Planning your Chilkoot Trail backpacking trip

Planning your Chilkoot Trail backpacking trip

  • January 03, 2011
  • by Inga

The Chilkoot Trail, the original Klondike gold rush trail, is a classic hike that attracts history buffs and appeals to experienced wilderness backpackers. It spans two countries (U.S. and Canada) with distinctly different terrain in each country. The U.S. side is characterized as a coastal rain forest, heavily wooded with a thick understory of berry …

Eating and Sleeping in Waikiki, O’ahu, Hawai’i

  • May 25, 2009
  • by Inga

Although I seek all manner of exotic and authentic travel experiences, I must admit I have a soft spot for Waikiki, a blaze of humanity crammed onto a thin strip of sand cradling one of the best beaches in the world, dominated by the stolid mass of Diamond Head anchoring the far eastern point of …

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