Rafting Super Value with OARS

Last year I took one of the most exhilarating and fulfilling adventures of my life rafting with OARS on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho. I’ve just learned that OARS is offering s special $500 per person discount on this amazing trip, and I wanted to pass this news along immediately. This [...]

Geo Ex Announces Special Savings

Geographic Expeditions almost never offers special fares of any kind, so it’s big news that the company has just announced an unprecedented series of special savings on selected fall and winter trips to Bhutan, Mount Kilimanjaro, the Galapagos, India, Laos, Vietnam, and China. There are some truly extraordinary opportunities here, with savings of more than [...]

King Tut Returns to San Francisco!

More than 3,000 years after his reign, and 30 years after the original exhibition opened in San Francisco, Tutankhamun, ancient Egypt’s celebrated “boy king,” returns to the de Young Museum. Beginning today, the de Young presents Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, a glorious exhibition of over 130 outstanding works from the tomb of Tutankhamun, [...]

Fall Explorations in Utah with Off the Beaten Path

As the good folks at Off the Beaten Path write in a compelling new release:
“Fall is a wonderful ’soft shoulder’ season to extend that delicious summer footloose feeling. It also has the added benefit of fewer fellow travelers on the roads and trails. Kids have gone back to school, their parents have spent up vacation days, [...]

Backroads Announces Holiday Savings

The prescient folks at Backroads are thinking ahead. They know that holiday trips tend to sell out early, and they know that now is an excellent time to book to make sure you get exactly the holiday vacation you want. To inspire you even further, they’ve just announced some newsworthy savings on a number of [...]

Old Japan in Modern San Francisco

Here’s one exhibition you must see: Lords of the Samurai, at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, opening today and running through Sept. 20.
As the curator writes on the exhibition’s excellent web site: “The samurai culture and code of conduct, bushido, have long captivated the imaginations and aspirations of young and old in the Western [...]