RSS
|
Vision QuestsSpiritual Retreats in West Coast, United States This is a contemporary experience based on ancient vision quests that act as a rite of passage essentially to understanding your personal link with nature. The quests usually have a duration of twelve days and the process includes fasting, solitude, poetry, ceremonial drumming and dance. Together with exercises to open up your psyche these practices are intended to separate you from everyday consciousness to enable self-discovery.
The Animas Valley Institute runs several quest trips every year to locations such as Death Valley in California, Cortez in Colorado or Lima in Montana. All the settings are remote and the focus of the quests is on healing, renewal and empowerment.
0 comments
Send to a friend
Review by |
|
The Haunted Queen MaryParanormal in Los Angeles, United States Cunard White Star Line launched the RMS Queen Mary in 1936, with the intention of making her part of the first weekly express Southampton to New York service.
Construction began in 1930 by John Brown and Company in Scotland, but was abandoned during the Great Depression in 1931 and not recommenced until 1934, when Cunard and White Star merged as a condition of the loan given to them to complete the ship.
At 80,774 gross tonnes she was the second largest ocean liner of her time and despite a traditional design both in terms of engineering and interior design, she proved to be the fastest and most popular.
The ship was employed in transporting troops during World War II alongside her sister ship, the Queen Elizabeth, and the two were dubbed 'the Grey Ghosts' because of their new grey camouflage paint, their intrepid avoidance of German U-boats and their speedy unescorted passages to and from Australia and New Zealand with up to 15,000 men aboard.
After an adventurous role in the war, the Queen Mary served as a passenger liner for another twenty years and then retired to her final berth in Long Beach, California. She functioned as a museum for some time, and plans are in place for a hotel, restaurants, a marina and shops.
The ghost stories only began after the Queen Mary retired and have been used to commercial advantage ever since, making it difficult to differentiate between exaggerations, inventions and apparently genuine paranormal occurrences. They include the ghost of an 18-year-old fireman who was crushed by an engine room door during a fire drill, the spirits of small children crying in what used to be the third-class nursery, and a phantom dog howling for its dead owner.
0 comments
Send to a friend
Review by Photo by flickr user Jef Poskanzer |
|
National Finals RodeoFestivals in Las Vegas, United States If you fancy yourself as a cowboy or girl don your stetsons and boots and come down to the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas in December where you can see what a real cowboy can do. This ten day rodeo competition to find the best of rodeo best has bull riding, steer wrestling, saddle bronc riding, and bare back riding competitions and is attended by more than 50,000 people. The final night draws sell out crowds of more than 18,000, so you’ll need to get your tickets early if you’re hoping to be there. If you can’t get in the event is televised nationally. Many Vegas hotel and casinos take on a western theme for the event and country and western stars headline many local cabarets and showrooms.
0 comments
Send to a friend
Review by Photo by flickr user zoonabar |
|
Pearl HarborBattlefields in Honolulu, United States Like other sites of major incidents of warfare, Pearl Harbour must be spoken about in two different ways: as Hawaii’s largest natural harbour enclosed by green volcanic hills and as a place lodged in the history of human warfare. The bombing of this major American military port was what charged America to finally enter the war and eventually to the dropping of the atomic bombs which flattened Nagasaki and Hiroshima and finished WWII. Two waves of attack totalling more than 350 individual bombers were let loose on Pearl Harbour wrecking half of the US’s Pacific fleet including a mineship, two destroyers and two battleships damaged beyond repair and killing around 2,500 men and injuring another 1,200. The time, 7:48am and date December 7 1941 (interestingly for the Japanese the time and date are 3:18am on the 8th of December.) are now legend. Totally unprepared many men were woken to the sounds of bombs, planes were parked in tight formation, many artillery stores were locked shut and many ship board guns were unmanned during the entire battle. Some ships managed to fight back or flee, famously the destroyer USS Aylwin was got underway with only four very junior officers on board. Only two ships the USS Utah and USS Arizona are still on the sea floor, though stripped of most of their weaponry. A figure of 20,000 hours diving time was reported during the rescue mission in terrible visibility due to the loss of oil and petrol and men in the water. Pearl Harbour is still a US deep water military base today. Scars and memorials include the US Ensign which is floated over Arizona on a white shrine which straddles the ship underwater, 250 people can stand on it and it is decorated with the names of all the men who died in the attack. An opening in the deck gives visitors a chance to see the Arizona’s wreck beneath. On shore is a more expansive memorial picking apart the events of the attack , many plaques and a visitors centre.
0 comments
Send to a friend
Review by Photo by flickr user Manicosity |
,,400,,images,flickrcache,1_3114_2586155058_2fd12bcbd9.jpg)
|
The Dead Toreador (Manet)Works of Art in Washington D.C., United States Highly critical comments directed at Edouard Manet's painting Incident in a Bullfight, which he had entered in the Salon of 1864, prompted him to cut the painting apart...The Dead Toreador in the National Gallery of Art would have made up most of the lower left part of the original composition. www.nga.gov/feature/toreador... This painting can be seen at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
0 comments
Send to a friend
Review by Photo by flickr user Mr. T in DC |
Archives by Month
Archives by Country |
Popular entries |
About usStuck at your desk? Gazing out at those grey skies and imagining you are somewhere else? I want to go here is all about inspiring you to do something different - about encouraging you to check out a new experience or destination. It's simple - we post something new every day. If you like the look of it, send it to a couple of friends. If not, wait and see what tomorrow brings. And if it gets past the fantasy stage, we'll soon have links to research the experience further, but you can also send us an email, and we'll tell you where to look or book next. |