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Sahti - My Search for Traditional Finnish Beer

Another Finnish bar, and another Finnish bartender looking at me like I'm an escaped mental patient. And it's all because of my search for the traditional beer called sahti.

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Hike Destinations: Landmannalaugar Versus Tongariro

Hike Destinations: Landmannalaugar Versus Tongariro

Bacon or chocolate? A pint of craft beer or a wedge of aged gouda? The family dog or cat? All choices nobody wants to make. My favorite hiking destinations offer the same conundrum. So what's the winner - Iceland's Landmannalaugar or New Zealand's Tongariro Alpine Crossing?

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Serenity Now! – Four Places to Find Quiet

Serenity Now! - Four Places to Find Quiet

Sometimes, the din has to stop. You need to get away from TVs, traffic and the white noise of people-people-everywhere. But where? A slice of quiet seems harder than ever to find, but I have some ideas.

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Want to learn how to SCUBA dive? Thailand might be your place.

My First SCUBA Dive Experience - from Beginner to Pro (Guest Post)

SCUBA expert Rutger Thole shares memories of his first dive experience. Join this nervous newbie as he gets hooked on the underwater world and goes on to earn more certifications and visit cool new dive sites.

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Resident of Australia - not New Zealand

Australia and New Zealand - Not the Same Continent

A conversation with co-workers leads me to dispel some nonsense notions of Australia and New Zealand.

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First Ride on “New” Mountain Bike Trail – with video

McDowell mountain bike

One of my favorite mountain bike trails just got a little nip and tuck. Find out if it’s good, bad or ugly.

Four Must-See World Sports Events

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A combination of travel and straight-up curiosity lead me to ask: What sporting events would I want to see? Well, here they are. Get ready for some surprises.

Plan a Better Vacation – 4 Easy Tips

This hike was one of the high points of my Nordic adventure.

An awesome trip is rarely an accident. It’s a combination of preparation, planning and flexibility. You start with a gameplan and leave holes for spontaneity. Let me show you how it’s done, using my recent trip to the Nordic countries as an example

Travel Blogs or Guidebooks: Who Do You Trust?

The guidebook promised a fairly flat, easy, short hike.

A guidebook leaves me unprepared for a hike near Busan, South Korea – and makes me reflect why I think good travel bloggers are now more credible than guide books.

3 Awesome Things People do to Mountain Bikes – Part 1

Use Simple Green instead of WD40 to get your chain and cassette clean!

I once posted a list of 6 Horrible Things People do to Their Bikes. Let’s flip that around in a different direction … and look at AWESOME things people do to their bikes.

Turku, Finland – Scenes from a Summer Day

A cool bit of public art in the Aura River.

Check out some views of Turku, a city in Southern Finland. If your travel plans take you to Finland, drop into Turku for a few days and enjoy it.

Sahti – My Search for Traditional Finnish Beer

Sahti

Another Finnish bar, and another Finnish bartender looking at me like I’m an escaped mental patient. And it’s all because of my search for the traditional beer called sahti.

PressReader by NewspaperDirect: A Quick Overview

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PressReader is a smartphone app that promises to keep travelers plugged into their favorite newspapers. But is that really what it does best? And what else can it do?

5 Great Cities to Visit

Helsinki looks like a seafaring slice of an earlier time. photo IMGP0542_zpsb7534161.jpg

A Conde Naste article about over-priced and over-hyped travel gets me all fired up … enough to write a counter-article geared toward everyday travelers instead of the independently wealthy.

Serenity Now! – Four Places to Find Quiet

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Sometimes, the din has to stop. You need to get away from TVs, traffic and the white noise of people-people-everywhere. But where? A slice of quiet seems harder than ever to find, but I have some ideas.