Wanderism Travel

* See The World By Train
Let’s face it, some things in life just defy description.
The Grand Canyon… awe inspiring, yes, but does the phrase do it justice…?
The birth of a child… life affirming, true, but isn’t it mind boggling just the same…?
The popularity of Glenn Beck… okay, well maybe that one does defy description.
All of [...]

Doug and I are always on the lookout for the unusual, the off-beat, even the strange when it comes to travel.
Seattle, for instance, has the Space Needle, the rockin’ EMP (Experience Music Project), Pike Place Market and enough quirky neighborhoods to keep even the most jaded traveler entertained for weeks. But what about Underground [...]

When most people think of heading out of Vancouver and down I-5 to Bellingham, they’re either focused on Seattle or have designs on cheap socks at the Bellis Fair Mall.
But there is a not-so-hidden gem of a destination, just off the interstate in Bellingham.
The American Museum of Radio and Electricity is located in the centre [...]

It looks like a baby monitor, but the beeping device that tour guide Dennis Zaburin clutches in his hand monitors radiation. The digits on the dosimeter’s display change rapidly, indicating rising and falling danger. Other than the beeps, our footsteps are the only sounds we hear, multiplied as they echo off the abandoned buildings that [...]

We’re all travelers, and whether we take the low cost packaged tour plan, or go via the rent-a-car-and-find-the-hotels-along-the-way route, we all like a little ‘posh’ every once in awhile. But the word ‘posh’ has never been associated with airline travel. Until now, that is.
The first new double-decker Airbus A380 was delivered to Australian [...]