Author Archives: The Intentional Traveler

In My Days

Our website hosting service regularly offers up a number of questions to consider and post on our sites. My approach to this website has been to offer up useful information without adding personal commentary and I tend to write in the third person. I’m trying to change and this months challenge subject asks: What majorContinue reading “In My Days”

South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse

People love statues from high art like Michelangelo’s David to ancient wonders like the Sphinx in Egypt that measures 66 feet standing above the desert floor. There’s Christ the Redeemer in Rio a tall statue standing high above the city at 2,453 feet above sea level. It seems if you are looking to really getContinue reading “South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse”

Cruising Antarctica

A Trip To The End Of The Earth Occupying a land area about the size of the United States and Mexico combined, Antarctica is the highest, driest, coldest, windiest and brightest place on Earth. It is completely covered by a layer of ice that averages more than one mile thick, but is nearly three milesContinue reading “Cruising Antarctica”

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The World’s Best Hot Dogs

As American as hot dogs and apple pie is how the expression goes but here are some great hot dogs you have to leave the United States to get. There was a joke among business flyers years ago about the South. “If you die in the South you cannot go to Heaven without first connectingContinue reading “The World’s Best Hot Dogs”

A Great Georgia Wine Drive

Looking for an opportunity to see some great scenery and sample some really good American wines? Try a few days driving in the north Georgia mountains, hiking and visiting wineries. Georgia wines were a real pleasant surprise. In general, their quality is very good and the wineries are fun to visit. Before you go it’sContinue reading “A Great Georgia Wine Drive”