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Italy Off the Beaten Path: 4 Places to Visit in Friuli-Veneto Giulia
There is so much more to Italy than the 3 most popular bucket-list cities of Rome, Florence and Venice. If you are looking to explore places in Italy off the beaten path, here are 4 villages and towns to visit in the region of Friuli-Veneto Giulia. This area northeast of Venice offers the opportunity to go smaller and go slower and enjoy a much more relaxed, authentic Italian experience.
Slaying Giants: Destroying Sequoias to Prove Their Existence
It’s the ultimate in historical irony: felling millennia-old giant sequoia trees in the 19th century as ‘trophy trees’, just to prove to the world that they had existed in the first place. Here’s what happened.
Cambria, California: More Than Just Hippy Dippy Charm
It's hard to find small towns that offer urban amenities while still keeping their original charm and slower pace of life that make them so attractive in the first place. But Cambria, California seems to have struck that perfect balance. This pretty coastal town four...
In Search of Sequoias in Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks
I can’t even remember the first time I learned about the existence of giant sequoia trees. I must have been quite young, because my fascination with them held an almost mythical quality, as if these trees were more a product of imagination than reality, like the Loch Ness Monster, or Bigfoot. I distinctly remember seeing a picture of a car driving through a tunnel carved through one of these trees, but still, it was hard to believe that a forest of these trees could exist. Which was why I promised myself that someday I would venture to Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks in California if for no other reason than to see these trees for myself.
Half a century later, that someday happened…
