Brewery: Berkshire Brewing CompanyLocation: 12 Railroad St., South Deerfield, MAThe Tour: 1:00 on Saturdays — and it’s FREE with two generous samples of whatever is on tap!Flagship Brew: The Steel Rail Ale. This beer is delicious, and is the closest competitor we’ve found yet to Lake Placid’s Ubu Ale.What to Bring: Either bring some snacks, [...]

A field of ferns outside Waterbury, Vermont, deep in the heart of the Green Mountains.

This week I came across an article highlighting the growing trend of poverty tours. The writer described a developing avenue of the tourism industry in which travelers connect with a local tour company that takes them around a slum for a few hours to show them what poverty looks like in the developing world. I [...]

Two whole weeks in Peru, and up until this point we had managed to avoid the temptation. On nearly every street corner, a gust of cinnamon-sugary-fried-dough-scented air tantalized our taste-buds until we could no longer resist. The realization that we would soon bid adios to South America, and along with it, to churros, just became [...]

The Presidential Palace of Peru along Lima’s Plaza de Armas.

I’m a total sucker for a nice green space within any concrete jungle — especially one as dense as Lima, Peru! Give me a patch of grass and a park bench and suddenly the towering buildings of the bustling metropolis miraculously cease to overwhelm. But in Lima’s Miraflores district, they definitely offer more than just [...]

Cusco’s Iglesia de Compañia Pay close attention. What you are about to learn could in fact make you a millionaire… seriously. Okay, probably not… but you never know. After all, you could be on Who Wants to be a Millionaire – facing the last question… and the potential of walking away with a million dollars [...]

The processional for the El Señor de los Milagros (Lord of the Miracles) makes its way through the streets of Cusco, Peru during the annual event held in October. Each year, Peruvians celebrate the preservation of the Lord of Miracles mural, which has survived vindictive attempts to destroy it, as well as natural disasters like [...]