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Canyon Ranch Spa Experience

A spa break will relax you, de-stress you, and make you feel more fully human.

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Mariposa in Sunlight

I am in Mariposa, CA, to visit my boyfriend’s relatives for the first time, to spend my first Thanksgiving with them.

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Finding Reverence Amongst the Redwoods

As we drive along the Redwood Highway, I am reminded why so many great writers found their voices in the forests of California.

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Polar Bears In My Window

Churchill, in Manitoba, Canada, is known as The Polar Bear Capital of the World.

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Maine Storms on the Appalachian Trail

Most of us would be attempting to hike to Maine, but statistically, only one-fourth of us would make it.

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Rhubarb in the Tackle Box

I don’t understand the appeal of fishing, but this was going to be a major day for my ten-year-old son Conor.

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Lessons from Mexico

I wanted the unknown more than I wanted what was known.

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Passing On The Passion

An aunt shares her love of travel with her nephew, hoping to pass on her passion for the national parks of the Southwest.

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Where I Stood

A traveler arrives to work at a Hawaiian retreat center in the middle of the jungle and with a focus on yoga and organic food.

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Dogsled Cowgirl

It was strange that others traveled and paid to mush a dog for a few minutes when you could get an adventurous job and do it all the time.

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Lost Coast Found

The Lost Coast is a 25-mile hike where the rugged King Range meets hungry rough waves - perfect for one woman's solo trek.

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How It Ends

The bus goes off the road somewhere south of Cancun when the driver avoids a head-on collision.

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Wavering on the Fiery Edge

An evening trek out to where the volcano lava flows at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park.

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My Kauai Merman

A Kauai native with dive gear and a surfboard, Raf lived in the ocean and had the muscles of a merman.

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A New Frame of Mind

An eight-day 277-mile expedition down the Colorado River through the center of the Grand Canyon.

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The Magic That is Esalen

Esalen is a community, on a cliff overlooking the Pacific, known for its sulfur baths, massages and self-exploration workshops.

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In My Father’s Footsteps: Hiking Yosemite’s Half Dome

The granite steps to Half Dome proved a way to weed out hikers who had already put in six hours on a steadily climbing trail.

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Here in the Light

Long-time friends take a vacation together in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Antlers in the Grass

Answers to your deepest issues surface while riding a horse through nature. And your heart makes room.

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Where the Spirit Moves You: Kohala Coast Hawaii

A travel story from the Kohala Coast of the Big Island, as well as some ideas of things to do and places to stay.

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Hardcore Holiday

Not all vacations are luxurious. Some are brutish boot camp experiences. Literally.

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Shifting Gears

A woman joins a cross-country bike ride for women over 50, for seven weeks, 3,100 miles across the U.S.

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Seeing the World with New Eyes

A journey on a relic of a train venturing through a canyon to the town of Durango, Colorado.

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Burning a Hole in the Sky

Yes, I’m thirty years old, and I’m sticking my tongue out at my mother while refusing to jump out of a racing airplane.

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Falling Up

In the back of my mind is the last zip line — the longest in the state, over three ridges, where people hit speeds over 50 mph.

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Mayan Adventures with my 77-year-old Mother

A daughter and her 77-year-old mother adventure travel from Akumal to Tulum to the Bay of Ascension.

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About Beth I wear many hats as the founder of Wanderlust and Lipstick and WanderTours. I lead small group adventures to off-the-beaten-path destinations, am the author of the Wanderlust and Lipstick guides for women travelers and the publisher of this website. Read More…

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