Travel Articles: Kayaking

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Our trip to Antarctica aboard the Quark Ship Ocean Diamond.

This journal entry is an excerpt from my upcoming book about my travels through New Zealand. I spent nearly two months, June 7-July 27 of 2012 traveling through the North and South Islands with my brother. This particular excerpt is from a portion of the time we spent in beautiful Milford Sound.

In summary: best 6 days of my entire life was in the Galapagos.

Trip to Belize. I stayed at Hamanasi. It is a resort that is just outside of Hopkins. The place is very pretty. It has many beautiful flowers all over the property. Go check out their organic garden. They fix many of their meals with vegetables out of their own garden and they compost too. I stayed in one of the beachfront rooms. The view was …

5 day expedition in scenic Magdalena Bay on the Pacific coast of the Baja California peninsula. You get the chance to take part in a sea turtle conservation project recognized around the world as a model for community based conservation. Also you participate in 3 whale watching excursion.

Paddle through dense mangrove canals lush with wildlife and take part in a sea turtle conservation project recognized around the world as a model for community based conservation.

It was a great Ecuadorian rainforest kayaking adventure trip! And we learned: that a large black garbage bag makes a great raincoat in a pinch.That you keep your toes away from streaming ants.To bring extra clothing in small dry bags so that you can go to dinner in something other than your pajamas. . .That you are ALONE when you are alone in the …

Here is the ultimate South America adventure of a lifetime: a 12-day Antarctica Expedition cruise aboard the Professor Molchanov with a visit to the Ecocamp in Patagonia. To top it off - a visit to Buenos Aires and excursion to the beautiful Iguazu Falls. Are we missing anything?

Wild Costa Rica Tour

My husband and I do the Manco Multisport, which explores the Cusco area, including Machu Picchu, and then Lake Titicaca. It was incredible!

We embarked to the Spanish Virgin Islands on the Arabella. This was the most relaxing cruise we have ever had.

Corinthian II in a very special location

In summary, this was a month well spent. We cannot praise highly enough Adventure life for their assistance in putting all this together.

8 Day trip to Costa Rica -- Osa Peninsula and Pacuare River, with transitions in San Jose.

A Galápagos trip with my amiga mejor Davis, her family and friends, everyone with a Lexington, KY connection, this was a trip that we will not soon forget.