28): When I traveled to Antarctica in the 1980s on an Argentine polar supply ship, my onshore experience included trips inland on sleds pulled by teams of dogs.
One could stay on the coast and make day trips inland, but it is far better to spend a few nights in a village and use that as your base.
Throw in a day trip inland to Jane Goodall's former chimp camp at Gombe before heading south on the Liemba to the Mahale mountains, which are about halfway to Mpulungu, at the southern end of the lake.
In late November, as the Yucatán experienced an unusual spell of cool weather, I boarded a second-class bus in downtown Cancún to begin a trip inland and underground, a half-dozen cenotes on my itinerary.
So once you have checked out the great barrier reef, take a trip inland (about 15 minutes from Port Douglas) for a tropical banquet beneath some of the oldest trees in the world and listen to the ancient fireside tales.
Infected elm veneer logs shipped from France to Ohio in 1931 brought the beetle to the United States, and within five years, scientists could trace the logs' trip inland along the railroad route.
But once the wood-grilling expert persuaded his European and American friends to make the trip inland -- Garz?s about 40 miles northeast of Punta del Este, the glamorous seaside resort -- word began to spread about the town's old-time charms: gauchos riding on horseback along tidy gravel streets, residents greeting one another by name, and children playing in a flower-filled central plaza.
From Kep you can also take a day trip slightly inland to the town of Kampot — with its own yellow-and-white French colonial buildings and riverside cafes — and the Bokor Hill Station.
ON Martinique, one of the highlights of the trip, eight of us hired a van for a trip through the inland rain forest and flower farms to St.-Pierre, destroyed in 1902 by Mount Pelee's eruption.
Certainly, anyone who spends time shuttling around Southern California's inland suburbs, where the round-trip commute to Los Angeles can be 100 miles a day, knows that buying gas from a station off any freeway is an express lane to pauperdom.
