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Joan Larsen: Dipping Our Toes into Summer – the Dream that is Canada’s Vancouver Island
by Joan Larsen “Let the world go away” became our song this spring . . . I am sure we all understand the feeling this year. When summer arrived, we wanted to be “lost” in an idyllic destination that would feel as far from civilization as it possibly could. And yet, yet, it could […]
Joan Larsen’s Travel: Tales From Alaska’s Edge – Walking With Grizzlies
July 11, 2018
By Joan Larsen As each of us look back on the good times — the getaways of life — there are a few that we find have lodged in our hearts. They deserve, I believe, more than a backward look. With a sweltering season in view this summer – the like of which we have […]
Joan Larsen’s Travel: Pure Vacation Enchantment – Utah’s Red Rock Country
June 27, 2018
By Joan Larsen Have you ever turned a single bend in a road, finding yourself so stunned by a scene of such beauty that you have felt a rush to your heart . . . or felt tears rolling down your cheeks? The threaded road with its unexpected curves and pull-offs – pull-offs where […]
Joan Larsen Presents: To Melt the Heart – First Photos of the Most Loveable Brown Bears Ever Filmed
June 13, 2018
By Joan Larsen Dedicated to my long-time friends and fellow explorers, Arthur and Mary Clark. Arthur is a retired Air Force general, an aviator, and a veteran of World War II. He has traveled extensively, much of it in Alaska, Siberia and the Arctic. May I introduce you to Maria, the very becomingly […]
Joan Larsen’s Best Life-Changing Trip of 2018: The Rocky Mountaineer
May 30, 2018
By Joan Larsen The tantalizing call of “All aboard,” chimed by the conductor at Vancouver’s Pacific Central Station had us scurrying down the platform toward the sharply-uniformed train staff, waiting to warmly welcome us aboard “The Rocky Mountaineer”. Yes, we have always heard about “Classic Rail Journeys” but not in my wildest dreams did I […]
Joan Larsen’s Travel: Falling in Love With Fallingwater, America’s Most Extraordinary Private Home
May 23, 2018
By Joan Larsen Can a person really fall in love with a house? I have. . . and I want to share my discovery with you. It seems almost like a fairy tale: there once was a private home called Fallingwater, hidden in the forests of southwestern Pennsylvania, that even today I wish were mine. […]
Joan Larsen’s Australia at its Best: Climbing New Heights: Finding Sydney
May 9, 2018
By Joan Larsen How often do we get an opportunity to climb to the top of a bridge in the first place? Now, how often do you get to climb a bridge that is the national icon of one of the larger countries in our world? A bit afraid of heights? So am I. […]
Joan Larsen’s Travel Stories: A Toast With Chilean Red Wine
May 2, 2018
By Joan Larsen Get ready to fall in love with South America’s most wonderful country – CHILE! I feel like I have been carrying a secret for years now, keeping the most beautiful country in South America to myself. Chile – how can I tell you? I find it extraordinary – and so I find […]
Joan Larsen’s Travel: Living With Giraffes – An African Dream
April 25, 2018
By Joan Larsen I left Africa that first time, believing a journey into its wild places would be a one-time thing. I was so wrong. The animals – more than anything else – remained in my heart. They called me back — in those unlikely moments when we stop, looking back on life and the […]
Joan Larsen’s Southern California Dreaming – The Allures of Vacationing in Glorious San Diego
April 18, 2018
By Joan Larsen Spring is definitely in the air . . . and, if you are like me, you avoid the packed highways of summer travel, knowing that a far less crowded season awaits either Spring or Fall– with all the hidden delights that California seems to pull out of its sleeve for the […]
Joan Larsen’s Most Unforgettable Countries: Wildly Wonderful Norway
April 11, 2018
By Joan Larsen Life holds the most unexpected surprises, the forever memories, to those who are open to them. Isn’t that true? But, on this day of astonishing splendor that, truly, only a few countries in our world can offer, this journey — to the edge of the world that was Norway — had been […]
Joan Larsen Discovers a Ghost Island – A Look Back at the Indian Ocean’s Ross Island, Abandoned and Overtaken by Nature
April 4, 2018
By Joan Larsen My dream in life: chasing down the most remote islands on this earth. The small dots on any map are many; my determination has been great. Getting there has been an adventure. Once ashore, the fear of getting lost, falling into holes, being chased by creatures far larger than I – well, […]
Joan Larsen’s Glimpses of Paradise: the Amazing Sex Life of the Most Beautiful Birds in the World
March 21, 2018
By Joan Larsen The love lives of birds really hadn’t been one of my greatest interests in life. But on our expeditions to my favorite places in the southern hemisphere of our world – like Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and some pretty unknown islands that abound down there – we were guided down trails […]
Joan Larsen’s Most Breathtaking Places on Earth . . . Chilean Patagonia – The Journey of a Lifetime
March 14, 2018
By Joan Larsen So much of my life has been spent in the world’s most remote places, and often many of my fellow companions are the crème of the crop of the world’s most famous photographers – the ones vying for those National Geographic covers. They have climbed the highest peaks, photographed underwater, and been […]
Joan Larsen Walks on the Wild Side… The World’s Most Spectacular Footbridges
February 21, 2018
by Joan Larsen First things first: nobody has fallen off this scary looking bridge. . . and it is the only way to get to the other side as you are here to climb Mt. Nimbus – that gorgeous peak rising like a point just ahead. The Canadian Rockies – in the western part of […]
Wayne Ranney: The World’s Most Unique Natural Masterpiece – Exploring the Galapagos Islands
February 7, 2018
By Wayne Ranney Roughly 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, and slam-bang on the equator, lie Darwin’s “Enchanted Isles”, the Galapagos — a place of beauty, of wonder around every corner — and islands that I found to be like nowhere else in this world. You find yourself face-to-face with more fearless and more […]
Joan Larsen’s Wildest Adventures: Exploring Australia’s Untamed Wilderness
January 31, 2018
By Joan Larsen We were young and adventurous when this wilderness beckoned us. Crocodile Dundee walked in our footsteps sometime later… but we paved the way. For the most part, the roads in the Top End were not paved. The largest national park in Australia lies there, a “must-be-seen” wilderness called Kakadu… a journey to […]
Joan Larsen’s Travel: Don’t Look Down! In Photos — The World’s Scariest Hike
January 17, 2018
By Joan Larsen Its name – El Caminito del Rey (in English: The King’s Little Pathway) … makes it sounds like it would be a delight for a child. But, in fact, this walkway, built in 1905 and attached to the steep walls of El Chorro gorge in southern Spain’s Malaga province, became – much […]
Joan Larsen’ Favorite Getaway: California’s Carmel-By-The-Sea – Simply Unforgettable
January 10, 2018
By Joan Larsen Wading in the Pacific Ocean – as the setting sun’s last rays lit up the skies before sunset – was magical. The last surfer was way out, paddling his board toward shore in a lazy fashion. Only the few of us on the beach saw the whale not that far behind the […]
Joan Larsen’s Travel: Felines in Residence – the Secret World Beneath Russia’s Hermitage
January 3, 2018
by Joan Larsen St. Petersburg. . . Russia’s most wonderful city has drawn me back more than once. Home of the world-famous Hermitage Museum — just named the best museum in all of Europe (!) — is praise enough to have art lovers making a bee-line north. But – hidden far beneath the museum — […]
Joan Larsen Presents: 2018 – Reflections From the Mountain
December 27, 2017
By Joan Larsen As 2017 comes to a close, and as we perch a bit precariously on the edge of this New Year – we are still filled with hope as we always have been. But with a world in turmoil as it is, stirring our minds — a small family holiday getaway has done the trick, once again bringing us back […]
Joan Larsen’s Glimpse of Paradise: Spending Christmas in Antarctica
December 20, 2017
By Joan Larsen At this season, as another Christmas draws near, we find there are moments when we look back — back at a lifetime of memories of Christmas past . . . many times wishing they could be the simpler times we once had I speak for all of us, longing – I […]
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