by Earl Bridges | May 7, 2023 | Destination Feature, Destinations, Fullwidth Feature
KADISHA VALLEY, LEBANON — First, we wait for the wind. We sat down on the edge of a mountaintop. The air was still. We were harnessed in to a large parasail wing, spread out on the rock behind us. It would be first time running off the side of a mountain in the belief...
by GAOadmin | Feb 13, 2023 | Destination Feature, Destinations, Fullwidth Feature
The world becomes very small when your body is in crisis. The second we jumped into the Baltic Sea, everything stopped. I gasped for air and started hyperventilating. I waited to catch my breath, but it didn’t happen. I had no choice but to swim like that. Calm body,...
by GAOadmin | Mar 7, 2022 | Destination Feature, Destinations, Fullwidth Feature, home_top
Kyrgyzstan smells like burning coal and horses. The air is dry. The mountains rise up in all directions — rocky, craggy, snow-covered peaks, fresh and unworn from their tectonic birth. It’s the kind of place where you say, “This looks like Wyoming or Idaho or...
by GAOadmin | Mar 7, 2022 | Charleston, Destination Feature, Destination Guides, Destinations, Extended Interviews, Fullwidth Feature
For a nation and world in desperate need of positive change, the “fourth estate” is (or at least should be) anunbiased moderator of conversations around improving society. Unfortunately, not onlyhave local news outlets become marginalized, many have been under near...