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ADVENTURES

ADVENTURE CRUISES, TOURING

Titans of Tall - I meet the Chicago Line cruise boat on the North Pier Docks at River East Plaza, the oldest building on the river, and at only three stories, certainly not the giant that we will be photographing on the 90 minute summer time cruise. Cruises run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily; be sure to distinguish if you are taking an architectural river cruise or a historical lake cruise by checking www.chicagoline.com

Gator Girl Goes Wild - Many years ago I had a close encounter of the creepy kind with a lake full of crocodiles. I swore I would not repeat the experience. And for over 25 years the crocs wallowed in their brine while I wallowed in my own habitat far, far away. This delightful state of being lasted until my editor saw a story I wrote about crocodiles. He decided that the experience somehow qualified me to do a story on gator hunting. Which is how I found myself in Central Florida for a simulated gator hunt with Captain Phil Walters of http://www.GatorGuides.com

BARNSTORMING, SOARING, GLIDING, AIR SHOWS

Vintage Warbirds at Evergreen Aviation Museum - The Spruce Goose only flew once by it famous designer and pilot, Howard Hughes; visit the museum for glimpses of WWII warbirds, spy planes, stare in awe at the Goose.

Zero G Sky Sailors - Soaring or Gliding? You will find out the difference in this feature aloft and alone above the California high desert, as your spirit takes wings in a real zero G experience that will leave you exhilerated and dizzy for more.

Top Gun Meets Thunder Road - It's Fleetweek in San Diego. Hot rods, hot jets, and a great time for all. Watch the U.S. Navy Blue Angels perform at Miramar Air Station, attend the naval events around the Bay, and sail on the Star of India.

It's An Aviation Nation - The Nellis Air Show is one of the top aerobatic events in the U.S. See a replica of the Wright Flier. View vintage planes from World War II, and climb aboard a Warthog, or watch the action from a Thunderbird.

Aerobatic Sangfroid at 8 Gs - Fighter jocks. Despite the professionalism evident in everything they do, the pilots at Fighter Combat International maintain a healthy rivalry among themselves and invite their guests to take part in the fun. You'll notice immediately that everyone who works here is always smiling. I would be, too - my image of Heaven itself includes an 8,000 foot runway.

Hi Calorie So Cal Heli Adventures - This tour takes you from Montgomery Airport out to the coast of La Jolla Shores, then north to the World Class Torrey Pines Golf Course, makes a 180 degrees turn to the coast of La Jolla Shores and continues southbound over the Coronado Bridge. Then we go on to the beautiful downtown San Diego.

BICYCLING, TOURING, MT. BIKING

Laid Back In The Big Easy - Never fear, for Laid Back Tours, LLC is here. With the expert guidance of the husband and wife owners and operators, Mousa and Veda, you too can tour New Orleans at a relaxed and easy pace.

"Faultless Big Fault Big Wheel Bike Tours - “We’ll have your mountain bikes delivered to your resort in a few minutes,” announces Evan Trubee, owner of the six-year-old Big Wheel Bike Tours. He is thrilled that I agree that there’s no better way to see the world than by hiking and biking.

CLIMBING, MOUNTAINEERING

Life Rocks When In Good Company - Marian has thirty years of experience in backpacking, hiking, and canoeing, and ten years of climbing experience — she definitely knew her stuff — that's why she started Adventures in Good Company in 1999.

Sherpa Survival Skills On The Annapurna Circuit - The most popular trek in Nepal is The Annapurna Circuit. The entire trek lasts three weeks from start to finish, weather permitting. Most begin the trek out of Pokhara. Find out how a Sherpa saved one of Jetsetters Magazine writers in the high altitudes of the "Roof of the World."

HIKING, TREKKING, CAMPING
DOGSLEDDING

Hiking Leahi - Oahu's Diamond Head - The hike is not effortless, but worthy of a view of the Pacific and Honolu. Catch a rainbow. Sit on top of all WWII gun bunkers, waiting for a bygone era to return. Mike Heiney esplores the heights of a heavenly hike, complete with birdsong.

Hike Bike Kayak San Diego - Hike Bike Kayak, Inc. was founded in 2000 by Amy Kangleon. The company offers multisports adventures and fitness classes for those visiting San Diego or for the locals. Hike Bike Kayak (HBK) covers just about everything for those who want to get outdoors and check out the natural sights or to experience a hardcore workout.

Camping Out at the Castle - Hearst Castle was more than a home, it w

as a monument of an era to a powerful public and private newspaper baron, William Randolph Hearst. Pam Mandel explores the Enhanted Hill for all those enjoy romance, intrigue, and even murder!

RAFTING, CANOEING, KAYAKING

Kayaking & Whitewater Rafting Features

SKYDIVING

High Desert Thrillers - The Mohave is home to some extreme and thrilling tours and sports. From soaring to sailing, bungee jumping to ballooning, from white-water rafting to sky-diving and firewalking.. And you thought there were only slow moving desert tortoises. There is still an outback in America, and it is called Nevada. See it from a scream.

JEEP SAFARIS

Eco Safari Red Jeep Tours - There is more to do in Palm Springs than spas and golf courses. Take a unique Red Jeep tour through the rugged outback. Discover breathtaking desert beauty. View the infamous San Andreas Fault. Be a cultural ambassador to the Cuihilla Indians. Read about all the fun . .

RAIL ADVENTURES

Soot & Cinders - The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad - It's Monday morning at the yellow ticket office in Chama, New Mexico. Fall is in the air, as aspens are beginning to change color. This is the Upper Rio Chama Valley of northern New Mexico, at the border with Colorado, where we have driven up from Santa Fe to ride the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad.

Rail Europe - Your Ticket To Ride - The European rail system has been for years second-to-none for accessibility, comfort, and, with Rail Europe, affordability. There are a variety of Rail Europe passes for different prices that can get you anywhere you wish in little time and from city center to city center.

Rail East With Rail Europe - The railway is used both by tourists and locals alike and is undoubtedly the best way to see the countryside. My travels took me from Prague, in the Czech Republic, to Dresden, Germany, and finally to Vienna, Austria. Each city has a train station that is within walking distance and directly connected to the city through the metro system.

EROTICA

An Unorthodox Collector In Miami - Naomi Wilzig certainly doesn’t look like a world renowned authority on erotic art. In fact, she looks remarkably like what she is — a 70-year-old Jewish grandmother from New Jersey who dotes on her children and grandchildren. But Wilzig — often called “Miss Naomi” — is indeed one of the world’s leading authorities on erotic art, the author of five books on the subject, and the founder and president of The World Erotic Art Museum in Miami Beach.

ADVENTURE TOURING / GEAR

The 100 Top Adventure Movies On DVD - Sure you've seen Casablanca, but check out our other little known but truly exciting Jetsetters Magazine picks, then book your travel for your own adventure.

The 100 Top Best Adventure Travel Books Of All Time - Have you read any of these wonderful adventure tales. Collect them all for your adventure library.

Africa

Private Luxury Sabi Sabi Safaris with Austin Lehman Adventures- On a safari be prepared for elemental pleasures: hot tea with rusks (cross between cookies and granola bars) before leaving your tent for breakfast, the lull of the evening campfire, the embrace of more stars in close proximity than you’ve ever seen in your life, the landscape that extends beyond the horizon like an ocean. Austin Lehman Adventures brings your senses alive.

See The Pyramids Along the Nile - Our Mid-Eastern Correspondent, Edwin Ali, takes a luxury cruise down the Nile just like Cleopatra, with stops off in Luxor and Karnak before returning back to the mysterious Pyramids.

Hello . . . This Is Africa Calling - It wasn’t the pictures of far off lands as shown so beautifully in National Geographic. It wasn’t stories preached at church of starving refugees that needed help. It was far more immediate than those.

Australia

Surviving The Aboriginal Outback - Spend your holidays with the Aborigines!Want to experience the Survivor Outback without the backstabbing? Want to get up close and personal with nature, but not have to catch it for dinner? Think Tribal Council sounds fun but only if there's no risk of being sent home?

Canada

Bush Sedans - The Bush Sedans, or more commonly known as Bush Planes, began their service to the Candian North at Sault St. Marie, now the home to the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Museum. Visit the Yellowbirds.

Mushing Deerhurst Resort - Rated number one in Canada. Read about all the luxurious and sporting possibilities in Joanna Niebler's account on this plush pad in the Ontario snow. Forget snow caving. You better pack your mukluks and a sense of adventure, because you will want to head out to this winter wonderland.

Caribbean

Going Troppo In Puerto Rico - For the first time in history, ten captive-bred endangered Puerto Rican parrots were released to join the last 40 parrots existing in the wild. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has purchased 1,249 acres of the Puerto Rico's Cabo Rojo Salt Flats to triple the size of the Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge.

Find Your Trills In Montserrat - Bird watching for the enthusiast (or the novice) is a chance not to be missed, and "peer pressure," never a problem. For the binocular-carrying visitors who come to the laid back island environment of Montserrat, most southerly of the Caribbean's Leeward Islands, it's part of a memorable stay.

Volcano Trekking On St. Kitts - Mount Liamuiga is a dormant volcano, which is almost 3800 feet high. It is composed of both volcanic and sedimentary rocks. The mountain is covered with a tropical rain forest vegetation, which gives, a permanent supply of water. When you take a walk up to the top of the mountain, you will discover a wealth of flora, including giant leaves, vines, creepers, ferns, moss and a delightful orchids.

Bon Bon Bonaire - After extensive forayS into Bonaire's underwater wonders, read about the above water delights, including kayaking in the mangroves, windsurfing and then stranded at a nudist resort. How tough can it get?

Bajan Adventure Jeep Safari - Did you know that the words hurricane and hammock evolved from the Arawaks, the first settlers of Barbados? Or that you can use a chack-chack, growing naturally, as a part of the Calypso percussion section? Or that water coconuts are good for your liver? These are just a few things you will learn on a Barbados Adventure Safari!

Europe

The Holocaust Remembrance in Berling - As an American Jew, the murder of six million Jews by Hitler during World War II in Germany kept me far away from this European capital. But curiosity to visit Germany six decades after the Holocaust, and the fact that the country recently dedicated its “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe” increased my interest.

Brussels After Breakfast - Been to Brussels lately? If you routinely bypass this hip, trendy city in favor of that other French-speaking city nearby (oui, I’m talking about Paris), then it’s time to re-think your next itinerary. That’s right…I said hip and trendy. Probably not the first adjectives that would have come to mind, right?

Middle East / India

Ancient - Modern Treasure Chest - Turkey - It’s not like Hawaii, France, or Thailand. There are no instant images that come to mind—except maybe camels, deserts, and turbans. The image of Turkey is so skewed ; my impression of Turkey was about the same. After spending weeks there however and traveling to almost every corner of the country I realized something. Turkey is the travel treasure chest of the world.

Afghan Air Angst - This feature was forward to us anonymously from the frontlines of Afghanistan. We can not verify authorship or authenticity, but it sound's damn real - some of the fun experienced by one U.S. Navy Hornet pilot....

India - Land of My Ancestors - Jam-packed dusty streets, hundreds of bicyclists, auto and pedal propelled rickshaws, mopeds, hand pulled trolleys, sputtering motorcycles, tinsel-draped trucks, horse drawn buggies, camel carts and cows walking calmly through throngs of beggars is one view of looking at India, a land of some 1.2 billion people who have been under British rule for some 250 years.

Ancient Gamla's Ravine of Death - History tends to repeat itself in modern Middle Eastern politics, but nearly 2,000 years ago the First Jewish Revolt was a significant rebellion against Roman rule. This tearful tale from Cymber Quinn recounts her footsteps in the path of perditiion.

The Hajj - The Holy Kaaba - The holy hajj is the most important events in the Islamic world, and the annual pilgrimage brings followers of Mohammed from all over This Hajj feature lifts the veil to a closed-to-Westerners event, the largest gathering of visitors at any single event.

Mexico / Central America

Yucatan Adventura - Chichen Itza - Mayaland Tours operates fully-guided tours, self-guided tours, as well as custom private tours that are in length from day trips to overnight excursions. The trips vary from snorkel tours at Xel-ha, full tours of Chichen Itza, to private excursions to the temple of Tulum!

Costa Rica's El Octoal - Jungle Adventure and Diving Too! - The Pacific Coast of Costa Rica offers the adventure travel trekking, mountain biking, scuba diving, sailing and most of all comfortable adventure ecolodging. Costa Rica offers the best of every type of adventure!

Costa Rica - Pura Pacuare - Pura Vida - The first feature on this three part series is a jungle rafting trip down the beautiful Pacuare River, complete with jungle treks and gourmet dining. Then it a flight to the Turtle Lodge in Tortuguero National Park on the Caribbean, and finally some scuba diving in El Ocotal, along the Pacific Coast. Want more - well, we will have to go back.

South America

Switi Suriname - Switi is Sranan Tongo for anything good. Switi is Sranan Tongo for anything good. Historic Paramaribo has been designated by UNESCO as one of the last remaining wooden structure cities in the world.

Guyana's Quest For Ecotourism In the Treetops The work that is being undertaken at the 370,000 hectares Iwokrama (International Center For Rain Forest Conservation and Development) project in Guyana's hinterland could well become the prototype for the eco-tourism and sustainable development goal that so many nations are seeking.

Galleons and Gold in Lima, Peru People have lived in Peru since 10,000 B.C. when groups of hunters traveled the valleys and coastal areas of Lima searching for food. Today, this capital city founded by Francisco Pizarro in 1535, is a blend of colonial and modern architecture combined with an abundance of fine dining restaurants, museums, attractions and art galleries.