Tag: travel
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 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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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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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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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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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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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 18, 2006 12:04 AM EDT --
San Francisco is one of the world's most visited cities. It is filled with culture, scenic beauty, an almost European feel in its allure and landscape, and offers visitors and locals alike a . . .
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April 04, 2006 01:11 PM EDT --
The remote trail I followed up the steep shoulder of the volcano was created by the most dangerous animal in the jungle - man. But it wasn't man that worried me that day. It was . . .
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March 29, 2006 01:03 AM EST --
during the times i lived in japan, i stayed with host families. this was smart, as i worked for an international exchange company, and we helped japanese students prepare to go overseas, as well as helped . . .
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October 18, 2006 02:29 AM EDT --
I had never been on a commercial airplane before. But here I was boarding an American Airline flight headed for Chicago. I had been accepted as a stewardess trainee. I was 22 years old . . .
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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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March 21, 2006 05:25 PM EST --
It's a cold grey day in late November in New York City. I'm leaving for France today. France; for the horses, for the food, for the wine and for the first time I'm leaving . . .
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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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January 17, 2007 01:05 PM EST --
This is the final chapter of my recent 32 day trip of Africa (Cape Town to Cairo) and post trip to Jordan.
It was good to get to sleep late before we had to go.
Hamdy got us all checked in-no . . .
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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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July 29, 2006 04:49 PM EDT --
Forty-Eight years ago today,
Dr. Reeves sent me on my way
To St. Vincents Infirmary in Little Rock,
Where they put me in a hospital frock.
We'd had our Christmas the night before,
Anticipating . . .
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April 17, 2006 06:43 PM EDT --
I stand at the rail, salt-mist of the evening's tide filling my senses.
Above me, the billowing sails of the catamaran ruffle as the sky cascades from shimmering azure to a kaleidoscope of lavender, . . .
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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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September 16, 2006 03:58 PM EDT --
Our entrance to Moscow was certainly grand.
Wide boulevards stretched over the land.
Not enough film for all the gold domes,
Wedding cake buildings, diplomat's homes,
Towers, and spires and bright . . .
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