These Middle East Travel Experts Will Take You on a Discounted Tour of Israel

For 12 years, booking-tours.com has been helping travelers find their way when it comes to Israel, Jordan, and other Middle Eastern destinations — places I know a little something about, as longtime readers of this blog may recall

There's No Time Like November for a California-Inspired Playlist

While the cold weather sets in, it seems like a pretty great time to do some California dreamin'. And, besides getting your lazy bum on a plane and flying out there, what could be better for California dreamin' than listening to a California-inspired playlist?

Grabbing Coffee in Detroit? Here are 3 Places to Check Out

Despite the negativity people love to share, I’ve always kind of romanticized Detroit. Sure, there are challenges to be faced, just like anywhere else, but we don’t always need to focus on what’s going wrong; sometimes it’s necessary to shine a light on the good stuff. And in this case, the good stuff we’re talking about is coffee — the black nectar of the gods — and the spots in Detroit that are serving it up right.

8 Incredible Shots of Alaska from Photojournalist Emily Mesner

For the past few months my friend Emily Mesner has been working as a media specialist for Denali National Park and Preserve in the Interior of Alaska. She has taken countless stunning photos during here time out on the Last Frontier and she was kind enough to let me share some of them on my blog.

North AmericaLogan T. HansenOctober 25, 2017travel, photo essay, photography, Alaska, Denali National Park and Preserve, The Last Frontier, Emily Mesner, photojournalist, Igloo Canyon, Igloo Mountain, Milky Way, George Parks Highway, Northern Lights, ToklatComment

It's Hard to Stay Stationary When Traveling is Always on Your Mind

I keep thinking about the New York Times' "52 Places to Go in (Insert Year)" article that comes out every January, how I'd like to randomly select a handful of destinations from that list and make it a goal to get to each one before the next list appears. I keep thinking about taking a train across Canada. I keep thinking about Bocas del Toro in Panama...

Where to Eat & What to See & Do in Grand Rapids

I've been living in G.R. for a few months, and I've learned a few more things about Michigan's second largest city that I'd deem worth sharing. In a city with a population nearing 200,000, there's always something going on around here — and that's just the way I like it.

MichiganLogan T. HansenOctober 12, 2017travel, travel advice, travel guide, Grand Rapids, Michigan, West Michigan, SHEI Magazine, Furniture City, Matchbox Diner, Eastown, East Grand Rapids, Van's Pastry Shoppe, Grand Coney Diner, MadCap Coffee Company, Downtown Market, Slows Bar-B-Q, Peppino's Pizzeria & Sports Grille, Lucky Luciano's Pizza, J. Gardella's Tavern, Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, UICA, Rosa Parks Circle, Gerald R. Ford Museum, The B.O.B., Big Old Building, B.O.B.'s Brewery, Judson's Steakhouse, Bobarino's, Palio Grand Rapids, Amway Grand Plaza, The Kitchen by Wolfgang Puck, Rendezvous, Cygnus27, GP Sports, J.W. Marriott, Mojo's Dueling Piano Bar, Six.One.Six, Tavern On The Square, Grand Woods Lounge, Rumors Night Club, Stella's Lounge, The Holiday Bar, Blue Bridge, Founders Brewery, RubaeusComment

These 9 National Parks Receive the Fewest Visitors Per Year on Average

You've heard of Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Zion. You could name in which state you'd find the Grand Tetons, the Grand Canyon, and the Great Smoky Mountains. But the most-visited national parks constitute just a fraction of the beautiful federally-protected lands that you can visit in the United States.

North AmericaLogan T. HansenOctober 5, 2017travel, travel advice, travel guide, national parks, United States, Alaska, Washington, Gates of the Arctic, Yosemite, Yellowstone National Park, Zion National Park, Grand Tetons, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky Mountains, Bryce Canyon, Glacier National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, National Park Service, Great Basin National Park, Nevada, Lehman Caves, Wheeler Peak, White Pine County, Wrangell-St. Elias National park, Kennecott, Dry Tortugas National Park, Key West, Gulf of Mexico, Florida, Fort Jefferson, Katmai National Park, Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaskan brown bear, North Cascades National Park, Alan Wake, Goode Mountain, Buckner Mountain, Mount Logan, camping, hiking, climbing, Isle Royale National Park, Lake Superior, Wendigo Mining Company, Lake Clark National Park, Cook Inlet, Arctic Circle, Kobuk Valley National Park, Great Kobuk Sand Dunes, The Last Frontier, outdoors, natureComment

The B1G Tour: Wending Our Way to West Lafayette

On Saturday, three hours or so past the crack of dawn, a friend, my brother, and myself squashed ourselves into my brother's black Ford Focus and took to the freeway, heading south for the great(ish) state of Indiana, America's Crossroads, as they say.

That Time We Got Absolutely Drenched at Iguazú Falls

It started, as a handful of shenanigans do, with wine and whiskey. One after the other, poured in our little plastic cups as we sat all chummy on a Greyhound-type bus, heading north from the city of Buenos Aires into the Argentinian country side.

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