Travel can be splendid. Exhilrating.
Phase of the Moon on 9 September, 2006: waning gibbous with 94% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated.
The Dead Sea (Hebrew: יָם הַמֶּלַח, Yām Ha-Melaḥ, "Sea of Salt"; Arabic: ألبَحْر ألمَيّت, al-Baḥrᵘ l-Mayyitⁱ, "Dead Sea") is a salt lake between the West Bank and Israel to the west, and Jordan to the east. At 420 metres (1,378 ft) below sea level,[2] its shores are the lowest point on Earth that are on dry land.
On our recent trip to Maui, my husband and I fell in love with the sea turtles - so much so that he decided to bring one home as a permanent reminder of the amazing experience.
The Red Bank Station is one of 20 stops on New Jersey Transit's North Jersey Coast Line. This commuter station also offers an easy port of call to the city with direct access from New York City's Pennsylvania Station.
Red Rock Canyon is a newly acquired part of the Colorado Springs Trails and Open Spaces system. It is the geological continuation of the Garden of the Gods, located a mere mile on the other side of the highway.
A woman belonging to the Red Dao (one of Vietnam's 54 minority ethnic groups) stands in the Sapa market as two young ladies (both ethnic Vietnamese and likely visiting from out of town on a weekend holiday) stand in the background, holding hands.
A young Red Dao woman gathers herbs for a traditional bath outside of Sapa, in Viet Nam.