Do you consider yourself an adventure seeker? Perhaps you’re unsure because your willingness to take risks doesn’t always match the daring you see in folks with whom you associate. No judgments here! Psychologists say that there are many types of adventurers and even if you’ve no interest in skydiving, you may still have an adventurous soul. If you’d like to see what qualities adventure seekers…
Zip Lining & Cave Tubing Are Two Popular Belize Adventure Tours If your idea of the world’s perfect vacation includes as many adventures as you can cram into your schedule, a steady diet of jungle zip lining, cave tubing and waterfall hiking in Belize is sure to satisfy your itch for excitement. Worried that you’re too old, not fit enough or lacking in courage? The…
If you’ve ever discussed travel proclivities with others, it probably took less than 10 minutes to see how diverse expectations are, even among people you know well. Some grew up taking family holidays and they stick to those traditions. Others are all about finding new places, people, and experiences. In fact, everyone develops a travel style that is unique. By answering these questions, you can…
Did you know that a three-day weekend may be more beneficial to your mental and physical health than vacationing for a full week? According to psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert, short vacations “work wonders because you won’t run into many of the issues that typically come up with planning longer trips.” Alpert describes frustrations like spending an entire day to reach a destination, coping with the side…
Wonder where the phrase “more bang for your buck” originated? Credit goes to Dwight D. Eisenhower who proposed reducing troop numbers and relying on “inexpensive atomic bombs” as a cost-saving measure in 1953. This suggestion was met with so much enthusiasm, that Admiral Arthur Radford coined “more bang for your buck” to paraphrase Ike’s effort. The saying became so memorable, that it’s been part of…
To whom do you turn for travel advice? Uncle Richard who fancies himself a global traveler and offers advice before you ask for it? Perhaps you count on the Internet to ferret out tips on specific destinations that you’re interested in exploring. Some people are so fascinated by other cultures and societies, they keep scrapbooks of clippings from travel magazines, pining over text and images…
You don’t have to be an expert on the topic of Chicago history to have heard the phrase “Vote early and often”! This cynical challenge has been attributed to gangster Al Capone, the infamous Mayor Richard J. Daley, and William Hale Thompson, a turn of the century mayor who was perhaps the most corrupt of the three. Of course, you know that voting more than…
With fall on the horizon (it starts on September 22nd), you may need a vacation that won’t wait until the summer of 2022, but try as you might, you can’t justify either the time or money it entails to do a proper job of vacation planning. No worries. We’ve unearthed a few fall occasions that beg to be celebrated, so pick one that resonates or…
Is it easy to stand out from the crowd when a pandemic has shut down the travel industry leaving properties like Belize’s Laru Beya Resort struggling to survive? The answer is no – but this popular resort never stopped innovating as months passed, and when the Belize tourism industry came up with a harrowing list of protocols to assure the health and wellbeing of visitors,…
When it comes to inventing pithy slogans to appeal to the general public, the U.S. generally takes the prize. Consider the phrase “more bang for your buck.” It didn’t originate on a used car lot nor during a negotiation at an antique store. Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson coined the phrase in 1954 when he attempted to explain President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s…