The new Deep South USA guide, which can be read online or ordered, covers the five southern states of Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. The new guide now includes themed itineraries which can be combined to showcase the whole region, with recommendations for t accommodations. Highlights include an introduction to the Deep Sou...

Western Colorado offers some of the most spectacular scenery in this state that overflows with mountain landscapes.  While most visitors travel to Denver and Rocky Mountain National Park in the northeast part of the state, I wanted to see the fall colors that cover Colorado from Grand Junction to Durango.  My travels would also stop in As...

Swimming with eight-metre-long whale sharks is the highlight of a vacay to Mexico's Baja Peninsula. In my periphery vision, slowly and steadily, a hulking, dark and indeterminate shadow appears. My heart quickens and there's an involuntarily sharp intake of breath on my snorkel mouthpiece. I first focus on an elaborate pattern of white dots on a gl...

Dog travel writer borrowed for a half-day now has a forever home. Tail a waggin', Simba leads the way like he knows where he's going. It's the first time this Chihuahua-terrier cross has been on the Koloa Heritage Trail, but that doesn't damper his ears-perked, tongue- hanging-out canine enthusiasm. My wife, Kerry, and I happily follow, hardly beli...

New Orleans is a city that has donuts without holes. It has horse drawn carriages that take you past a beautiful white church and into one of America's oldest neighborhoods where you can hear music nearly all the time. Jazz was invented here.​ It has sternwheelers that ply the river to antebellum plantations where you walk under a canopy of Oak tre...

The western US state of Colorado Colorado is known for its mountains, forests, high plains, mesas, canyons, plateaus, rivers and desert lands. The state takes in most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. It was named for the Colorado River, which early ...