Travel
Savour the culture along Riviera Nayarit
On our way to the tiny beach town of San Pancho on the Pacific Coast of Mexico in Nayarit state, we saw a horse being transported in the back of a small pickup truck. As if that wasn’t strange enough, the horse appeared to be dancing to music that was blaring from a portable stereo inside the vehicle.
After driving behind this talented animal for several minutes, our tour guide explained that in Mexico, some people train their horses to dance to music and put them on show at various festivals and events. Perhaps the horse we saw was training for Dancing with the Stars, because he was good. READ
Monkey business in Borneo
Usually I find small talk with strangers difficult. Not so when I attended a tourism conference in Borneo. READ
Europe on cruise control
As we disembarked our Royal Caribbean International cruise ship at our first port of call in Messina, Sicily, our 16-year-old son asked a question we weren’t expecting: “It’s Tuesday today, right?” READ
Korean DMZ feels like a tourist trap
Soldiers from rival North and South Korea eye one another across a thin strip of no-man’s land that — just barely — keeps their armies apart. The tension, they insist on both sides, is palpable. READ
