My hand reached for the withered door. If the wood had consciousness, it would have thought it saw its reflection. Darkness was blown out by the breeze that flowed through my nostrils and lit up my eyes. I smiled while the world outside came into focus. …

Spring break can look wildly different through the lens of a 21-year-old versus a 40-some-year-old. Let’s call the 21-year-old’s adventure, Down the Road. “Pull off here; I have to take care of something,” Jimmy said. “Already? We just left!” I complained. This was my first spring stateside in three years…

Sometimes vacations bring a moment of panic. Our first family vacation that involved air travel had us flying the last leg on a small, bumpy flight with one row of single seats on one side of the plane. I sat in front of my six-year-old son, and behind him was…

Nature carved a fairyland beneath the rolling, wooded hills of rural West Liberty, Ohio. Nobody knew that over three miles of the most colorful caverns in America lie below, growing one drip at a time, undisturbed for ages. This countryside was ripe to have caverns carved by underground water eroding…

Locked Up & Lovin’ It At The Real Shawshank Prison … In Ohio! By Frank Rocco Satullo, The OhioTraveler, Your Tour Guide To Fun! They drove along Reformatory Drive, their attention captured by the stone monster flickering through the fence. One car was smothered amid a hundred bikers, all donning their leather cuts and club patch. The mass of vehicles slowly…

When Flight of Fancy Meets Coach Do you remember that first time you took notice of the white lines being drawn against the blue sky? “Look mummy; there’s an aeroplane up in the sky.” — Harry Waters (son of Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters), at the start of the song “Goodbye Blue Sky,” recorded for The Wall…

A rock hurtled through space at the right time, in the right place, and with all of the right conditions. A plant and animal emerged from the fertile soil over time. Both grew to blanket the earth. One day, the most powerful animal became so many that it hastily killed…

Science shows that it all came from one point of origin as if someone just snapped their fingers and said, “Let there be life.” And so there was. Yet most of what is around us is not even detected by us. …