Wisetrips Travel Blog

I always like rafting down white water and decided to try it out with the Adventure Connection company near Placerville, CA. A good deal was published on Travelzoo - $79 per ticket, so I decided to give it a shot. The trip is scheduled to start at 10:00 and end at 16:00 with lunch in between, covering 13 miles of class 1-3 rapids in the South Fork of the American River. The drive from San Jose to Coloma was surprisin…

Steve, a good friend, suggested that Alex, Inna, and I would enjoy participating in a Marine Science Ecotour in Redwood City. It would allow me to explore some of the native marine life in the San Francisco Bay and to see firsthand the work that marine biologists do. With Steve's help, we purchased tickets and headed for the voyage. Thanks for signing up for our 2 Hour Discovery Eco-Voyage! …

My wife purchased me a LivingSocial Voucher for Father's Day for a 3-hour Kiteboarding lesson with SG Kiteboarding . The beginner lessons cover flying the kite for the first few hours and self-rescue techniques. The lesson took place with two other participants at Caesar Chavez Park in Berkeley, CA. We learned to properly launch and control a kite by shifting the pressure on the control bar. The les…

On the Tallink Baltic Queen ferry, we sailed from Tallinn, Estonia, to Stockholm, Sweden, around 10:00 a.m. We had a tiny cabin on the ferry, sufficient for the one-day sail. Alex and I had separate top bunks, and Inna slept on the bottom bunk. There was not much room for anything else. Our luggage blocked the way out (but what can you do?) We went to the ferry's buffet for breakfast, which was mediocre…