Month: May 2012
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Patagonia March 2012
“I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no…
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“Travel does what good …
“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and…
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Mexico: a kayaking story for cinco de Mayo…
.. or as my family likes to call it… the near-death kayak. About ten years ago, my family decided we wanted to start traveling for Christmas – get some sun in before the long winter haul of the the northeast USA. We’re not the all inclusive, cruise people so we decided to go to an…
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Travel & Tears… a short list
“This is your captain speaking.” The most dreaded words in air travel without a doubt. Nothing like being 30,000 feet in the air, meal service underway, and learning the plane is turning around, back to the land you just left, no local currency in my pocket, no mobile phone, and yes, the yearning, deep need…
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