Archives in Category: Travel

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Backroads

Posted on March 12, 2006

John Denver once sang a song about country roads taking him home to West Virginia. I wasn’t born anywhere near West Virginia, but I’ve always had an affinity for that song’s lyrics and the sentiment they express.

Some people call

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Las Vegas: Recap

Posted on March 6, 2006

Note: Wireless Internet is a good thing, when it works. I posted the following blog in Las Vegas, but learned later it never made it out of my computer. This is the last one of my travelog series. AB

We’ve

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Las Vegas: Hoover Dam and Lake Mead

Posted on March 5, 2006

Note: Wireless Internet is a good thing, when it works. I posted the following blog in Las Vegas, but learned later it never made it out of my computer. AB

While we came to visit the glitz that is Las

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Las Vegas: Things Oriental

Posted on March 4, 2006

Note: Wireless Internet is a good thing, when it works. I posted the following blog in Las Vegas, but learned later it never made it out of my computer. AB

Themes are big here in Las Vegas: the Orient, the

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Las Vegas: Enroute

Posted on March 3, 2006

Before homo sapiens became somewhat civilized, he and she must have been more comfortable as part of a herd, rather like other animals still in the wild. Vestiges of this herd behavior still show up where large numbers of people

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Las Vegas

Posted on March 2, 2006

Earl and I are visiting Las Vegas this coming weekend; he for an update, me for the first time. I’m not sure what to expect. Everyone I’ve talked to has a different opinion, but all agree you must see it

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Stonehenge

Posted on February 21, 2006

Stonehenge, that massive pile of carefully laid stones in the downlands of England, has been a source of speculation and admiration for generations. I remember first learning about it in some elementary school social studies class where the teacher hinted

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10,000 Missing

Posted on February 18, 2006

The airline industry announced yesterday that approximately 10,000 pieces of luggage go missing every day. And while this isn’t on the same scale as 10,000 people missing in some natural disaster, it makes me wonder what’s going on in the

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Cruising Tips

Posted on January 20, 2006

Earl and I are back on terra firma after spending ten days on a ship in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, visiting various ports of call and basking in the warm, friendly sun and eighty-degree weather. It’s not hard

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Fishing

Posted on December 11, 2005

I have the feeling I’m in for a bumpy ride the next few months. And it’s all because my beloved, Earl, is eagerly planning our summer ’06 vacation.

Earl has said on more than one occasion that when I plan

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