Dear Reader,

Happy Holidays! I hope you’ve been enjoying time with family and friends this fall while you were waiting for this issue of Travel Post Monthly to go live.

Here we are, on the cusp of December, and November’s issue is just going up. We had a record number of great submissions this month, and found it hard to keep up.

Here is a selection of our favorites. I hope you’ll find, as I do, that the inspiring stories and brilliant photos inside are worth the wait.

Enjoy!

Bonnie Caton
Editor, Travel Post Monthly

P.S. If you're itching to tell your travel tale, submit it to Travel Post Monthly! You can read our Writer's Guidelines, here.

• Maasai Tribesmen Pulling For Obama
  Americans in Kenya find they're faced with the same question again and again...


• Puget Sound Winemakers: Far from Napa
  A sip of Siegerrebe, a nip of Müller-Thurgau, a tot of Madeleine Angevine. We’re not in Napa anymore. We’re in Puget Sound... wine country.


• “The Great Carrier Reef”: The World’s Newest Must-Do Scuba Experience
  And the world's largest artificial reef was born...


• Floating Above the Earth: Ballooning in the Aussie Outback
  Caught between the cusp of a new day and the last flickers of night, strangers float suspended 1,000 feet above the center of Australia.


• Romantic, Practical Ettlingen -- Where Germany and France Overlap
  If you want to explore the Black Forest in Germany, but a wine tour through the French Alsace Lorraine wine region sounds just as tempting, stay in Ettlingen, and you can enjoy both.


• The Pueblos of New Mexico: A Journey One Thousand Years Back in Time
  Just 90 minutes from Santa Fe or Albuquerque, you can dive into a world apart... and explore some of the oldest tribal communities in the United States.