Hello fellow HE Travelers, I’m sitting on the balcony of the General Palmer Hotel, a historic hotel in downtown Durango, Colorado. I love this town, and I love this hotel! My view looks like something from a movie set. Up the street is the Strater Hotel, which has been visited by many US Presidents. We’ve […]
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Zachary’s Notes – August 2022 – Adventures in Idaho
Greeting fellow HE Travelers, Here’s the latest edition of my travel notes. We just got back from delivering our new Idaho Hiking Getaway tour. It was way more fun than I had expected, and the guys totally loved it! It was hot as hell though; the cool mountain breezes were replaced by a crushing heatwave. […]
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Zachary’s Notes – Resurrecting the Dock in Cedar Key, Florida – June 2022
Greetings fellow HE Travelers, This last month has been a whirlwind of adventure. Trisha was in Botswana hosting one of our groups, so I was stuck home by myself for 20 days. To prevent loneliness, I invited my construction buddy Ethan Higbee to Cedar Key, to help me work on fixing our dock while she […]
Magical Gay Safari Experience
There’s something magical and mystical about a gay safari in Southern Africa. It offers one of those rare experiences where we humans are guests of nature, on their scale. The animals run free, following instincts honed by their species over the millennia. We humble visitors are dwarfed by the grandeur of the surroundings while in our protective vehicle or safari lodge. We can learn a lot about living in harmony with nature by observing the people whose ancestors have long co-existed with the animals.
A Half-Century of Gay Travel
22 marks 50 years since HE Travel’s founder Hanns Ebensten put a small ad in New York’s After Dark arts magazine. Hanns’ future tour director Cal Culver (aka gay porn star Casey Donovan) appeared on their cover. Hanns invited “discerning gentlemen” to join him for a week in the Grand Canyon the following year, thus initiating a half-century of gay travel.