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• Prances With Boars – Jogging Through a City Park in Vienna, Austria

  By Dave Santillo on October 4, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Did you ever wonder how compatible wild pigs would be with sunbathers, rollerbladers, street performers and vendors, joggers, bicycles, flower gardens, games of volleyball, and all the other goings-on that define a city park?  Well, I hadn’t either, but I… Read More ›

• Paddling an Unnamed River in the Wilderness of Labrador

  By Dave Santillo on September 26, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  We watched the vintage 1950 Otter float plane lift off the water and loop over us, leaving us with our three canoes and a rainbow assortment of dry bags and paddles tossed ashore in a nondescript shrub and spruce thicket.  … Read More ›

• Finding Birds and Religion at the Point Reyes National Seashore, California

  By Dave Santillo on May 31, 2012 • ( 6 )

  

  A few years back, I was on a road trip from Washington State down to the southern tip of California, driving as close to the coast as possible for most of the way.  Much of it was seat of the… Read More ›

• The Galapagos Islands – On the Beaten Path

  By Dave Santillo on May 26, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably at least a bit like me, and you take slightly more pleasure in finding the path less traveled.  In fact, when you stumble onto those gem places where you fool yourself into feeling… Read More ›

• Hiking Salkantay in the Clouds of Peru: A Gift Wrapped in Silver Ribbons

  By Dave Santillo on January 14, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  “Every once in a while, the Apu, or mountain spirit, will call to a cow to graze way up high on the steepest slopes, where the cow will slip and fall; by doing that, he provides food for the Andean… Read More ›

• Vieques – Under the Surface

  By Dave Santillo on December 21, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  Some travel destinations have so many choices of activities that it becomes a stress just deciding what to squeeze in.  Well,  Vieques isn’t one of them.  Other than sipping tropical cocktails or Medalla cervesa, all things “Vieques” lead in one… Read More ›

• Adventures on a Cross-country Road Trip With the Playlist on Shuffle

  By Dave Santillo on December 8, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

   A cross country road-trip holds a special kind of mystique for many travelers.  Friends tell me they’re envious and wish they could go.  It resurrects Jack Kerouac…visions of a cross-country motorcycle trip…stories of hitchhiking.…pinings for something done in our past….or… Read More ›

• Just Another Day Canoeing on the Kazan River, Nunavut, Canada

  By Dave Santillo on November 29, 2011 • ( 5 )

  

  It’s around 2:30 am…there’s still some fading twilight casting faint shadows on the stark tundra along the mighty Kazan River in Nunavut, Canada.  Its day 14 or 15 (I lost count) of a 3-week canoe expedition – dropped by bush… Read More ›

• Introducing The Puma Diaries

  By Dave Santillo on November 28, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Traveling is a wonderful reality for some of us, an elusive dream for others.  It’s a world of endless possibilities:  a weekend camping trip, an all inclusive resort in Cancun, a 3 month unplanned excursion to Indonesia, a pilgrimage to… Read More ›