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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…
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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 under way 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…
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really a lion and less of cow
Today, I booked my air tickets to Argentina and Chile and all I can do since I pressed the button to buy is smile and smile. I am an admitted addict and will never ever be finished with my exploration of our blue planet. I have been trying to be brave in my little, lovely…
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A happy dog post
Lots of plans being laid for exciting new adventures south, west and east – not so much north until this winter is done. In the meantime… here’s the happiest dog I have seen in some time – may you all be jumping for joy like this pup out there in the world, friends and will…
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New Year’s Wishes
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain On this last day of a very long 2011,…
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just some lions
Have been a terrible blogger but just know…. this can only mean greatness is coming (that’s what THEY say, whoever THEY are). In the meantime, here’s a lion video to fill this space. Happy almost 2012 friends! Hope you’re all headed or coming back from somewhere great. (thanks to the BBC)
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Just for fun…
Just because I love this kind of wacky travel, no guidebook needed – just lots of maps, luck and pluck – via @theAdventurists http://www.mongolrally.com “10,000 miles in a tiny car from Europe to Mongolia. Travelling is for sissies, come and get stuck in a desert on the Mongol Rally 2012.”
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Europe: Remembrance Day, Bruges
A number of years ago, a friend and I decided to take this week long dash through some European countries we had not visited in a while and to see some friends – a week long journey of planes, trains, buses, trams, boats to the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands. Why we chose a week when…
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Staying put, what happens when you cannot go…
I have started and deleted this post so many many times. My update was going to be all about what happens when you don’t get to go on a journey you’ve planned and dreamed about for months….but how do write about that without sounding like a spoiled baby? To be able to travel for pleasure,…
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