Tag: travel stories
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January 18, 2006 01:57 AM EST --
For those of you fortunate enough to have missed them, please see my two former articles on this subject.
So, we come to it at last. My votes for the worst food I have ever tasted in my life. . . .
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January 21, 2006 03:08 AM EST --
My Africa travels have resulted in some great photos of big cats...lions, leopards and cheetahs. Of all the African animals, I think my favorites to photograph are the cats. I won't try . . .
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February 16, 2006 02:06 PM EST --
No, not the ones from Minnesota that wear shoulder pads. Nor am I referring nostalgically to my high school alma mater in Bangor, Michigan.
In the Old Norse language, the word vikingar means "raiders." . . .
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February 16, 2006 03:47 PM EST --
This is the second of a three-part story about Viking settlements in the North Atlantic.
To start at the beginning, click this link:
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After a day at sea, we . . .
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February 13, 2008 10:52 AM EST --
The Schuyler Mansion in Shuylerville, NY (just east of Saratoga), is the colonial home of a Revolutionary War general who fought . . .
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August 07, 2005 10:49 PM EDT --
Mind the Gap.
Very seldom does anybody give me instructions that are that useful and polite. It is almost more of a request, really. Please, please take care not to slip into the deadly void between . . .
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November 28, 2007 11:56 AM EST --
During the late 1970s I lived with my wife, Jeanne, and three kids in Marsa-el-Brega, Libya, about halfway between Tripoli and Benghasi. It was a large fenced enclave, about five miles across, . . .
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February 16, 2006 02:41 AM EST --
This is the last part of a three-part series about Viking settlements in the North Atlantic.
To start at the beginning, click this link:
/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976730393
After another day . . .
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July 28, 2008 10:01 PM EDT --
I walked from the Swiss Hotel along the Bosphorous Harbor meandering towards the New Mosque. My feet touched a path mixed with cobblestones and smoothened concrete. Pastel colored buildings in varying . . .
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April 11, 2006 01:37 AM EDT --
They say "You can never go home again," but I beg to differ.
On March 27, 2002 I returned to Fûrstenfeldbruck, the town my mother's family had called home since the . . .
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April 25, 2006 04:06 PM EDT --
I wrote this after a visit to Colorado in November of 2004...
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Someone asked me why I like Boulder.
Thursday evening my friend Van took me to Hapa sushi. I tried a roll I'd never . . .
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August 27, 2009 09:24 PM EDT --
We ate breakfast on the terrace in Amalfi, served by skinny Renaldo who buzzed and hummed about, making an occasional nervous foray into conversation about his marriage to a Russian woman from Eastern . . .
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December 23, 2005 01:13 AM EST --
We had been following the leopard for some time, at a discreet distance. . He was a magnificent young male, fully grown.
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September 16, 2009 01:49 PM EDT --
Assisi: parking ticket and all
We came to Assisi seeking St. Francis and Clare. We found them. We found, as well, a greeting from the Assisi police: a parking ticket. Parking in Assisi . . .
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January 17, 2006 01:14 AM EST --
As a meat eater, a traveler, an Irish-American and a Republican, I have had my share of very bad meals before. I have had things put on plates in front of me that made me want to weep. I have . . .
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March 23, 2006 07:44 AM EST --
There exist in this fallen world, innumerable diseases with strange and mysterious symptoms, most of which I hope never to become acquainted with. Skin peels off of the body for no particular reason, . . .
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March 29, 2006 12:05 AM EST --
Between March, 1983 and June, 1984 I lived with my family in Bontang on the east coast of Borneo six miles north of the equator, where I worked at the large LNG (Liquefied . . .
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January 07, 2006 05:11 PM EST --
"I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within." -Lillian Smith
Standing on the . . .
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January 20, 2006 05:56 PM EST --
The frosty nip of winter floated on the Parisian air. It was four days before Christmas, the time of year when Parisians were friendlier, perhaps from having one extra glass of brandy, or perhaps . . .
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February 01, 2006 12:23 AM EST --
Getting away from it all. Forgetting all about work and other obligations. Seeing beautiful scenery. Going to museums. Eating new food. Meeting new people. All measures . . .
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