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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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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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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 Europe is…
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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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