As travel writers, my wife, Sandra Wells, and I have been to exotic locations around the world, but back home in Los Angeles we put on our heavy coats when the temperature drops to 50 degrees and we aren’t into winter sports as participants. So tramping around Iceland or northern Canada in the dead of winter did not quite seem like the ideal fit for our travel plans, even to see the spectacular Aurora Borealis—the Northern Lights, Nature’s ... (click for more)