Slipping Through the Moher Wind Wall

A curtain of wind and a raging ocean hundreds of feet below makes anyone take pause...

A new monthly feature article for June - read it here.

Get on Your Horse and Explore the World

Equitrekking TV Creates Online Channel Featuring Horses and Travel

Equitrekking.com features new streaming video updated weekly - Find out more here

Travel Story Contest – Submit Your Stories – Win Great Travel Prizes

www.travelandtransitions.com is a web portal for unconventional travel and cross-cultural experiences. Right now we are looking for your stories of how travel broadened your mind. Stories involving cross-cultural connections, learning experiences, unusual forms of travel and living/ studying / working/ volunteering abroad are also of great interest.

You can win some fabulous prizes including the following:

• A 2-week Sailing Adventure through the Greek Islands for two
• A 1-week vacation in a luxurious vacation condo in one of many international locations
• A 3-day/2-night getaway to Toronto, including museum tickets, a city tour and a culinary market tour
• A C$150 gift certificate from an outdoor equipment outfitter
• We also have a number of magazine prizes for honorable mentions.

For further details please visit http://www.travelandtransitions.com/contests_ts.htm.

The Traveler in Hawaii

The Traveler just got back from another visit to the Big Island of Hawaii. He's filed the following stories:

Getting Away as Far as Possible - Or at Least Practical
Turtles, Tourists, Signage, and The Man
Hiking in Volcanoes National Park - or - I Thought You Brought the Map
I Felt the Earth Move - And So Did the Wild Boar

Aloha!

First Time Travel to Europe

A quick guide for the first time traveler to Europe. Read this special report here.

Green Travel - Making Better Environmental Travel Choices

An informative article by Susanne Pacher:

We all hear the term “global warming” all the time. During recent months I have started to read travel stories how the permanent ice cap of Mount Kilimanjaro is melting, how ski resorts in the Alps are going to be closing permanently due to lack of snow fall, how glaciers are melting in the Arctic, how increasingly more frequent and severe weather disturbances are disrupting tourism, and on and on the stories go...

Read the full article.

Learn Photography this March in Bermuda

The next great workshop from my friends at the American Writers & Artists Institute.

I've attended and spoken at many of Lori's travel writing workshops and always come away meeting great new people and learning something new. If you're serious about travel writing and travel photography, you owe it to yourself to check out this Bermuda workshop.

• Learn from professional photographers the techniques they use to shoot pictures that sell for $150, $400, $600 -- and even higher.
• Get hands-on practice applying your new skills -- while you explore one of the world’s most exclusive islands.
• Discover how travel photographers create a need for their photos -- and double or even triple your photography income.
• Find out just how easy it is to turn your snapshots into cash, and enjoy the freedom, independence, and travel that freelance photography delivers.
• PLUS -- Learn all the ins-and-outs of researching and writing photo essays and guidebooks -- including hands-on experience interviewing executives and writing critiques of some of the most famous resorts in Bermuda.