Famed blues guitarist Charles Baty (“Little Charlie and the Nightcats”) is a friend of HI Travel Tales. Although Baty semi-retired in 2008 he still hits the road to perform and is sharing his travel journal with us — a bit of Charles Baty traveling blues wisdom if you will.
As a traveler, adventurer, and artist I have long enjoyed sketching and painting, but it was not until a bucket-list trip in 2012 where I crewed on a sailboat for the crossing from Fiji to New Zealand that I discovered a passion for channeling my creative side on the...
Rain slick streets of Shanghai lie worn but resolute under two millennia of bare feet, sandals, hooves and wheels. The people run to work, hurry to school, linger in produce shops; peddling bikes, racing scooters, driving beat-down cars and over-stuffed delivery trucks. We are packed onto buses, waving for taxis and queuing for the metro.
“Hang on,” yelled our river guide Kevin with a grin. Leaning hard against the river’s pull, the oars bent slightly and the raft heaved to, taking a line that would carry us clear of the rocks, but right into the heart of the maelstrom. Heartbeats kept pace with the increasing speed of the raft as Kevin launched us into the jumble of waves. The raft bucked and heaved, so much so that in the middle of the rapid I managed to execute a nearly perfect back flip with a twist, landing smack in Kevin’s lap.
The Western States 100 is a 100-mile ultramarathon that takes place on California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains trails each year on the last full weekend of June. Therese Iknoian completed the run in 2006, her first attempt and during the hottest race on record. This is her account of the challenges she faced.
Enjoy more of our stories and photos by joining our Subscriber Club. It's FREE and by subscribing to our monthly newsletter you'll also get access to free downloads of e-books, recipes and more - no spam, ever, promise.