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Fall is upon us. You can feel the briskness in the air. You can see different colored leaves in the trees. As you walk down the sidewalk you can hear the crunch of the fallen leaves under your feet. It’s deer hunting season. Deer are scampering so they don’t get shot by hunters. You can go visit an apple orchard to buy donuts, apple cider and apples. Children are back to school giving their parents a needed break. Time to do the Christmas shopping before it snows. The stores will get busy soon. So much to do.

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For a feel of royalty while traveling through Madrid, you need not go far, just to the Palacio Real, or the Royal Palace. An astounding building, it has nearly 3000 rooms, not to mention it’s 40 staircases, and 240 balconies. When it comes to the magnitude of the building, it only comes second to Versailles.

When adding the palace to your tourist destinations, you will be amazed at its magnitude. While less than 10 percent of the palace is open to the public, you will not even be able to see that portion of the structure in a single day. What you will see is astounding attention to detail in construction and decoration from the lush tapestries to the rococo decorations including porcelain and other precious treasures

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Recently completing our 10 year anniversary of the inaugural Death Trip a couple weeks ago, we started reminiscing about previous trips. A common theme of unfortunate mishaps have come to the forefront having to do with our food preparation and cooking skills (or lack there of). Being the oldest and the founder of the Death Trips, I am the primary chef on these trips with my #1 backup, Drew. Now, we are no slouches around the campfire when it comes to cooking, but when quantity takes precedence over quality, with up to 8 guys eating, we have had our share of “learning experiences”. Over the past 10 years, we have learned:

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Have you ever left on a camping trip and realized you forgot one or more essential items? You had to drag yourself to the nearest store (20-30 miles) to find that item you forgot. This should be a reminder to check your supplies carefully before leaving next time. First time campers may not know what essentials to bring on their first trip so I have prepared a few tips that might save the heartache (and extra gallons of gas) of driving to the nearest store.

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It is almost considered the norm nowadays for people to take time out from their daily routine to experience perhaps a back-packing adventure around the world, or a trip to Australia for a year.

Indeed, the majority of holiday goers venture abroad. The attractions are obvious: guaranteed sunshine, golden sandy beaches and cheap beer.

It’s fair to say that the UK tourist industry finds it difficult to complete: if asked when they last had a holiday in the UK, substantial numbers of holidaymakers, many of whom would probably consider themselves well-travelled, might be left scratching their heads.

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When I read package labels in the supermarket, am I the only one who thinks I’m reading about “health” food? A food manufacturer makes his products low fat. That sounds healthy, right? Wrong. The products have so much sugar I could serve them for dessert.

I recently read that the average American eats two and a half pounds of sugar a week. First, who are these average Americans? If they eat that much sugar, shouldn’t they be easy to see? By eating natural sugar in things like apples - plus anything that means sugar because it ends in “ose” - plus man-made sugars like high fructose corn syrup, I supposedly see an average American every time I look in the mirror. How come if I’m constantly on a sugar high, I find this depressing?

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If you are female and either considering a divorce or already going through the process, then you need to read this article. Why? Because divorce is an emotional process to a business-like decision. Whether you have been married for 6 months or 40 years, you invested much of yourself emotionally. You probably entered this marriage believing ’til death do you part. Suddenly, you realize your life may not be including this person any longer.

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We left the hotel around 9 AM, equipped only with a map of the Preserve and directions from the hotel clerk heading toward the Chapleau Crown Game Preserve. A sign signaling the entrance to the Preserve was not seen. Seeing a picnic stop we turned into it just to take a peek. Before we realized it we saw a sign pointing to a road that, according to the map, was a few kilometers within the Preserve. We turned down that road. Now we knew we were in the Preserve. For several miles we had been on a gravel road which made for reasonable navigation. We later found the entrance sign located beside the road from Chapleau as you approached Aux Trois Moulins, the hotel where we were staying.

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On the largest island of the Philippines, Luzon rises the Taal Volcano, an active volcano located in San Nicolas and Talisay in Batangas. Consisting of an island in Lake Taal situated inside a caldera that was previously formed by an enormous eruption, the island volcano is about 50km from the city of Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

Taal Volcano has been erupting a large number of times and several of those times violently. These eruptions have caused loss of life and property in the vicinity with a considerable death toll estimated to be approximately 5000-6000 casualties. Despite the alarming numbers, it is considered to be an great place to visit when it is calm and in it’s less active state due to the elements that make this island quite unique.

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Proactively securing airport grounds requires strategic planning at the highest levels and access to critical information that serves to enhance safety measures for ground support crews. Without appropriate planning, implementation, and follow-through to ensure that a plan is producing the desired results, airport grounds exposure to deadly incursions is significantly increased.

Creating stopgap measures between incidences and securing airport ground environments is critical to a loss prevention program. In addition, incorporating proactive management components that include required safety training, regulatory safety integration measures, and proactive incident detection that include safety response tactics is equally important to sustain safe operating conditions. Finally, safety compliance verification, internal/external safety management, and disseminating critical safety information to create “proactive responses” for improved safety standards at airports is gaining congressional support.

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