Cerro Negro, an active volcano outside of León, Nicaragua, is one of the only places in the world where an adventure-junkie can volcano board on a wooden sled at speeds of 40 to 50 miles per hour.

My wife and I set up our September 2016 Nicaragua trip, ourselves. First we went to Tamarindo Beach, Costa Rica, for a half-marathon and zip-line tours. Then we took a bus to Granada, where we stayed with friends.

I’m a global adventure junkie and look for things to do that I...

Early in my life, I learned how much fun it is to travel. I’ve decided that a love for travel must be a genetic condition; my mom and dad both loved to travel.When I was a child, our family took summer vacations by automobile (before the interstate system), and by the time I was a teenager I had been in all of the lower 48 states.I first had the opportunity to travel outside of the United States when, as an 18-year-old ROTC midshipman, I spent six weeks on the USS Macon sailing from...

I flew from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Los Angeles in business class on Qatar Airways in February 2016, purchasing the flight with American Airlines miles. I just had to write about it.For sleeping, the seat on the Qatar flight reclined flat. The attendants provided both a mattress pad and a sparkling-white sheet along with two spotless and very comfortable pillows in cotton cases and a quilt wrapped in a white duvet. The cabin staff made up my bed, and after I had eight hours of sound sleep...