Another Half-Week Wonder: Member JohnT grabbed the honors on WITW #5. So, here we go with another puzzle. I hope it lasts until Tuesday morning, when the answer, with details, will be revealed. Post your guesses as comments below. You...
Everyone knows the Eiffel Tower, or Tour Eiffel. You could probably draw a pretty accurate sketch without even looking. And quite a few folks know that that Gustave Eiffel, who designed and built it, also provided the iron skeleton that keeps the Statue of Liberty standing in New York Harbor.
Adam’s Peak (also known as Sri Pada, or “holy footprint") is located in the southwestern part of Hill Country. It’s 2,243 meters (7,359 ft) high, the tallest mountain in this region .
Hopping a freighter isn’t what it used to be. Which is to say it takes a great deal more planning and bother than the adventure of my imagination. Maybe I could find a tramp freighter if hanging around in a...
There are few things that liven up a hiking day more than stumbling on a shipwreck. At least that’s my life’s experience (based on this one wreck)! One of my most interesting back-country backpacking experiences was...
While recently visiting Florida's fascinating Everglades, I spent the better part of a day in the small town of "Everglades City". This town is within a few miles of the ocean and is best known as a good place to go for air-boat rides into...
Here's #5 in our weekly puzzle series. Gumbo has gone for a walk in the woods, and he isn't saying where. If you recognize the location first, you get bragging rights. Submit your guess as a comment to this blog right here at...
One of the rarest animals I've ever encountered in nature is the African Wild Dog.
Here's the discussion to go with this WITW. As you can see from the comment thread attached to theoriginal link, a lot of people had good ideas about this destination. And how lucky is a city to have not one, but two...
Here's the discussion to the picture puzzle posted nearly a week ago. Gumbo, like you, was enjoying the nice soft light of dusk over Long Beach's Harbor in Southern California. He was studying the massive Queen Mary in the distance...
My first introduction to Horton Plains National Park was in Hans Mohemius’ photo room at his home in Colombo. It is a beautiful high altitude plateau, with dramatic scenery.
Portland, Maine is a great place to visit any time (even in the winter!) but it’s hard to imagine a more exciting moment to have been there on the day they built the world’s longest lobster roll! The roll for the roll is seen arriving,...
Getting to Nyaungshwe from Mandalay by air is a surreal experience. But then much of travel in Burma is, in one way or another, surreally beautiful or incongruous. In this case it’s the latter.
The e-glory for recognizing WITW 4.0 belongs to Mac (heart round of applause!) for identifying the Queen Mary in Long Beach Harbor, California. Full write up on WITW 4.0 will be published as usual on Tuesday. But there's a second chance...
The coastal regions of Sri Lanka are fairly flat. Given that and the relatively small size of the island, I was surprised to find impressive peaks (over 2500 m high) at its center. This is where the country's tea is grown.