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Silverleaf's Seaside

houston, Texas

December 9, 2002

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Best Things Nearby:The beach is just across the road. There are historical homes in Galveston and many of them offer tours for a small price.Best Things About the Resort:It's fairly new so the units haven't gotten over used. Because the resort is ...Read more

Unit Type: 2 Bedroom
Activities: Fair
Amenities: Fair
Unit Satisfaction: Good
Family Friendliness: Fair
Service: Fair

From journal Seaside fun in Galvestion

Chobe Game Lodge

by Peregrine

, New Mexico

April 15, 2002

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Best of IgoUgo Even in the lap of luxury (Liz Taylor and Richard Burton spent honeymoon #2 here) there are rules. Don’t leave the windows and doors to your room open because the monkeys will get in and trash it. Don’t pet the warthogs, they just look cute, but ...Read more Even in the lap of luxury (Liz Taylor and Richard Burton spent honeymoon #2 here) there are rules. Don’t leave the windows and doors to your room open because the monkeys will get in and trash it. Don’t pet the warthogs, they just look cute, but those tusks mean business.

Then there are more subtle reminders that you have left civilization behind. The monkeys who leap onto your breakfast table to steal fruit, the night noises you can’t quite identify, the stories you hear in the bar, like the guide who told us the closest she had come to being killed by an elephant was when she walked right into a large bull while making her way to the dining room one evening. Oops! I must admit I kept a wary eye on the shadows as we made our way along the dimly lit path to our room that night.

Said room, like most of them, was in one of the outer buildings on either side of the main lodge. It was large, comfortable and furnished in Rhodesian teak. The walls were covered with local art and the requisite mosquito netting drifted around the bed. We had a large balcony with lounge chairs where we could relax and watch the warthogs circumvent the fence built to keep them off the grass. Despite their concentrated effort, the grounds are beautifully maintained and nearly every bush bloomed with color. The lodge itself is long and low with wide arches and tile floors – all the guidebooks call the style Moorish – and most of the public spaces are open to the outside. They have a beautiful pool surrounded with flowering bushes, a gift shop with the usual t-shirts, baseball caps, and books on local flora and fauna (I bought one of each of the above), as well as absolutely exquisite gold jewelry way out of my price range.

After cleaning up from our evening drives, we made a habit gathering in the bar upstairs, where we could swap lies about the day or shoot a little pool while waiting for the “dinner bell” – native drums played by local drummers. The cuisine is mostly Continental and I was told all the food was brought in from South Africa. The variety is plentiful, lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. The food is served buffet style, but in the morning, you could order fabulous omelets whipped up right in front of you, and in the evening there were waiters to carve your meat to order.

The restaurant is on an open terrace and the sounds of the bush were all around us: the long, low rumble of the elephants, the rush of the river a few hundred feet away, the chatter of monkeys, the muted clatter of silverware and whispered conversations around us. And the air. There is something very special about the African air. Close

From journal Game Viewing at Chobe

Rider houses, and how to find them

by amber

Obihiro, Japan, Australia

February 15, 2001

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Rarely in the cities, Rider houses are scattered along tourist routes, scenic drives, isolated villages, tourist towns, wherever motorcyclists are likely to be going. Often they are sheds tacked on to the back of a tourist restaurant, an old garage ...Read more

From journal 500 yen a night, grunge Japan

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