Tag: adventure
group name: travelwriting
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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 20, 2006 09:30 PM EST --
It was the golden eighties, the greed is good years. My then husband was a civilian civil engineer with the Corps of Engineers, toiling on the boondoggle of a waterways project in north Mississippi. He . . .
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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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April 05, 2006 10:00 PM EDT --
from a June 2003 trip
As a general rule I do not change money at airports, unless there is an ATM machine and I can pull out enough local currency to get me where I need to go. I usually do it later, . . .
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April 17, 2006 04:28 PM EDT --
It's not even 10 am and the thermometer built into my Casio watch has hit a new high; 110.8 degrees. That's 43.7 in the Celsius world and sitting on an elephant tripod in full sunlight . . .
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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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April 16, 2006 01:56 AM EDT --
No Map
Beira 1148 km. The sign blew past us in the warm, humid air. No map, no GPS, no tour guide. Just me, my school buddy Eric, and Jose Novela, a young Mozambican pastor who had never been to Beira . . .
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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 19, 2006 03:52 PM EST --
"David, me lad, I don't know who this Connor is you've been calling for, I'm afraid you must have the wrong number."
Though spoken in a lyrical brogue, this sentence hit me hard. . . .
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March 31, 2006 03:34 PM EST --
In the Baltics I found a land of midnight sunsets with petrified sap turned to amber jewels, gilded castles, medieval forts in limestone and enchanted waterways and treasures each more fascinating than . . .
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April 07, 2006 09:00 PM EDT --
When my boyfriend and I announced at Christmas that we would get married in March after two years of cohabitation (known then, 1975, as "living in sin") our families were relieved, to say the . . .
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April 18, 2006 06:18 PM EDT --
The most beautiful lightening storm I have ever seen jolted through the sky on my last night in Mildura. I was mesmerized. Electric bolts flashing through the sky over endless . . .
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April 13, 2006 02:34 PM EDT --
On August 20, 2002 my husband Garland, myself, my youngest sister Pam and her husband Don, left our home in Sequim, Washington for a trip around the perimeterof the contiguous United States. We dubbed . . .
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April 17, 2006 04:22 PM EDT --
I have always been afraid to fly. It seems unnatural to me. But, a day after I married Adam on the banks of the Hudson River, I found myself up in the air for more than half a day on my way . . .
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April 17, 2006 07:15 AM EDT --
Many think it is just a myth. Others think it is true but its cause isn't known. Adventurers pride themselves on having seen it. It's a green flash, green from the Sun. The truth is the . . .
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April 14, 2006 10:15 AM EDT --
Kurt pulls his motorcycle to the side of the gravel road and motions me to ride up beside him. His gesture is that of a scout in an old western, and he looks the part, with his long red beard . . .
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March 08, 2006 10:37 AM EST --
THE FOLLOWING CONTEST IS INTENDED FOR RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ONLY (EXCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, PUERTO RICO AND OTHER US TERRITORIES) AND SHALL ONLY BE CONSTRUED . . .
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April 01, 2006 10:18 PM EST --
I tried to wait for some sun today but gave up and ventured out anyway.
First I cleaned all my lenses and asked Pip if he wanted to go with - he was too busy sleeping upside down in the loveseat to bother . . .
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April 20, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
Thank you all for your fantastic submissions to our 2006 travel writing contest. We had a flood of entries during the last few days of the submission period and we are now hard at work reading all of your . . .
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May 01, 2006 07:02 PM EDT --
Congratulations to everyone who entered our 2006 Travel Writing Contest. We had a difficult time choosing the finalists, a testament to the caliber of the submissions we reviewed.
Just to refresh your . . .
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