The Travel Photo of the Day is of Mount Shuksan
Mount Shuksan is a peak located in the North Cascades National Park, which is in turn located in Whatcom County, Washington. Because of its prime location, Mount Shuksan is one of the most frequently-photographed peaks in the Cascade Range, especially because of the presence of Picture Lake and the photo opportunities created by the mountain’s reflection on the lake. Its name derives from the Skagit Indian word meaning “rocky and dangerous.”
Soon, your kids will be out of school and pestering you about that trip to Disney World you promised you’d take them on 4 years ago. Unfortunately, you probably don’t have enough money saved up to deliver this year. But that doesn’t mean you can’t take a decent vacation and still have money left over [...]
The Travel Photo of the Day is of Joshua Tree National Park Joshua Tree National Park is located in California in the southeastern portion of the state. The park has many different unique types of vegetation including ocotillo, creosote bush, cholla cactus and, of course, the Joshua tree – as pictured here. Related posts: Canaima [...]
In today’s modern world with airplanes jetting around the globe, sometimes we forget how travel got its big start. Cross country trains and railroads were one of the first big steps in making travel accessible to everyone. Major metropolises like New York City built enormous railway terminals like Grand Central Station and Pennsylvania Station to [...]
Paris is full of beautiful churches and you can stumble into quite a few of them just from random walking through the Paris streets. However, there are three famous Paris churches which really are too beautiful to miss. Notre Dame Cathedral is arguably Paris’s most famous church, or in fact one of the world’s most [...]
Ice. It is quite literally the greenest building material on Earth. Pure solid water. What other type of building dissolves harmlessly back into our rivers when it is no longer needed? But it doesn’t stop there. When one says “green” and “environmentally friendly”, all to often the word that hides just below the surface is [...]
The Travel Photo of the Day for is of The Matterhorn from above the Stellisee The Matterhorn is a mountain in the Pennine Alps Range that lies on the border between Switzerland and Italy. Standing at a stunning 14,692 feet tall, Matterhorn has garnered a grisly reputation as the deadliest mountain in the Alps. Since [...]
