Epic

2022 - 8 - 15

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Epic deal alert: Visit the Canary Islands from $486 round-trip (The Points Guy)

Fall travel to Spain's Canary Islands is currently available for a discounted price. Iberia, Air Europa and American Airlines all have sale fares available ...

If you live in the tri-state area, you can fly out of Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) to Tenerife in November on American for $518 round-trip. Plus, earn an additional Free Night Award after you spend $60K in purchases on your Card in a calendar year. Plus, earn an additional Free Night Award after you spend $60K in purchases on your Card in a calendar year. Here’s a great price on a flight from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) to Tenerife for $617 round-trip. In most cases, for about the same price you can book these itineraries as open jaws, which let you fly into one airport and fly home from another. Responses have not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by the bank advertiser. Our thanks to the folks at Scott’s Cheap Flights for first spotting this deal. The latter offers access to deals on premium economy, business- and first-class tickets. Receive 1 Free Night Award every year after your Card account anniversary. Fall travel to Spain’s Canary Islands is currently available for a discounted price. Departures are from many of the usual big-city suspects, such as Chicago, New York and Miami. What sets this deal apart is that it also lets Midwestern cities such as Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit and Indianapolis in on the fun. For an explanation of our Advertising Policy, visit this page.

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Epic Ride | The Opinion-Tribune (The Opinion Tribune)

A grueling, 748-mile trek from Sweden to Norway, passing through the Arctic Circle, and back, in just 90 hours. For Joe Edwards, it's what he did on his summer ...

“There’s always a certain point in a ride where you feel like maybe you made it past the hard part or the turnaround point and everything is just going back,” he said. “It was a challenge that it was in Swedish, but the good thing is, for the most part, they used the same alphabet as us so you could look at a sign and compare it to the sheet. It was a fantastic ending to a great ride.” “It’s not really a map,” he said. The longest stop was an “overnight” of just barely two hours at a small hotel. “When nighttime comes, your brain wants to shut down and go to sleep but since we had daylight all the time your brain didn’t know what to do,” he said. It’s just for the miles.” They just took off and we never saw them again the rest of the ride.” “It was the hardest because there was more climbing involved,” he said of the Washington state trip. “It was just fantastic,” Edwards quipped about the frigid, pelting rain. Edwards said, he and his American riders “stuck together.” “It’s heavy and bulky and not fun to carry around,” Edwards said.

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His epic landscapes require hours of patience—and ingenuity under ... (National Geographic)

This month's National Geographic cover is a time-lapse image by Stephen Wilkes that captures America's beauty in one of the most hard-to-reach places.

To plan for photographing the site during a full moon—an important event in Native culture—Wilkes began tracking moon phases. Before much damage could be done to the habitat and monument, President Joe Biden restored protections in 2021, after the Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Pueblo of Zuni, Ute Indian Tribe, and Ute Mountain Ute Tribe all pushed for action. Wilkes immediately knew the unique physical feature, shaped into a sort of bridge, would be conducive to the day-to-night treatment. “Science is becoming a challenging area—people don’t believe the data,” he says. The cover story highlights the environment of Bears Ears in Utah, J Bar L Ranch in Montana, Shi Shi Beach in Washington State, and New Orleans’ City Park in breathtaking scope. For the cover photo of the September issue, he hiked through shin-deep mud to reach a remote beach in Washington State while being stalked by a cougar.

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Image courtesy of "The Opinion Tribune"

Epic Ride | The Opinion-Tribune (The Opinion Tribune)

A grueling, 748-mile trek from Sweden to Norway, passing through the Arctic Circle, and back, in just 90 hours. For Joe Edwards, it's what he did on his summer ...

“There’s always a certain point in a ride where you feel like maybe you made it past the hard part or the turnaround point and everything is just going back,” he said. “It was a challenge that it was in Swedish, but the good thing is, for the most part, they used the same alphabet as us so you could look at a sign and compare it to the sheet. It was a fantastic ending to a great ride.” “It’s not really a map,” he said. The longest stop was an “overnight” of just barely two hours at a small hotel. “We checked in at 6:30 p.m., got something to eat, laid down and we we’re back on the road at 8:30 p.m. “When nighttime comes, your brain wants to shut down and go to sleep but since we had daylight all the time your brain didn’t know what to do,” he said. “It was the hardest because there was more climbing involved,” he said of the Washington state trip. It’s just for the miles.” “It was just fantastic,” Edwards quipped about the frigid, pelting rain. They just took off and we never saw them again the rest of the ride.” “It’s heavy and bulky and not fun to carry around,” Edwards said.

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