Des Moines (Global Adventures): The 38th edition of the Des Moines Register’s Annual Great Ride Across Iowa (Ragbrai) is coming July 25 through 31, 2010. Ragbrai was started in 1973 by columnists Donald Kaul and John Karras who thought it would be fun to ride their bikes across the state of Iowa.  They invited people [...]

Falmouth (Global Adventures): The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that triggered disastrous destruction and mounting death tolls in Haiti occurred in a highly complex tangle of tectonic faults near the intersection of the Caribbean and North American crustal plates, according to a quake expert at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Jian Lin, a senior scientist in [...]

Ashdod, Israel (Global Adventures): A recent diving accident linked to Oxygen poisoning brings Israel’s Shayetet 13, an elite naval Special Forces unit, some unwanted publicity. 19 year old Sergeant Gal Azoulay died at the Ashdod Port early December 7. During a routine diving exercise which was supposed to last two to three hours, Azoulay's diving [...]

Atlanta (Global Adventures): London, New York City, Paris and Dublin are among the Top-50 destinations American and Canadian travelers are considering in 2010. Travel search site Skyscanner just published the Top 50 most searched for destinations from Canadian and the US airports, based on searches from US and Canadian airports for travel in 2010, using [...]

Guatemala (Global Adventures): Scuba divers are exploring the depths of a volcanic lake in Guatemala to find clues about an ancient sacred island where Mayan pilgrims flocked to worship before it was submerged by rising waters. Samabaj, the first underwater archaeological ruins excavated in Guatemala, were discovered more or less accidentally 12 years ago by [...]