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Canadian Lindsay Salt takes a visit ‘overseas’: she leaves her Vancouver home and takes a ferry to Vancouver Island. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.

Nick Elvin recalls a journey into the Andes on a now-defunct rail service, the weekly freight train from Salta to Antofagasta: a trip through the Puna.

Of all the Caribbean islands, Jamaica is Lucy Barker’s favourite. From natural beauty to culture she explores the land that gave us reggae.

In a Covid year, Bonnie Lynn chooses a domestic trip. Riggins, Idaho proves the perfect place to bond with her grandchildren – with no quarantine involved.

Lindsay Salt heads to the deep south to meet the indigenous Acoma people who still call this inhospitable landscape home. All photos, as ever, by David Grimble.

San Miguel de Allende’s greatest fiesta celebrates their own patron saint, San Miguel. Elizabeth von Pier takes to the streets.

Lindsay Salt finds the uphill challenges outweighed by the downhill whizzing as she tours the volcanoes, churches and coffee plantations of America’s Pacific outpost. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.

A hike around the desert between the Mojave and Colorado deserts proves something of a highlight from Lindsay Salt’s visit to Palm Springs. Photographs, as ever, by David Grimble.

California’s sunniest city has, as it’s premier tourist draw, perhaps it’s darkest attraction. Claire Delano visits its island prison.

Volunteering can be a hard business. Tyrel Nelson reflects on his few months spent building a school in the Mexican city of Xiloxochico.

Baja California Sur is that thousand-mile tail of Mexico dangling down in the Pacific, creating the Sea of Cortez and whose capital is La Paz. Lindsay Salt explores, with photos, as ever, by David Grimble.

Eric Whitehead explores Grasslands National Park near Canada’s American border and finds plenty of beauty and wildlife galore.

Warren Bratter finds fluent Spanish transforms his Airbnb adventure in Costa Rica, allowing him to join in fully with village life.

Puebla. sounds like a village but it’s Mexico’s fourth-largest city. And an excellent place for Bonnie Lynn to take an immersion course in language learning, finally mastering her Espagnol.

No longer should your diet put you off cruising. Jill Rachel Jacobs boards a cruise for a culinary experience in Vegan living.

There are no roads to Stehekin, a remote outpost near Canada in the USA’s Washington State. Your options are horseback, seaplane or, for Lindsay Salt, boat. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.

Bhupenda Gupta finds beautiful scenery and a light touch of tourism as he tours Jasper, one of Canada’s scenic wonders.

South America’s largest and most populous countries takes plenty of exploring. João Santos reviews four of the best cities to visit in Brazil.

Lindsay Salt explores Colorado’s natural beauty, bought to life with photos by David Grimble.

Lucy Barker experiences La pura Vida

Eric Whitehead has visited every State in America, but Arizona is one of his favourites. So he returns to take a hike.

Lindsay Salt finds there’s still snow piled up when she visits Colorado’s historic narrow-gauge railway linking Durango with Silverton. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.

From British Colombia Eric Whitehead heads west, to the isolated First Nations outpost of Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off the mainland where the past is allowed to hold sway.

When Teja travels to Easter Islands the locals do a double-take. Southeast Asian and a Muslim? Now that’s something new.

Bonnie Lynn bonds with the great cetaceans as she visits a whale sancturary on Mexico’s coast,

Eric Whitehead continues his journey north into Canada’s most remote Northwest Territories and finds the road surface quickly deteriorates.

Misled by maps, Teja assumes Easter Island will be small enough to walk around. It isn’t. But with no money for a rental car she sets off on foot anyway.

Northwest Canada’s a bad place to be stranded when your plane breaks down. Not least if you’re chasing Caribou and weighed down with 700lbs of camera equipment. Peter Mather straps on his skis.

Lindsay Salt finds culture and adventure on Mexico’s Yucutan Peninsula, with Mayan ruins mixing with natural wonders. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.

There’s so much to see in North America it’s hard to know where to start. Jack Carter says the major urban hubs are a good introduction.

Paul Woollacombe finds plenty of reasons to visit America’s most glamorous State, Well, five, anyway.

Armed with a new University degree, Caleb González plunges into Mexican street food, unveiling a cuisine and a culture all at the same time.

Mexico proves an excellent winter getaway for Bonnie Lynn, who finds there’s plenty to do beyond the beach.

Hurricane Irma devastated Tortola, leaving yachts wrecked across the island. But Claire Shefchick reports that the local yachties refused to give up on their annual race.

Eric Whitehead can’t miss the temptation of a good long road. Here he drives across Canada from Dawson City to Inuvik.

The gem of Central America, Costa Rica, finds Adam Jacot de Boinod one of it’s most enthusiastic and appreciative guests.

Bhupender Gupta finds his Alaskan cruise an ideal way to reach Juneau.

Bhupender Gupta sets off on a reassuringly expensive cruise that leaves Vancouver and heads up to Ketchikan.