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Reviews of activities, tours, staycations and day trips, and things to do and profiles of tour operators.
In The Era Of Trump: Birthright Africa Emerges To Combat Negative Stereotypes
Chicago artist Ashley Johnson, 33, and former Goldman Sachs Associate Walla Elsheikh, 38, were inspired to launch Birthright Africa by their Jewish friends who raved about their birthright trips to Israel, they told the New Yorker.
Both women wondered why something like that didn’t exist for blacks in the African diaspora.
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Blood And Tears: New Civil Rights Trail Relevant To Our Times
Like A Gospel Song Rising In A Chorus, New Civil Rights Trail Through Deep South To The Delaware Speaks Now As Loud As It Did Nearly 64 Years Ago by Heather Cassell The new United States Civil Rights Trail seeks to remind us of the distant, but near historic truths through bringing a complicated history […]
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25 Years Of Adventures With The Women’s Travel Group
“It’s every traveler’s dream to get to Timbuktu,” said Phyllis, 70, founder of The Women’s Travel Group. “It’s such a cool name and it’s such a weird and remote place.”
Reaching Timbuktu in Mali, a West African nation, is one of her most memorable trips.
“That night we sat around on the grass,” dirty and drinking beers, “Saying, ‘I can’t believe we got to Timbuktu.’ That was the coolest feeling,” she said.
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New Tour Caters To LGBTQI Travelers in Porto
Porto – most famous for creating port wine – is naturally attractive to queer travelers.
The city is charming with its collection of Baroque, Brutalist, Gothic, medieval mosaic, neo-classical Beaux Art architecture to contemporary designs nestled among the hills at the mouth of the Douro River.
Porto’s wealth today comes from its rich historic cobblestone streets and architecture and the heart of its people who love the city and want to show it off.
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Get Campy At These Queer Summer Camps
Queer campers are taking advantage of the dogged summer days as summer winds down as the end of August nears.
Campers will pack up their tents and head out into nature on both sides of the American coasts next week for Camp Camp and Lesbian Summer Camp – Endless Days of Summer – Beach Party.
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Brain Freeze! Museum Of Ice Cream Comes To San Francisco
San Francisco is the next stop on the ice cream trail for the immensely popular pop-up Museum of Ice Cream organizers announced Tuesday.
The museum will set up its famed sprinkle pool, banana room, at 1 Grant Avenue in the former Emporio Armani boutique in Union Square, according to media reports.
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The Great Ice Cream Hunt Hits L.A.
I will scream. You will scream. We all will scream for ice cream!
Summer has just begun and ice cream, the favorite treat of the season, is on everyone’s mind again. So, what better way to kick off the launch of a new travel app than to have a scavenger hunt for ice cream?
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Melissa Etheridge’s Cuban Journey
It’s a dream come true for musician Melissa Etheridge. Later this month Melissa will journey to Havana, Cuba.
The mysterious and forbidden island nation in the Caribbean has intrigued the 55-year old artist since childhood, she tells the New York Times.
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A City With A View: Florence
In the 1985 film A Room with a View, we are memorably introduced to two of the main characters—both born to England’s Edwardian-era upper class—as they are in the middle of an epic sulk. The pair, played by Helena Bonham Carter and Maggie Smith, are aggrieved at discovering that the rooms they have been assigned at their pensione do not have the view they felt they were promised.
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Girlz MotoCamp Changes Name To She’z Moto Camp
“To me, She’z Moto means she is everything motorcycles, she’s her own person, she’s strong, she’s awesome, and she’s ready to ride. It really encompasses what I think of as a female motorcycle rider,” says Shelina, in She’z Moto Camp’s August 25 news release.
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Visitors To Olympia Can Now Create Their Own Tasting Tour Of The Region
There’s more to Washington than Seattle and Walla Walla, there’s Olympia. Birthplace of the Riot Grrrls of the 1990s, Washington’s capital city poised at the southern end of Puget Sound on Budd Inlet is celebrating its roots that have little to do with indie girl punk rock music.
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It’s The Cheese For The New California Cheese Trail App
It’s cheesy goodness along California’s Cheese Trail.
Now it’s easier than ever to find the more than 70 creameries in the Golden State with the California Cheese Trail’s new app launched July 19.
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