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When you travel, you just don't know if there will be a power failure. This is when a headlamp becomes a very useful gadget. It makes no...
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Leigh Haubach
- Dec 10, 2019
- 1 min
Get REI's Deal of the Day
REI offers one product every day that is an extraordinary deal. Give it a try and see what they are wheeling and dealing on today! Click...
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Leigh Haubach
- Dec 7, 2019
- 1 min
REI's Women's Travel Pants
These travel trousers take you from the plane, to the museum, to the hiking trail, and to dinner.
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Leigh Haubach
- Oct 28, 2019
- 1 min
Effortless Hiking with Osprey Women's Hiking Backpack 🎒
This Osprey Hiking Backpack served me very well on the Inka Trail in June 2018. I had the pack fitted to me at REI and it felt great.
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Leigh Haubach
- Oct 28, 2019
- 1 min
Rick Steves Travel Guides
With decades of experience, Rick Steves writes the most comprehensive guides to Europe and beyond.
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Leigh Haubach
- Aug 27, 2019
- 4 min
Stupendous St. Petersburg
I'm sure I'll have to use a thesaurus to describe the grandeur of St. Petersburg. I just kept saying, "Oh.My.God". The palaces and art...
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Leigh Haubach
- Aug 27, 2019
- 2 min
Moving at Light Speed in Moscow
I condensed my trip to Moscow because I wasn't sure I wanted to go there and I thought it might be dangerous. I was wrong on both counts....
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Leigh Haubach
- Aug 27, 2019
- 1 min
Tallinn, Estonia
Tallinn is a two-hour ferry ride across the Bay of Finland from Helsinki. It was a charming place, though I suspect it's better when it's...
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Leigh Haubach
- Aug 27, 2019
- 2 min
Steamy Hot Helsinki
I arrived in Helsinki in a heat wave. The locals seemed completely delighted with the warm weather and kept jumping into the Baltic Sea....
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Leigh Haubach
- Jan 15, 2019
- 1 min
I Finally Saw a Leopard at Lake Manyara NP
Lake Manyara National Park gets mixed reviews. We had a great tour with lots and lots of animal sightings so I have no complaints.
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Leigh Haubach
- Jan 15, 2019
- 1 min
Around the Base of Mt. Kilimanjaro
I did not, and probably never will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. It's not technically too challenging, but it's really a high altitude issue for...
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Leigh Haubach
- Jan 7, 2019
- 2 min
Scuba Diving in Zanzibar
Zanzibar is a beautiful tropical island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Tanzania. It's technically part of Tanzania, but they have...
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Leigh Haubach
- Jun 22, 2018
- 3 min
Machu Picchu
So that's pronounced Ma-chu Peek-chu. And quinoa, by the way, is pronounced keen-OH-ah. That's according to some Inka descendants who...
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Leigh Haubach
- Jun 22, 2018
- 4 min
The Inka Trail
2500 People see Machu Picchu every day. You make your way to Cuzco, then take a nice train to Aguas Calientes and spend the night. The...
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Leigh Haubach
- Jun 21, 2018
- 2 min
Cuzco
June 6, 2018 My flight from Lima to Cuzco was fine, once we finally took off after sitting on the tarmac in Lima for two hours due to a...
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Leigh Haubach
- Jun 21, 2018
- 2 min
Lima
The Inka people really had it going on and as a warning, please note that the following contains images of ancient erotic art. I've been...
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Leigh Haubach
- Jun 1, 2018
- 1 min
Cape Town, Part 2
We had a lovely 2 hour flight back to Cape Town. We got a good meal despite being on a smaller jet! We saw a pan and lots of wide open...
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Leigh Haubach
- Jun 1, 2018
- 3 min
Victoria Falls
And finally, we got to the end of our tour. It had been a long 20 days. The good: seeing so many wild animals, meeting our fellow...
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Leigh Haubach
- May 30, 2018
- 2 min
Chobe National Park
We had a night in Nata, Botswana which was very pleasant. Our little cottage had a view of the bush complete with springbok, a bathtub...
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Leigh Haubach
- May 28, 2018
- 6 min
Okavango Delta
The Okavango Delta is an inland delta. What this means is that the Okavango River flows out through an immense grassland and disappears...
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