Travel
The plant-based, lifestyle can be happily and healthfully lived anywhere. Here, you’ll find living proof of compassionate and conscious eating brought to you from travels all over the world.
Back from Africa: Meeting Our Newest Elephant Orphan, Quanza (video!)
We've just returned from our fifth journey to Africa. Wildlife advocacy and adventure travel keep my husband Greg and I coming back. Once you get Africa in your blood, you can't help but return each opportunity you get. Maybe it's because it's where we...
Seven Things I Love About Elephants & African Elephant Rescue Project (videos!)
Elephant Rescue Project Video: Part One (Part Two Below) First - Seven Things I Love About Elephants They possess an enviable grace and purposefulness in their movement - in spite of their size. They demonstrate compassion for the less fortunate, the lost, and the...
Can You Eat Whole Foods Vegan While Traveling in Indonesia? Trip Report (video!)
We've just returned from three weeks of adventure on a Biodiversity Expedition in Indonesia. Here in Greg's latest video release, a peek at our adventure. Watch as we dive alongside manta rays, sea turtles, and yes, even sea snakes!. Along the way we enjoyed lots of...
Cosmetic Procedures: Does Getting Tossed by a Warthog Count?
“Have you had work done?” As I approach “when I’m 64”, I find this question is being asked of me more and more at my presentations. My response?
Can You Eat Plant-Based While on Safari in Africa? (pictures!) PLUS feeding baby elephant and giraffe from a bottle (video!)
Want to see the baby elephant video first? Scroll down the page! Can You Eat Plant-Based While on Safari in Africa? A resounding yes. Deliciously. confidently. While on safari in Kenya and Tanzania these past few weeks, I posted pictures and articles about the...
The Plant-Based Journey travels to Africa, orphan elephants, and being tossed like a salad by a warthog
Our driver scurried us through teeming traffic in a late-night arrival at the Nairobi airport to our lodging for the first days of our stay near Nairobi National Park. As we drove past giant billboards that had been erected days earlier to welcome President Barack...
Eat, Play, Love: Seven Tips for Traveling Plant-Based Anywhere in the World
If we've been on this journey together for any time at all, you know this about me: I travel. A lot. I figure someone's got to demonstrate how you can eat and live plant-based - in glorious fashion - and stay active anywhere in the world. So I volunteered for the...
Three videos and three lessons from third world travel: back from Indonesia travel adventure
We just returned from three weeks of travel adventure in Indonesia, where we journeyed for scuba diving, rainforest hiking, and doing what we always do on our travels - trek to wildlife sanctuaries and preserves to give support, bear witness, and bring back news...
Five Healthy Tips for Plant-Based Baby Boomers
I don't care what any one says, when you become a 'lady or gentleman of a certain age', something shifts. Muscle maintenance can be harder, weight gain easier, and the inclination to simply not move as much can sneak up on you. When I jumped into my sixth decade, in...
Safari Africa. Elephant orphanage. Life changing.
Safari Africa touches something deep inside you. Maybe it's in our DNA. Our limbic memory, reaching back to our ancient ancestors. Picture this At 6,500 feet above sea level, we watch as a large family of elephants - from giant towering mothers to infants a few...
Two days at True North: Dr. Alan Goldhamer, Doug Lisle, and Chef Aj’s Red Lentil Chili
If the names Lisle and Goldhamer sound almost as familiar to you as Rogers and Hammerstein, it may be because they are co-authors of the brilliant and popular The Pleasure Trap. This visionary book could be considered the foundation of the practices and principles...
Veg Summerfest rocks it! PLUS Dr. Michael Greger in the house with ‘Combating Disease’ (pics and video!)
I've just returned from Vegetarian Summerfest - and there is SO much to tell you! For starters, I was thrilled and honored to be invited to present at this by-invitation-only annual event in Johnstown, PA. I've heard about Veg Summerfest for years and always had my...
The Plant-based Dietitian Julieanna Hever TV show premieres January 28
I am so excited for my friend and fellow plant-based passionista Julieanna Hever for the premiere of her brand new TV show, "What Would Julieanna Do?" on Veria network. The first of 39 shows airs Monday, January 28, 2013. Actually, I'm excited for all of us! The more...
Fitness Nutrition Specialist, Fit Quickies book update, and keeping the 3 Pillars in place
Our 'busy' - yours and mine - may not always look the same, but no matter what outfit it's wearing, busy has its set of challenges. 'Busy' demands that we set priorities and make plans to make sure they are honored. For me, to be successful at completing whatever...
Plant-based fitness adventuress river ambling & cliff crawling on the Appalachian Trail (video)
Our morning river walk in Harper's Ferry, W. VA., where the Potomac meets the Shenandoah... Early September found us on plant-based fitness adventure in Virginia, Maryland, and even scrambling all over the nation's capitol for a 7 hour junket on a hot, sticky Sunday....
How to get motivated by the greats: An evening with Dr. Neal Barnard
"I couldn't kill my first patient!" This is one of the most memorable lines spoken the fund raiser for PCRM's Research Without Cruelty campaign that took place last Sunday at Millennium Restaurant in the heart of San Francisco. Spoken by none other than the brilliant...
Great veg restaurant in a city near you? Tell me about it!
Above: Ann Wheat, owner of San Francisco’s Millennium Restaurant, Lani Muelrath, & Stephanie Roston, R.D., Millennium Sous Chef One of the pleasures of my column at Vegan Mainstream is keeping my finger on the pulse of the healthy veg community - and that...
Larry’s pancakes: A plant-based Easter breakfast on San Francisco Bay
I hope the Easter bunny was good to you this year, as she sure was to us. We had the fine good fortune of having Larry Wheat's famous 'Larry's pancakes' and the pictures pretty much tell the story. Not only that, but this was on the heels of our first,...
Palau scuba adventure and Pacific plant-based cooking (video!)
Back on the grid after floating around in the bubbles in the Rock Islands of Micronesia. Extraordinary adventure, and even lucky enough to have a plant-based Manchurian cook on board. All's well! Now, to tear myself away from the video and get back to tasks at...
How to stay body-shaped & plant-based anywhere in the world: Zip lines, beaches, & tropical treks in Panama (video!)
Look. If I can do it in a 3rd world country, you can do it anywhere. Europe and the U.S. are easy. Not to belittle your efforts. But when you travel to far-flung off-the-beaten-path places and still make your plant-based diet work AND squeeze in your body-shapers...
How to have a happy Thanksgiving: Farm Sanctuary Festival for the Turkeys 2011 (video!)
It's no surprise to you, is it, that turkey is not an annual event on my plate at Thanksgiving, is it. What else would you expect from the plant-based fitness grrrl? There IS an annual event involving big birds at our house, though - and that is the Thanksgiving...
Last time I was in this airport…aka outdoor girl returns from tropical scuba adventure (video!)
True story. Talk about flashbacks! I even told you about it at the time here: "When once-snug shorts slip off without being unbuttoned; aka time for a new tropical wardrobe". Those very shorts - as perfect as they are for travel and as well as they have served me...
My 10 minute date with George Clooney on Lake Como; Well, almost. (Video!)
OK, so I'm filing this one under pure travel and entertainment ;-). Here's the video transcript: My 10 minute date with George Clooney on Lake Como; Well, almost. Don't you hate it when people make a big kerfuffle about celebrities? Me, too! So, why do I find...
How to win a Fit Quickie Combo audio track (Video! Time sensitive!)
How to win a Fit Quickie Combo audio track Hey Sweetstuff! We are headed out on our morning hike here and I’ve got a really fun plan cooked up for you and a way for you to win something. So I’ll tell you about that in a minute. But first, can you tell where we are?...
Savory summer veggies La Spinosa (recipe!)
Do you find yourself using 'travel' as an excuse to check out of eating healthy food? Does getting out of town mean usually getting out of sync with your health and body-shaping dreams? If so, then I've got news for you. It is perfectly possible to create simple and...
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