Tag: travel writing contest
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April 17, 2006 11:29 PM EDT --
Backpacking in Monterey County ~ A Trail of Several Tales
Memories that span three decades are tied to a hiking trail in the Los Padres National Forest . My boyfriend, . . .
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March 27, 2006 03:20 PM EST --
By AstroGirl
It could be our last trip up this stretch of Highway 1. We both knew it, RF and me. Could be the last time to travel up this road through Eden, to a place called home.
That . . .
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March 20, 2006 08:37 PM EST --
Never in a million years did I ever dream I would drown in Peru, but here I was wondering if I would ever surface from the depths of the Urabamba River. As I sank in the swirling waters, I held my . . .
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March 20, 2006 09:24 PM EST --
"There's one over there!" whispered John, our guide, as he held the spotlight on reflective eyes. Our dugout canoe eased closer to shore as the caiman lay transfixed in the blinding . . .
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April 14, 2006 12:02 PM EDT --
Day 1, 8:30 AM
The early morning sun bounced off the billowing clouds below and all around, making them look like piles of white cotton balls, all fluffy and pure, as we climbed through them to cruise . . .
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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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April 04, 2006 10:20 PM EDT --
Arriving in two cars, tired and rumpled, our group of nine stood at the base of the 11th century stone tower that once housed Dante while he authored The Divine Comedy in exile from his beloved Florence. . . .
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April 15, 2006 08:26 PM EDT --
I tried to not look down to my right but keep my eyes looking straight ahead. One false move I was sure could lead to certain death. I prayed that the mare I was riding was very sure footed . . .
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December 10, 2006 07:14 AM EST --
It's been a few weeks since we returned from the Mediterranean cruise, the winning prize for the 2006 Gather Travel Writing contest. The wonderful folks at Gather scrimped . . .
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March 20, 2006 09:06 PM EST --
I lay there in the dark silence of my bungalow that first night in the jungle, listening. What was that I heard scurrying up the wall? could it be a lizard? I grabbed my tiny flashlight . . .
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April 14, 2006 09:04 PM EDT --
Baja is the land of less. Once you're south of Ensenada, there is less of nearly everything. There are fewer people. There is less commerce. Communities are smaller. There are virtually no paved roads . . .
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April 17, 2006 12:36 AM EDT --
Originally entered in the Travel Writing Contest, I am now posting to new groups.
Being handed a hot cloth after a long night's flight was a nice gesture, but mine was so hot that I was surprised . . .
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April 04, 2006 05:31 PM EDT --
"You must see the Bund at dawn," a British photographer in my hostel told me several times over the course of my week in Shanghai. I was no stranger to the Bund, that beautiful facade . . .
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April 17, 2006 03:28 AM EDT --
Minutes before I left for my sister's wake, the mailman delivered a copy of my first published story, carried in The Long Islander News . The article I'd written profiled Cajun . . .
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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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March 28, 2006 11:03 AM EST --
There Are no Toilets in St. Peter's
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Joseph P. Ritz
Some 20 million tourists are expected to descend on Rome during the next year. I'd like to inform them there are no toilets in St. Peter's. . . .
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April 10, 2006 08:36 PM EDT --
This world is very full of wonderful places. It is abundant with clear blue water, sandy beaches, mountains and countries galore. . . .
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April 17, 2006 07:13 PM EDT --
I waited on the Vienna-Bratislava train as it crossed the border. I sat alone in a seating compartment meant for six, the train itself was quiet. I started this eastward journey in Geneva, Switzerland, . . .
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May 08, 2006 04:19 PM EDT --
We are delighted to announce P.A. Moed the winner of our 2006 Travel Writing Contest for her wonderful tale Unlocking the Mysteries of Sicily. The Gather editorial team read over 200 stories about trips, . . .
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March 28, 2006 08:11 PM EST --
There is nothing so mysterious, so tantalizing as entering an out of the way alley in downtown Riyadh and discovering that within lies a group of souks filled with an eclectic mixture of goods, . . .
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