfortunately, delays are an inevitable part of travel. Whatever the […]
More of the Top Ten Lists from Travel+Leisure June 2006 edition, this time the Top Ten U.S. and Canadian Hotels for service:
Blackberry Farm (Walland, Tennessee)
Rusty Parrot Lodge & Spa (Jackson Hole, Wyoming)
The Peninsula (Beverly Hills, California)
Inn at Little Wshington (Washington, Virginia)
The Point (Saranac Lake, New York)
Four Seasons Hotel (Las Vegas, Nevada)
St. Regis Hotel (NYC)
Mansion on Turtle […]
Have you ever wanted to follow in Hemingway’s footsteps and run with the bulls through the streets of Pamplona?
I must admit to some romanticized notions about the annual event. However, every year in the reporting about the event, there are details about the injuries (and occasional death) of the foolish runners. The most common injury […]
As much as I love travel, there’s one thing that can top it. And that’s traveling with friends.
Every experience is different when shared through the eyes of another person.
That was my experience last week in Vancouver, British Columbia. I was flying with my dear friend, Anita, and her family joined us there to celebrate her […]
Travel information, tips, and destination suggestions from a Flight Attendant.
Written by Mary Jo Manzanares [email] for b5media.
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