Jennifer Bain

3 weeks ago | nationalparkstraveler.org | Jennifer Bain

To be honest, I have no clue what I’m looking at beyond the fact that it’s a key object in the World War II-era race to develop the world’s first atomic weapons before Nazi Germany. There is a giant wall full of holes that reminds me of a Lite-Brite toy, mannequin men with rods and a legend that talks about donut, iodine and uranium fuel slugs. “Caution,” a yellow warning sign reads.

4 weeks ago | openjaw.com | Jennifer Bain

In a two-day sales mission to Ontario marked by woodburning, mixology, cooking and breathwork bonding sessions, Las Vegas repledged its love for Canadian travellers.

1 month ago | openjaw.com | Jennifer Bain

“Invisible no more,” is the new rallying cry of women over 50 who are becoming the fastest-growing travel demographic in North America. It’s also the title of a new survey called “Invisible No More: The Ageless Adventuress.” Published by JourneyWoman, in partnership with Collette Travel, Intrepid Travel and Aurora Expeditions, the survey quizzed 1,630 mostly women about their travel preferences, spending, preferred destinations, purchasing habits and more.

1 month ago | nationalparkstraveler.org | Jennifer Bain

On a recent trip to Tennessee, I lost count of how many people told me the same strange and unusual thing about Great Smoky Mountains National Park. If you stacked up all of the park’s salamanders against its roughly 1,900 black bears, the salamanders would weigh more. Or was it salamanders versus all of the mammals and birds, or even all the wildlife?

1 month ago | nationalparkstraveler.org | Jennifer Bain

The first time that I went seabeaning, I triumphantly scooped up what looked like a shrivelled brain from a national seashore that was strewn with plastic trash. I turned the fist-sized oddity over in my hands, admiring how the deep grooves on its bumpy brown surface created brain-like patterns. That brain bean — also known as brainfruit, brain seed, monkey’s brain or Donovan’s brain — was neither brain nor bean but a well-traveled and wizened fruit.