Wind blows through your hair while sun rays hit your scalp. Your favorite music streams from your car’s speaker boxes. Open views of the Shenandoah Valley alternate with thick forest scenery. As you zoom past yet another spectacular viewpoint, a deer scurries back into the brush. If you’re lucky, you might even spot one of Shenandoah National Park’s black bears.
The Blue Ridge Parkway is all about enjoying some of America’s greatest mountain scenery, doing some hiking and visiting historic sites. I recommend driving the Blue Ridge Parkway in fall. The landscapes are beautifully bright, the waterfalls even more scenic and the crisp mountain mornings invigorating.
Although it may look small, dwarfed by the Australian mainland, Tasmania is actually a pretty large island. Only 25 islands in the world are bigger in size. And what’s more, over 40% of its surface area is protected, including a huge UNESCO World Heritage Site and no fewer than nineteen Tasmania national parks.
I won’t say that the United States is the world’s best country for road trips—that award goes to Australia, in my opinion—but it’s a darn close second. From the Appalachian …
It was in Istria that we got our first taste of Croatia and immediately fell in love with it. A triangular peninsula in northwestern Croatia, Istria (Istra in Croatian) might …
Three weeks ago my parents – who were visiting me here in Vermont for my wedding – and I went on a day-long drive through the stunning White Mountains of …
We’ve been in Ireland for two and a half months now. After more than a month in Dublin, three weeks in Galway and a week in Cork, I think it’s …