Travel video: Jean Lafitte National Park, Louisiana
April 5, 2010 by Craig Guillot
Filed under From the Desk
The Barataria Preserve of the Jean Lafitte National Park just outside of New Orleans, La., features more than 20,000 acres of bayous, swamps and marshes with alligators, nutrias and more than 300 species of birds. There’s no better way to get up and close with the local wildlife than by talking a walk down the [...]
5 interesting travel blog posts
March 15, 2010 by Craig Guillot
Filed under From the Desk, Uncategorized
Here are 5 interesting travel blog posts we found this week:
Everything you need to know about agritourism
Bootsnall.com
At its most basic level, agritourism is a style of travel that takes place on a farm or ranch and usually offers the opportunity to help with on-site farming or ranching tasks during the visit. It entails [...]
Canoeing the Mississippi River
December 21, 2009 by Craig Guillot
Filed under From the Desk
Dubbed a “modern-day Huck Finn,” Neal Moore spent six months canoeing the entire length of the Mississippi River from Lake Itasca, Minnesota to New Orleans. His mission was not only to document his canoe journey but also report on and participate in positive and uplifting stories of American communities along the way.
Paddling the entire length [...]
Big Bend: America’s Last Frontier
December 4, 2009 by Craig Guillot
Filed under Feature Articles, Featured, Sweatin' It
West Texas has often been considered one of America’s last frontiers. As a no-man’s land of cacti, tarantulas, cow skulls and rattlesnakes, it’s a place where you can drive for days without seeing more than a half dozen cars and pitch a tent on side the road for a quiet night of sleep. There is [...]
Heartpounding luxury travel adventures
November 24, 2009 by Craig Guillot
Filed under From the Desk
Check out this MSNBC article for some of the world’s most heart-pounding luxury travel adventures. Take a ride on an open cockpit race boat at speeds of up to more than 100 miles per hour, learn how to drive an formula car, take a parachute jump from the cruising altitude of a commercial airliner or [...]
5 totally badass travel experiences
November 18, 2009 by Craig Guillot
Filed under From the Desk
Everyone likes to get a little off-the-beaten-path once in a while and if you look around enough, you’ll find the world is full of crazy experiences. Sometimes you have to do little more than hop on a plane, plop down some cash and get down to business.
Whether you’re looking for a taste of torture, want [...]
Nicaragua’s New Revolution
November 3, 2009 by Craig Guillot
Filed under Feature Articles, Featured, Sweatin' It
Having long since shed its turbulent past, Nicaragua is a cultural and ecotourism gem that is quickly becoming the next hot spot in Central America.
