Year: 2022

Travel Inspiration: Egypt. Cairo and time on the Nile.

Travel Inspiration: Egypt. Cairo and time on the Nile.

Imagine this: the Great Pyramids at Giza, built before the wheel had been invented. The Avenue of the Sphinxes at Luxor Temple. The Cairo church where Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus paused to rest after fleeing from King Herod. Each visit on your Egyptian journey—Cairo, Giza, Memphis, Sakkara, the Nile, Luxor, and Aswan—opens a [...]
Travel Inspiration: New Zealand. A South Pacific Switzerland?

Travel Inspiration: New Zealand. A South Pacific Switzerland?

Did you know New Zealand was the last large habitable landmass to be settled by humans? Nestled in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, this island country is composed of two main chunks of terra firma conveniently named North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) and South Island (Te Waipounamu). Along with the 700 smaller islands dotting the surrounding seas, the varied topography [...]
Travel Inspiration: Captain Cook’s Rediscovered Australia

Travel Inspiration: Captain Cook’s Rediscovered Australia

No matter how much Australia might resemble the last European country you’ve visited, this giant of an island-continent is worlds apart from anywhere else you’ve been. Here the seasons are reversed, trees shed their bark rather than their leaves, and strange beasts—not just kangaroos, but bandicoots, wombats, and Tasmanian devils—roam the mysterious terrain. But toss [...]