I returned from a 3-week tour of Ethiopia on Feb. 7, ’05. Imagine my surprise the next morning to find that a featured article (Feb. ’05, pg. 52) in my new ITN was about the Omo Valley, where I had just spent a week.

My travel reservations were made through Adventures Abroad (1124 Fir Ave., Blaine, WA 98230, phone 800/665-3998), with the ground arrangements handled by Green Land Tours (P.0. Box 19018, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; phone 251-1-63-25-97 or fax 251-1-63-25-951). Total tour...

Nestled in the hills outside of Nagoya, Honshu Island, Japan — and running through Sept. 25 of this year — the 21st century’s first international exposition, EXPO 2005 Aichi, is crawling with robots: a marching Dixieland band, a Tyrannosaurus rex, a lovely but animated “Actroid” who answers questions in English, Japanese, Korean and Chinese and, for active mothers, a child-care robot. There are more, and they represent the future. A well-preserved frozen mammoth and the recently discovered...

Roatán, a well-known destination in the scuba diving community, is an undiscovered jewel in most other circles. Part of Honduras’ Bay Islands chain, which consists of three islands and 60 islets and cayes, Roatán is the largest island, situated in the Caribbean 35 miles north of the Honduran mainland.

Adventure begins

In January ’05 my husband, John, and I flew on Grupo Taca (phone 800/400-8222 or visit www.taca.com) from San Francisco to San Salvador, continuing to Roatán...