Inspiring Travel Writing from Arnie Wilson: Page 5 of 5

Articles by Arnie Wilson: Page 5 of 5

  • Vail Resorts | Arnie Wilson | United States | Colorado | Vail
    It’s 50 years since Earl Eaton stumbled across what was to become Vail Mountain while prospecting for uranium in Eagle County, Colorado. The mountain could not really be seen properly from the road, so Eaton dragged his friend Pete Seibert up to...
  • Ski Argentina | Arnie Wilson | Argentina | Mendoza and winelands | Mendoza
    After a hot-and-dusty 12 hour wait in Madrid a chilly blast filled my lungs as I ventured outside the airport at Buenos Aires to journey across the city to the domestic terminal. In the space of a few hours I had switched from the summer heat of the...
  • Skiing the US | Arnie Wilson | United States | Minnesota | Minneapolis
    The trip was part of my self-imposed quest to ski in every US state which has lift-assisted downhill skiing - and there are 40 of them. Having over the years worked my way through such unlikely states as Wisconsin, Illinois, Tennessee, North...
  • Winter Adventures in Jackson Hole | Arnie Wilson | United States | Wyoming | Jackson Hole
    The lost world It’s wild and it’s west. And if ever there were a spot in the USA that made you feel what it might have been like to be a 19th-century trapper, frontiersman, gunslinger, rancher, Shoshone, Crow, Blackfoot or Gros Ventre Indian (there...
  • Skiing in Telluride | Arnie Wilson | United States | Colorado | Telluride
    Thanks to the conquistadors and the native Americans they confronted in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Colorado lexicon is richer than many. There’s a lot more to the skiing place names in this iconic state than Aspen, Vail and Breckenridge. Much...
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    Xara Palace Hotel | Arnie Wilson
    Eating al fresco on the bastions of Malta's ancient capital is the nightly highlight of one's stay at the Xara Palace Hotel, a once crumbling 17th-century palazzo in the shadow of the baroque cathedral of St Paul's, now lovingly rescued and...
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