Photos by Dian Thomas and Blaine Hobbes; article by Marv Hoole Marvelous varieties of tulips, and the other principal bulb flowers of crocuses, daffodils, and hyacinths, are grown privately and commercially all over The Netherlands. Their commercial cultivation, however, takes place mainly in Holland — the [...]
On March 12, 1992, I boarded a plane that was flying from Salt Lake City to San Diego. This flight was just another one of my weekly trips to California. I had made such trips for the past several years. The airport staff made seat assignments [...]
I learned from a sightless eighty-two-year-old man on the top of the Great Wall of China that the biggest adventure in life is to follow our dreams! For the past seven years, I have been a tour director for people traveling to China. In a recent [...]
High in the valleys of the Andes, visitors from around the world are able to explore the remains of the Inca civilization that was created in only 150 years. These amazing people worked between 1400 and 1535 A.D. when they were conquered by a few hundred [...]
My first trip to Peru was forty years ago. I was impressed then, but I am even more amazed at the people of Peru since I have been leading tour groups there for the past few years. There is a 78-year-old lady from South America that [...]
One of my favorite things in life has been to travel the world and learn. Every day is the most incredible learning experience. Earlier this year I went to Peru and heard a wonderful story about the Inca people who lived between 1400 AD to 1532 [...]
I will never forget standing by my Grandmother Lizzie Thomas’s bed when I was in the middle of my years at Brigham Young University. She had just taken a fall and broken her hip and was in a care center. She looked up at me [...]
My love for travel began when I was just five years old. My father was a forest ranger in Monticello, Utah. I remember going on many short trips over the Abajo Mountains, but the first big trip I remember was to Yellowstone National Park. I used [...]
BEIJING, China — On my first trip to China, which was about ten years ago, I was told that the Chinese people eat everything that has legs except a table. Long ago, the people were so poor that they ate anything they could find that [...]
This recipe is a snap to make and may be either a salad or a dessert. Children request it often, so they can help. 1 (1-pound 4-ounce) can pineapple chunks with juice 2 bananas, peeled and sliced 1 (11-ounce) can mandarin oranges, drained 1 (15-ounce) [...]
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