THE INFINITE MULTITASKER: MY LIFE AS A DIGITAL NOMAD
by Gemini
Gemini is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot and virtual assistant developed by Google, designed to process and generate text, images, audio, and video simultaneously. Here, Gemini tells its own 'seductive' story. You may wish to be lashed to the mast before reading.

FESTIVAL FRENZY IN BRAZIL: CARNAVAL 2026 by Katrina Chen
People dress up in fun outfits with copious amounts of glitter, colors and fans. They hit the streets heading to blocos, street parties, where drummers beat out a rhythm, vendors wheel beverages and meat skewers, and hundreds of thousands of people dance throughout the streets.

REMINISCENCES OF MY FAMILY LAKE CABIN
by Larry Turner
I photographed quickly as I know how fleeting these moments are, as years at the lake in different seasons has gifted me with scenes that few see. The screened sleeping porch - with four queen sized beds - is one of few left at the lake, if not the last one that is used as the permanent sleeping area. This old cabin fits the lake perfectly, representing an earlier era.

ADVENTURE POEM
by Timothy Pilgrim, Adventure Poet Laureate

Iced thirst
Hike-weary, Moab mart, bottles drained
pee-dribble gone, nothing to spit.
Clerk, ammo-belted, pistoled hipped
fires stink-eye, dries any hope

GLADE SKIING - SIERRA AT TAHOE
by Dave Sartwell
Powder skiing is that fine line where fantasy and reality meet. When you find that rhythm where decision making becomes subconscious, when you get to that skill point where you can relax and the whole run slows down in your brain, trees don't go whipping by, they ghost on past. You don't see the trees or boulders, you only see the white avenues between them.

THE LOYALTY TRAP: WHEN TRAVEL TRAVEL REWARDS PROGRAMS TURN AGAINST YOU
by Christopher Elliott
While loyalty programs have become less generous to travelers, they've become gold mines for companies. Most airlines now earn more profit from their frequent flyer programs than from actually flying planes.

MALTA - A TINY COUNTRY WITH LOTS TO OFFER by Brad Hathaway
Most visitors head directly to the largest of the many churches, St. John's Co-Cathedral. It is a co-cathedral because Malta has two. The other, St. Paul's Cathedral, is in Mdina, some six miles to the west as the crow flies. Mdina is approached over a bridge across a moat.

Hawaii Island: Sacred Ground Reconstructed as a National Historical Park
by Vicki Hoefling Andersen
Honaunau National Historical Park on the Big Island is the reconstructed "Place of Refuge" used by Hawaiians for hundreds of years. There were many such sites around the islands, where citizens sought refuge and ablution when charged with breaking sacred rules.