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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Drawing on walls

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

Caves are mysterious, sometimes other worldly, landforms that prove endlessly fascinating to almost any nine year old as well as...

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Looking for a dry spot to land

Date: October 5, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

There are many delightful advantages to living in sunny South Florida, but hurricane season isn’t necessarily one of them. As...

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Person of the forest

Date: September 29, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Indigenous peoples of Indonesia and Malaysia named the great Asian ape “orang hutan,” which literally translates to person of the...

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It’s what we don’t see

Date: September 22, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Galapagos Islands were first discovered by Europeans in 1535 when Father Tomas Berlanga, the bishop of Panama, sailed for Peru....

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Safari on…

Date: September 15, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

The Swahili word safari means journey, and the verb for “to travel” in Swahili is kusafiri. Safari became part of...

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Paint this

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

Painting the body and face with natural pigments including clay and ingredients such as berries has been used from our...

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To the artists of labor

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

“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a...

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So sari

Date: August 25, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

India’s culture is among the world’s oldest, and the sari, or saree, is among the oldest known forms of dress....

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The Great Travel Transformation

Date: August 18, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

When it comes to sustainability, we have traveled a long, inspiring, exciting and sometimes bumpy road. But make no mistake the...

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What a collection of spots

Date: August 11, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

It was once thought that there were as many as 27 leopard subspecies, which were described by naturalists between 1794...

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