The legendary U.S. travel journalist and entrepreneur Arthur Frommer passed away November 18 at the age of 95. Born in Virginia and with an early boyhood in a small town in Missouri, Arthur became a lawyer, then ultimately a pioneering and great travel journalist who will be remembered as having helped open the joys of travel to the masses. While serving in the U.S. Army in Europe in the 1950s, he got the travel bug, came out with a travel guide for servicemen, and followed up in 1957 with Eu
Published: Ocotber 3, 2011
Finding lesbians in New York City or London is somewhat easy, but it is a whole other story in distant lands, especially when women have very little if any rights at all - don't even mention the "L" word - but these are minor challenges to Gina Gatta and Tanya Churchmuch.
Damron owner Gina Gatta with business and life partner, Erika O'Conner, enjoying Iceland.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Damron
Gatta is president and editor-in-chief of Damron, the oldest
Edited by Gina M. Gatta; Damron Company, 648 pages; paperback, $18.95
Reviewed by Heather Cassell
Don't leave home without it. Damron Women's Traveller, the most popular travel guide for queer women, is back with all new and updated listings for 2012. Want to know where to go in Nashville? Damron Women's Traveller will point you in the right direction. It is the must have guide for queer girls and their friends.
Damron's crew gathers the latest information about its queer women-only and lesbian, g
mTrip launched just one year ago with travel guides for iPhone, iPod and Android. Now they have expanded to the web, offering mobile users the ability to add geo-located photos and notes to their trips and instantly sync them online when a free WiFi connection is detected. Travelers can share their trips with friends in real-time, while they are out seeing the sights and when they get home, they will have a personal page with all their trip memories!
Trips can also be shared via Facebook, Twitte
mTrip launched just one year ago with travel guides for iPhone, iPod and Android. Now they have expanded to the web, offering mobile users the ability to add geo-located photos and notes to their trips and instantly sync them online when a free WiFi connection is detected. Travelers can share their trips with friends in real-time, while they are out seeing the sights and when they get home, they will have a personal page with all their trip memories!
Trips can also be shared via Facebook, Twitte
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When I was an aspiring writer and novice traveller, reading Dervla Murphy's travel classics such as In Ethiopia with a Mule, I never thought that one day this doyenne of travel writing would be reviewing my work. But that's exactly what happened this month, with a review of my new edition of the Bradt Guide to Palestine appearing in Wanderlust, a major British travel glossy. So many thanks to Dervla for the glowing review, and to Wanderlust for publishing a substantial review of a destination wh
Published: Ocotber 3, 2011
Founder of GirlPorts.com Tanya Churchmuch dines at her favorite Paris restaurant, Le Chartier.
Photo Credit: Carrie MacPherson
An avid worldwide traveler, Canadian Tanya Churchmuch wanted more from lesbian travel guides, but couldn't find what she wanted.
"I was somebody who always traveled a lot and always became frustrated by the lack of useful information for lesbian travelers that was available," says Churchmuch, a former broadcast anchor and inter
Published: Ocotber 3, 2011
Damron owner Gina Gatta with business and life partner, Erika O'Conner, enjoying Iceland.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Damron
For the more than 20 years, Gatta, 46, an openly gay woman, has traveled the world and n
This is a question that is asked frequently by visitors to Yosemite National Park and the answer is NO!
Neither the park nor anyone else can guarantee the safety of the water in rivers and creeks.
Either buy your beverages and cart out your trash or simply buy a water filter.
There are many such filtering devices on the market that range in price from $10.00 up. Check them out!
REI has a good selection. I personally use a chemical by McNett called Aqua Mira Part A & B.
Most filters are easy to carry
