Headed to London this spring for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee or the summer Olympics? If you happen to meet Her Royal Majesty the Queen, you'll need to know how to curtsey.

Recently, British etiquette expert William Hanson was sent to Manhattan to teach Americans just that, in the hopes of...

During a three-hour bear tour in Whistler, British Columbia, I saw five bears. Michael Allen, my guide, has been following bears for 28 years, the last twelve of them in Whistler. He knows each bear by name, age and characteristics and leads fifteen bear tours a week in Whistler from...

I've come to Jackson Hole because winter is the best time to view wildlife in Grand Teton National Park and I'm incredibly eager to see and photograph the wide variety of furry species that call the massive sanctuary home.

On my first day wandering the park with photographer and naturalist...

We've all experienced annoying airport flight delays, but most of the time we never learn the reason for the hold-up. However, on a recent American Airlines flight from Dallas to Jackson Hole http://www.jacksonhole.com/indexx.html the Captain himself gave us a little too much information, leading me to wonder if...

This year's 100th anniversary of the discovery of Machu Picchu is going to make the Citadel, Sacred Valley and Cusco extremely crowded, so if you're planning a trip to Peru and you dislike crowds, avoid those destinations.

Instead, explore the Peru where there are far fewer tourists. Walk through...

Juanita, also known as "The Ice Maiden," is a frozen 12-year-old Inca girl. She was chosen to pacify the gods of Mount Ampato near Arequipa, Peru around 1440. It was customary for the Incas to chose a child at birth to be raised as an offering to the gods....

When it comes to a city that has it all, consider Vancouver. It has beauty, a waterfront, art, culture, delicious food, and a plethora of fun things to do. Here are my favorites:

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It's Sunday morning and I'm huffing and puffing up the Grouse Grind a 2.9-kilometer climb on Grouse Mountain near Vancouver. I'm trying to see how fast I can climb because it's my last day in Canada and I can recover on the long plane ride home.

It's...

Sitting behind the wheel of a Bentley Flying Spur Speed Series 51 Sedan, I feel like I am flying as I hit the Palisades Parkway headed to Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, NY, one of the world's leading sculpture parks. My last test-drive of a Bentley Continental...

Highway to Heaven: what an ideal name for a road where every building is a church, temple, mosque, synagogue or religious educational school. But then, not so surprising because Vancouver's Richmond is a melting pot of multi-cultural diversity. In the late 1880s, the Japanese came to fish; the Chinese came...

I plunge into the 32-degree waters off Bell Island, Newfoundland and descend with my dive buddy to the S.S. Saganaga. This former iron ore carrier -- along with the S.S. Lord Strathcona, S.S. Rose Castle, and the PLM-27 -- was torpedoed by the German submarine U-513 during World War II....

Forrest Fenn, a famous Santa Fe art dealer, claims he has hidden a treasure chest containing $2 million worth of antique gold coins, gold nuggets, pre-Columbian gold animal figures, and jewelry (including an important archeological find he won in a pool game) in the deserts of the southwest.

In 1998,...

Splat.

Ten miles into the ride, cycling as fast as I could through a muddy stream in Atlantic Canada, my tire slipped on a cantaloupe-sized rock and I fell to the side of the trail. My legs were muddy but, amazingly, my loaner kilt didn't have a splotch and...

"Remember, give'r till ya shiver," says the man responsible for my safety just before I jump off a boat into freezing water.

I've come to the most easterly point in North America in the hope of having an up close and personal experience with whales. To call the water...

The weather was balmy and the sun had not yet set as I strolled up the stairs towards Lincoln Center for the final evening performance of the former Kirov Ballet, now the Mariinsky. The fountain in the center of the plaza shot water forty feet into the air and children...

Ysaye M. Barnwell, a member of Sweet Honey and the Rock, is chanting to me and 33 others at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies where I am taking a weekend workshop with Ysaye and Anthropologist/musician, George Brandon.

Burnt out from work, I needed a retreat:...

If you're one of the unlucky ones who has not yet seen the Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (now extended till August 7th),...

Fourth Grade class in Bulgi, South Gobi, Mongolia
Photographs by Margie Goldsmith

Badral, my guide, led me towards the 4th grade classroom in the small town of Bulgi in the South Gobi Province of Mongolia, a country of 28 million animals and...

In December of 1963, realist painter Adolf Konrad planned to travel to Rome and Egypt, so he made a packing list -- not quite the kind of list you or I might make -- Kondrad's was a water-color painted into his sketchbook. On one...

J.K. Terrell Jamming with the Daddy Rich Band at Ground Zero, Clarksdale

Southerners love their blues the way we New Yorkers love our Broadway. And no matter where I go in the south -- Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, I can never get enough of...