Image at right: At Mission Wolf in Southern Colorado, the breathtaking Sangre de Cristo mountain range are your backdrop to adventure

By Lynn Braz

You may have seen one while vacationing. Designed for tourists, this is the way to get around without leaving a foot print.

First came Yuppies. Then DINKs. And now comes the LOHAS consumer label. What's a LOHAS consumer?

Michel is about to go on one of his biggest culinary adventures and we get to go along for the ride. In this episode, we’ll follow him to India as he prepares to open a restaurant at the Taj Land's End Hotel. This is one journey that’s sure to open a door to the culinary landscape of India, as we learn about homemade spice mixes and their health benefits, find out about chickpea flour vs. white processed flours and are shown to make some traditional Indian dishes.

If you're looking for a way to combine your love of cycling with your concern for the planet, you may wish to check out the Sustainable Energy in Motion Bicycle Tours organized by Portland for Peace. This small progressive organization arranges one- and two-week group bicycle tours that offer not only a physically invigorating challenge but also the opportunity to learn hands-on about such topics as permaculture, sustainable and indigenous building practices, environmental ethics, ecology, organic farming, appropriate technologies, and sustainable energy. The slogan, "Less Pollution, More Solutions!" succinctly sums up the group's goals, but doesn't begin to hint at the natural beauty of Oregon's coast and Willamette Valley that greets the roughly 20 to 30 participants as they ride.

"Peakbagging" is the obsessive quest to "bag," or summit, high mountains. In Colorado, the highest mountains are the so-called "fourteeners," 54 peaks topping out higher than 14,000 feet. Each summer, people flock to Colorado's fourteeners, and as a newspaper in Colorado Springs described it, it's "like collecting baseball cards: Once you've attained one, you want to gain the whole set."