Travelscope

Awarding-winning travel journalist Joseph Rosendo explores Mexico’s Costa Alegre – “the happy coast” – and Manzanillo, the resort village made famous by the movie “10”. Travelscope highlights the state and city of Colima with its rain forests and active volcanoes, joins the on-going fiesta in Comala and discovers some of the coast’s elegant resorts.

A river runs into it – Flathead Lake, that is, the largest natural fresh water lake West of the Mississippi. It’s the beauty of the lake and the area’s rivers and streams, not to mention, Glacier National Park that leads Joseph into the Flathead Valley to partake of the area’s activities and scenic attractions.

Joseph falls into winter in New Brunswick, Canada. In New Brunswick – Canada’s only official bi-lingual province – the English and French Acadian thrive in perfect harmony. This episode features a bi-cultural, bi-seasonal view of this beautiful Atlantic province.

The ancient Spanish empire stretched from the Americas to Asia. Joseph visits Loreto, Baja California, Mexico – the first Spanish capital of the Californias and The Philippines – where the Spanish influence is visible in the Filipinos’ language, spirit and food.

There’s more to California’s wine country than Napa and Sonoma. Travelscope moves south and “Sideways” to Santa Barbara’s Santa Ynez Wine country – the location of the Academy Award nominated movie “Sideways” – for a full menu of romantic activities that include more than wine tasting.

Joseph travels to Canada’s Eastern-most province in winter and summer in search of cultural, scenic and wildlife adventures.

Joseph journeys to Churchill, Canada to experience the summer spectacle of thousands of Beluga Whales frolicking in the Churchill River and in winter, the annual Polar Bear migration to the shores of Hudson Bay.

Travelscope experiences multi-cultural, multi-religious Malaysia when Joseph takes part in the “Colors of Malaysia Festival.” The national celebration spotlights the different states and people of Malaysia through music, song, dance and costumes.

Joseph continues his “Colors of Malaysia” adventure through multi-cultural, multi-religious Malaysia when we travel to the islands of Penang and Langkawi.

Travelscope discovers the desert’s subtle attractions when Joseph travels from California Wildflowers to Yuma, Arizona’s Birding and Nature Festival.

Located on the Moose River on the southern tip of James Bay the island of Moose Factory is 1,000 miles north of Toronto and a world apart. In this relative isolation the Moose Cree and the MoCreeBec struggle to keep their culture alive. Travelscope heads to Ontario’s Far North for an adventure with Canada’s First Nations people.

Joseph heads to Southeast Montana to Custer Country for an historic encounter with a legend and a close encounter with the locals during the annual reenactments of Custer’s Last Stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

Elves and dragons, maids and knights – hiking and biking, oysters and crepes – these are some of the surprises and pleasures Joseph discovers in Brittany, France – the Celtic land of myths and legends.