Our Stories

Travel is essentially about storytelling, about sharing what we discover of our global home.  This blog is about just that — the unusual, the unique, the gems  — from Tombée du Ciel, House Fallen from the Sky, to the ghost trees of India, to the Bolivian cemetery where trains are buried. There are countless stories, large and very small, that we come across as we travel the globe. It would be a shame to pass them by without notice.

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300 million steps makes a lifetime

Date: January 19, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

In the world of the zebra, where any misstep could be the last, hoofing it across Africa in search of...

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Look where we’ve been and where we’re going

Date: January 12, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Looking back over the last year, it was both challenging and exciting. We all saw our share of tragedies and...

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Season of celebration and sometimes silliness

Date: December 13, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Family households threw dice to determine who would become the temporary (much like Ashish) monarch during the festival of Saturnalia,...

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No, that can’t be right…

Date: December 8, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

A mother kicking her baby… But in the world of giraffes it’s true. A giraffe gives birth standing up and the...

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15 for 15

Date: December 1, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Nikki Visootha Lohitnavy is the first and only female winemaker of Thailand. A non-traditional woman in a non-traditional grape-growing region of...

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Colombiano

Date: November 17, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

In Colombia, people begin putting up holiday decorations as early as mid-October. Indeed, some homes and businesses leave the lights...

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Now breathe…

Date: November 10, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Relax, it’s over for now. Time to get back to basics and focus on the good stuff – the really...

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It’s getting late

Date: November 3, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

“You may delay, but time will not.”   So said the ever-wise Benjamin Franklin. Indeed, time is a precarious and...

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Go play with the cat….

Date: October 27, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

No more robo phone calls, no posters and signs gathered in clusters on every corner, no cell phones or social media....

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Five things to top your “to do” list for the day after elections

Date: October 20, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

After such a nerve-wracking presidential election cycle, many of us are ready to take a deep breath and move on....

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