Margie Goldsmith

I feel a tug on my line.

"It's a brown!" says Darin Schildknect, the fishing guide whom I've hired on Lake Taneycomo, which runs through the heart of Branson, Missouri. "Reel it in."

Too late. It's gone.

"What did I do wrong?" I ask him.

"You have...

On February 20, 1962, John Glenn's spacecraft landed in the Atlantic Ocean near the Turks and Caicos. Glenn liked the sleepy islands so much that he returned to spear fish and scuba dive. He returned for the same reason I decided to go, the vibrant life in the water.

"Make a pizza," says Bobbi, skiing backwards and holding onto my ski poles. I push my legs out so my skis are in a wedge. "Now French fries," she orders. I close my skis so they're parallel.

This is ridiculous. Maybe this is how you teach kids to ski,...

During a recent winter wildlife safari to Grand Teton and Yellowstone I saw bison galloping across a path directly in front of me, elk, big horned sheep, bald eagles, coyotes and a fox. I didn't have enough time to get to Lamar Valley, so much to my chagrin,...

He's at it again. The shameless stud who has fathered 25 since 1995 is about to mate with his newest gal pal, Xena. This male is so shameless you can find him in flagrante delicto on the Fifth Avenue apartment terraces above Central Park. This is Pale Male, New York...

On March 1, the Welsh people will be wearing either leeks or daffodils in celebration of their Dewi Sant, or St. David, who died on March 1, 589 A.D. Leeks might seem a strange choice, but in Welsh, "Cenhinen" means leek and "Cenhinen Pedr" means daffodil. The similarities of the...

In person, Victoria Beckham is skinny. Anna Wintour OBE is even skinnier. At least that was my impression yesterday at the "GREAT" Britain campaign, in which both were featured at Grand Central's 42nd Street subway shuttle.

At the event, HRM The Queen's Ambassador to the United States, Sir Peter...

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...