It takes effort to visit the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Chris Solomon tells us what a summer kayaking trip to the Arctic showed him about our place in the world.

To sit at the front of your tent with a cup of coffee and have a thousand caribou stream past you.

I understand what that place means a little more now.

The January 2010 earthquake in Haiti killed hundreds of thousands of people.

A journalist on her first foreign assignment found that a little girl who survived six days under the rubble helped her fellow Haitians feel like it wasn't all hopeless.

I felt like she was a symbol of resilience more, a different symbol of Haiti of people who can

make it through horror and get out the other side because she was tough.

Catherine Porter tells us how a little girl named Lovely changed her life too.

That and the Arctic Refuge before any heavy machinery is allowed in. It's all just ahead on today's travel with

Rick Steves.

For most of us, the fight over drilling in or preserving the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is just an abstraction.

Adventure traveler Christopher Solomon decided to see it for himself.

He tells us what he experienced a little later in the hour on today's

travel with Rick Steeves. Her first shot as a foreign correspondent took her from Toronto to

Porto Prince to cover what some called the greatest humanitarian need of our time.

Hundreds of thousands of people were buried alive when a major earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010.

As Catherine Porter reported on how the poorest nation in the Western

Hemisphere faced impossible odds, she got to know a two-year-old girl who

survived six days before being rescued. This miracle child would become a symbol of hope and a

focus of Catherine's work in Haiti and of her book, a girl named Lovely.

Catherine Porter, welcome.

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