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Africa: The Best Safari Destinations

April 28, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Author’s note: This is a guest post written on behalf of Wild Africa, an Australian tour company. To learn more about Wild Africa, please click here. Africa – The Best Safari Destinations A trip to Africa will be filled with excitement wherever you go. With such extraordinary wildlife on display and incredible desert landscapes, you want to make the most of your trip by seeing all that you can. Africa is so vast and varied it is difficult to decide where […]

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Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, BLOGGING, Guest Posts, Safari, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: Adventure, Africa, Botswana, CULTURE, Safari, Tanzania, Travel, Wild Africa, Zambia

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“Race Me To The Pole” Expedition: One Man’s Journey to the North Pole for Charity

April 9, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Sometimes you get one of those emails in your inbox that make you smile and burst with enthusiasm. Last week, I received just that kind of exciting email from a woman named Hannah who reads my blog, and asked if I would be interested in sharing her friend Gavin’s story. Without hesitation, I instantly agreed as Gavin’s adventure to the North Pole rates right up there with the kind of amazing travel and giving back philosophy that prompted me to […]

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, ADVOCACY, Moving Mountains Trust, SOCIAL GOOD, Trekking/Hiking • Tags: Adventure, Advocacy, Expedition, Gavin Bate, Moving Mountains Trust, North Pole, Race me to the Pole, Social Good, UK

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The curious things I found in Honduras

January 7, 2013 by thirdeyemom

I’ve only been in Honduras for three days now yet I’ve already managed to see a lot of surprises especially since I’ve come to the mainland. I will write more about my trip later however in case you are curious to see the curious things I found to date in Honduras, here you go…. First stop, the lovely tropical island of Roatan off the coast of Honduras which is more like the Caribbean than Central America. My new friends include…. […]

Categories: Honduras, La Ceiba, Roatan, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: Adventure, CULTURE, Honduras, La Ceiba, Photography, Roatan, thirdeyemom, Travel

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Hola Honduras!

January 5, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Hola! I made it to Honduras! After a brutal 3 am wake up for a 5 am flight, I finally made it to paradise early this afternoon. I had no idea what to expect of Roatan, one of the popular, touristy Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras. But wow I’m surprised. It is absolutely beautiful and nothing like I imagined. In fact, it is hard to believe I’m even in Central America. It has a very Caribbean feel with […]

Categories: Honduras, Roatan, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: Adventure, CULTURE, Honduras, Photography, Roatan, thirdeyemom, Travel

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My Guatemalan Adventure: Day 1

March 15, 2012 by thirdeyemom

I landed in Guatemala City on an excessively windy day on Sunday, March 4th.  After a fitful night’s sleep at a mediocre airport hotel I was ready to leave Houston and finally continue my way south to Guatemala.  I had the usual feelings of excitement and anticipation which I always get before I land in a new country and enter into the mayhem it brings.  The whole bag of usual mixed thoughts raced across my mind. What would it be […]

Categories: Antigua, CULTURE, Guatemala, INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER WORK, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: Adventure, Casa Xelaju, CULTURE, Guatemala, Guatemala City, learning Spanish, life, living with host family in Guatemala, Photography, Quetzaltenango, thirdeyemom, Travel, Xela

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Day hike in Waimangu Volcanic Valley

February 26, 2012 by thirdeyemom

With an unexpected, unplanned day ahead of us due to bad weather at the Tongariro Crossing (see earlier post), we discussed our options with our B&B hosts Peter and Grace who enthusiastically informed us of nearby Waimangu Volcanic Valley located near Rotorua. Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley is the hydrothermal system created on 10 June 1886 by the volcanic eruption of Mount Tarawera, on the North Island of New Zealand. It encompasses Lake Rotomahana, the former site of the Pink and White Terraces. It was the […]

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, New Zealand, North Island, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Trekking/Hiking • Tags: Adventure, CULTURE, Hiking, New Zealand, North Island, thirdeyemom, Travel, Waimangu Volcanic Valley

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The tramp that wasn’t meant to be

February 25, 2012 by thirdeyemom

The Tongariro Alpine Crossing in Tongariro National Park is one of New Zealand‘s most spectacular tramping tracks, and is considered the most popular one-day tramp in New Zealand.   The Tongariro National Park is a World Heritage site which has the distinction of dual status, as it has been acknowledged for both its natural and cultural significance. The crossing passes over the volcanic terrain of the multi-cratered active volcano Mt Tongariro, passing the eastern base of Mt Ngauruhoe which can optionally be climbed as a side trip.  The 19.4 km (12.0 […]

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, Lake Taupo, New Zealand, North Island, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Trekking/Hiking • Tags: Adventure, CULTURE, Lake Taupo, life, New Zealand, North Island, thirdeyemom, Tongariro Crossing, Travel, trekking

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A three generational ski trip

February 20, 2012 by thirdeyemom

As you have probably gathered from my last few posts, I did something very special over the last few days.  Me, my father and my five-year-old daughter Sophia took a three-generational ski trip to Taos, New Mexico.  It was the first time (except when Sophia was a meager four-months old) that I had ever truly traveled alone with my daughter and it also was the first time the three generations got together for a weekend away.  My son and husband […]

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, New Mexico, Skiing, Taos, Taos Valley Ski Resort, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: Adventure, CULTURE, family, Family vacations, life, New Mexico, PARENTING & FAMILY, skiing, Taos, thirdeyemom, Travel

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Skiing the Ridge

February 18, 2012 by thirdeyemom

It’s something of a paradox. The more untamed, untrampled a place, the more it seems to soothe the soul. Even as it races the heart. – Advertisement of skiing the Ridge in the Taos Visitor Guide. Taos Ski Valley view from Kachina Peak at the Ridge. A ski purist heaven that only recently opened its doors to snowboarding two years back. Today I became an official “Ridgehead”. I climbed and skied the Ridge, a no man’s land of off piste […]

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, Skiing, Taos Valley Ski Resort • Tags: Adventure, CULTURE, Nature, New Mexico, skiing, Sports, Taos, thirdeyemom, Travel

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Learning to fly in New Zealand

February 11, 2012 by thirdeyemom

I should have been concerned when we were about to book our day of pure kiwi-style adventure in Queenstown and the tour agent informed us that the day before there was “a wee bit of drama“.  But I was young, childless and full of that intense wild and crazy adventure that lead me to brush aside the fact that a woman and her “pilot” were in the hospital, barely alive, after crashing and free-falling thirty feet just after take-off on […]

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, CULTURE, New Zealand, Queenstown, South Island, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: Adventure, CULTURE, New Zealand, Queenstown, South Island, thirdeyemom, Travel

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Thirdeyemom: Traveling and exploring the world with a third-eye

I am a writer and blogger about travel, culture and social good. I advocate for the UN Foundation's Shot@Life, RESULTS (to end global poverty) and ONE. I write and edit the Social Good and Human Rights column for World Moms Blog. I also contribute to Broken Light Photography, Elephant Journal and Open Salon. I reside in Minneapolis, MN with my husband and two children. 

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