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Sitting on the vibrant red rocking chair on the porch of my hotel room at Kennicott Glacier Lodge, I listened. The early morning calls of birds wa...
You've probably heard of Banff, Canada. But do you know about the other park that flanks its northwestern border? Jasper National Park is known as...
Hearing the gasps escape the mouth of a Backroads guest as they lay eyes on the iconic summit of Half Dome or the impossibly beautiful Yosemite Fa...
Game hunters in Africa originally coined the phrase "Big Five" to describe the five animals deemed hardest and most dangerous to hunt on foot: the...
Iceland is a land of stunningly diverse scenery, where you can pass from lush glacial meadows into barren volcanic deserts in the blink of an eye,...
Our friends, Mike and Kathi, broached the subject once again. "You guys really should think about coming with us on this Tuscany biking trip." As ...
Looking through the window of the bus that was driving me from the airport through town, I understood this trip was going to be very different. I ...
I raised my children in a blur. I was in my early twenties when they were born and divorced before they started school. I completed college, launc...
Lauran and I met on a school bus. She was wearing a propeller hat and fake glasses with tape on the bridge and rainbow suspenders to hold the outf...
Since very early in the Backroads days, we have run annual staff rides that gather our employees in one place for a multi-day adventure. These tri...
The one thing that has always attracted me to New Zealand--and what I continue to search for while I'm leading Backroads Trips here--is the feelin...
Chi: Our fearless guide. Four-foot-ten on a good day, eighty pounds, twenty-seven years old, mother of two. She's a Sapa trekking guide and woman ...