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Photo by Suzanne Morphet The young man from the U.K. is most apologetic. "I wish you were able to see the resort at its best—it's a very special place," he says wistfully.

Shutterstock.com Lexicographer Samuel Johnson famously mused: "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.

Morning bread and wine are the preferred refreshment on this Italian Riviera excursion

Thailand's isolated coast

PHOTO BY GAIL JOHNSON If life is short, vacations are even shorter. Travelling to the Yukon might seem like one of those trips you need a week or two to even consider, but it's possible to make an epic long weekend of it.

Bran Castle in Brașov, Romania. SHUTTERSTOCK We are driving along narrow, winding roads through dense, dark, ancient forests and over steep mountain passes through the Carpathian Mountains in Transylvania.

"To be 'fearless' means nothing. When you have fears, and you conquer those fears, that's courage." Former U.S. Navy SEAL diver Stephen Kaplan was talking to my teenage son while bobbing in the warm, blue water off Oahu's west coast in Hawaii.

Trekking the iconic alpine route of stunning vistas, mountain passes and flower filled meadows

By Amber Turnau British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest is more than a place—it's a sensory voyage.

Monkey. Photo by Karin Leperi There's a place in southern Peru called the Nazca Plain. Classified as a coastal desert, it is one of the driest places on Earth, getting less than 2.5 centimetres of rain a year.