A zip-line (also known as a flying fox, foefie slide, zip wire, aerial runway, aerial ropeslide, death slide or tyrolean crossing) consists of a pulley suspended on a cable mounted on an incline. It is designed to enable a user propelled by gravity to travel from the top to the bottom of the inclined cable, [...]
Archive | October, 2011 
Travel Blogger Celebrity Lookalikes Competition for Charity
The Travel Blogger community is a great little community of like-minded travel lovers who love to share their stories, photos, and experiences with us, so that we can be inspired to seek out our own travel adventures. We thought it would be fun to match up a few of the more prominent travel bloggers with [...]
A Day in the Rocky Mountains
Stirring softly in my comfy bed, I began to awake slowly. Me and my family were staying in Vail, Colorado for a fun-filled week long ski vacation. After two days I had finally acclimated myself to the Rocky Mountain higher elevation levels. No more huffing and puffing up the lengthy three flights of stairs to [...]
Biking the Bay – Fisherman’s Wharf to Tiburon
San Francisco is one of the best (and worst) cities in the world to cycle around. The landscape can vary from extremely steep hills (where you often need to get off your bike and walk) to negotiating electric buses and cable cars to the most friendly, flat bike paths. The climate is another factor that [...]
Pedal Power and Rice Paddies – A Cycling Tour in Bali
A couple of days after our white water rafting expedition, we were making our way back to Ubud to go cycling. We went further north of Ubud this time, starting from Mount Batur and going on a mainly downhill cycle for 20.5 kilometers. Our starting point was in a little restaurant perched high on a [...]
