Tag: tourist
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June 05, 2007 10:26 PM EDT --
This is a rant. Actually, it's two rants, but I'll combine them so not to bore you too badly.
Rant 1: I live in a tourist trap in Northern Arizona called Sedona. We get over 1,000,000 tourists . . . more
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August 01, 2007 06:31 AM EDT --
You can always tell the minute tourist season starts. In a resort town, it's sort of all the time, but there are times of higher than normal out-of-state license plates. A holiday weekend is prime-time, . . . more
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April 11, 2007 01:36 AM EDT --
Okay, I've now covered Auckland and the North Island . That just leaves me with the South Island.
You can't miss the South Island, no matter how hard you try. It's the big appendix-shaped . . . more
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December 03, 2007 09:34 PM EST --
I'm originally from New Orleans, although I have been living in Los Angeles for almost 20 years. Fortunately, a lot of things stay the same in this beautiful and historic city (even Katrina didn't . . . more
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March 23, 2008 08:49 PM EDT --
While sitting on the balcony of my room in beautiful, downtown Zihuatanejo I looked down and decide to take a few photos. The inspiration for this was a series of paintings by, fellow Gatherer, Warren . . . more
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May 15, 2008 05:34 PM EDT --
I've talked before about what it takes to really be an American . Here's another example:
A pessimist looks at a giant rock that's fallen on a house, and hopes nobody . . . more
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October 14, 2007 05:14 PM EDT --
This early October weekend marked the 5th Annual Jerome Historical Society Ghost Walk, a tourist draw for people looking for that quintessential "feeling of fall" activity. Looking for . . . more
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July 31, 2007 08:47 AM EDT --
I'm from New York and I always get angry when I'm walking in the streets of Manhattan and the tourists and looking up with thier cameras and taking photographs. They stop traffic.
Well, . . . more
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October 03, 2007 10:16 AM EDT --
The questions below about Australia are from potential visitors. They were apparently posted on an Australian Tourism Website and the answers are the actual responses by the website officials, who obviously . . . more
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October 23, 2006 03:25 AM EDT --
I am the person all those schlocky tourist traps were made for. No. Seriously. When I travel, I do two things: One is to get off the beaten path and seen the real heart of things. The other is to . . . more
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October 24, 2006 04:49 AM EDT --
In 1066 a chap name o' William decided he rather liked the area and went about laying claim in a very bloody fashion. He put up castles at what seemed like strategic points around England. The first . . . more
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May 24, 2007 05:38 AM EDT --
My wife works in the travel industry. She is organised. She makes lists and timetables and she keeps to them. She anticipates everything that can go wrong and she makes sure she can avoid or fix each one. . . . more
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May 28, 2007 02:11 AM EDT --
"Hon, they really do look like that."
What my wife was talking about was that Tuscan staple image: the serpentine chalk road with cypress tree sentinels, crossing over rolling fields to . . . more
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June 30, 2007 03:07 AM EDT --
As a destination, Bali has a lot to offer The Intrepid Traveller.
For the Adventuresome there’s the famous surfing, or the climb up crepuscular Mt Batur to watch the sunrise. Then there's the . . . more
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July 31, 2007 06:12 AM EDT --
As I sit here, shivering in the depths of a Southern Hemisphere winter, the call comes out from Gather Travel : I read of temperatures in the nineties and of dreams of summer days at the beach, and naturally . . . more
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February 23, 2008 09:41 PM EST --
Last month, my sons and I went with my childhood friend to Jungle Island in Miami. The Jungle Island is only a 15 minute drive from us, and we were all amazed to find ourselves in the middle of a tropical . . . more
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March 06, 2008 08:01 PM EST --
A friend and I have decided to take a road trip this summer. We're both in our early twenties. It will be before I start law school so we just want to get away. We're planning . . . more
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August 16, 2008 09:21 AM EDT --
When we knew we were going to Canada, my husband decided that he really would like to stay on a lake. I agreed and set about finding us the best place we could find, that wasn't hours away from . . . more
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August 24, 2008 06:17 PM EDT --
Pics from the Butterfly Pavillion, around Nairobi, Old Town in Mombasa, Diani Beach, & Indian Ocean, taken between 1998-2000. Who says that a film camera is always better than a digital . . . more
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August 02, 2007 02:07 AM EDT --
A big thing that hotels advertise is "free" local calls. The problem is defining a local call. Heck, I just got an $86.00 bill mostly for phone calls my kids made from the house to me when I'm . . . more
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