Each year my family and I have a get together where we set off to a remote destination. This year we opted for an African family safari: a five day camel trek in Kenya. This was the first time any…

One of the requirements of modern day life is to take periodic breaks and go on vacations which would break the monotony of life and relieve one from the daily grind of unforgiving itinerary. No wonder going on break is…

Some of my fondest childhood memories are of Dad piling us into the back of the old Ford and heading north on a road trip from Brisbane via Gladstone, Mackay, Townsville and eventually tropical Cairns. The enjoyment was not just…

Mount Kenya is the second highest point one can ever climb in Africa after Mount Kilimanjaro. At an altitude of 5199m, even though it sits 16km astride the equator, it has gleaming and eroded permanently snow-covered peaks visible for miles…

In the 1930s and 1940s, Swain County, North Carolina gave up the majority of its private land to the Federal Government for the creation of Fontana Lake and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Hundreds of people were forced to…