Tour de France or Tour de Force |
Head-butts! Elbows to the ribs? Fist fights and tire bashings to the head! Illegal performance-enhancing drugs? Seven-time champions throwing in the towel! Is this WrestleMania? No, just the 2010 Tour de France. Ah, la vache! The Tour de France isn’t just a bicycle race. It is a physically demanding marathon that spans over 2,000 miles and 20 [...]
Petra: Raiders of The Lost City of Jordan |
In 1812, somewhere between Damascus and Cairo, desert Bedouins spoke of a legendary city. The magnificent ruins of this ancient city were all that remained of a po werful trade center that linked Western civilization and the Far East. Fluent in Arabic, young Swiss explorer Johann Burckhardt, set out to find this fabled crossroads. Upon [...]
Antarctica: The Naked Truth |
Antarctica is naked. Considered a desert, this white wasteland barely gets 8 inches of rain on its 5.4 million square miles of thick ice. Not many things can live on the coldest, driest, and windiest place on Earth. Human inhabitants are nonexistent. Except for the nudist colonies. Antarctica will get you nude. The continent doesn’t [...]
