El Salvador

by Brenda Yun (RSS feed) (1 month ago)
Talk about good luck! I arrived home on Wednesday and promptly hit the water for a surf with my buddies. Then yesterday a decent southern swell came through and, more importantly, the first significant swell of the season also made its way to the North Shore. My excitement ...

by Jamie Rhein (RSS feed) (8 months ago)
Happy first day of spring! This week we're having a book give-a-way. Pico Iyer's book The Open Road: Global Travels of the 14th Dalai Lama can be yours. All you have to do is leave a comment about a place that captured your attention at the end Iyer's Talking Travel ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (8 months ago)
Latin America is becoming a hot spot for green travel, but most adventure-seekers look to Honduras and Nicaragua ... rather than El Salvador, with which they share a border. With the country's civil war in the past, a destination marketing campaign has been launched, and a ...

by Jamie Rhein (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
I don't knit. I've tried, but even when I've attempted a scarf, it ends up weird shaped. Anna knits. She's waxed poetic about it in a post about the pleasures of knitting and travel. Here's another reason to grab some knitting needles and yarn.
While leafing through a back ...

by Grant Martin (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Delta just launched a fare sale from Washington, New York and San Francisco to the Central American capitol of El Salvador, San Salvador. For just over two hundred bucks, you can get away from the torrential rains of the early spring for a long weekend on the Pacific. Sounds ...

by Jamie Rhein (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
If you think about El Salvador perhaps images of civil war come to mind. The civil war ended in 1992. Now there are other things for El Salvador to become well known for--scuba diving, for example.
You can open water dive to explore a wrecked boat and volcanic rock reefs ...

by Iva Skoch (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
Thailand used to be a destination for exotic travel, perhaps even for sex travel. Now, it is a well-established member of the ever-increasing ranks of surgery destinations. Yes, travel is not just for the well or even the well-heeled, now it's for the wellness-seeking. too. ...