Posts from the ‘Travel blogging’ Category
In the past 24 hours Phoenix has thrown at me: A sandstorm Some spritzing mist in a doorway Temptation at the grocery store The last two were certainly much more welcome than the first, but I’ve got to admit that it’s all part of the adventure. I just want to be quick about figuring out the rules. Ever […]
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I feel like a doof. When we moved from Southern California to the Midwest, someone there kindly let us know that winter makes a couple serious attempts to kill you every year. So shouldn’t I have figured out on my own that Arizona would do the same thing during the summer? I think I can […]
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I get to log this under the Travel Blogging category, since I’m writing this from the breakfast room of the Holiday Inn Express in Dalhart, Texas (travel tip: stay away from the sausage; double up on the cinnamon rolls). Greg and I are driving his car from home to his new bachelor digs in Phoenix, after […]
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I’m on an Exploritas vacation in Wyoming with my mom, and it’s letting me live out a little dream of my childhood — getting close to a dinosaur. As luck would have it, the relationship is actually much more personal than I thought it would be — I’m cleaning dirt and deposits out of a […]
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Okay, I’m ready to be done with my last vacation, but it took me this long to pull together my favorite photos out of the 250-some we took and load them onto a Flicker slideshow. So for those of you who would still like to see more of the Russian fabulousness, the link is HERE. […]
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It’s a terrible thing to find that you’ve used up all the superlatives you can think of, just when you need them most. Saint Petersburg was always the biggest attraction of this cruise for me. Judging from the fact that the cruise stops there for two full days, it obviously is for a lot of people. […]
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When we last checked in with our heroine, she was whining that Copenhagen was too modern to suit her tastes. What a fine bit of irony, then, that the next stop in the cruise was Tallinn, Estonia. Not to say that a person can’t find Starbucks, McDonalds and such in the newer part of Tallinn. […]
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Oh dear, I was afraid of that. We didn’t care much for Copenhagen. Well, there’s nothing to say you have to make a love connection with everyplace you stop. And I don’t think it’s any reflection on Copenhagen. It’s breathtaking, bustling, full of life. But the reason it wasn’t a hit with me is that it’s […]
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Since we had walked over some of the basic Edinburgh sites back HERE in ’05, I was looking for something a bit “off the brochure,” and also wanting to indulge a current interest in the abbeys and monasteries in the U.K. that were shut down in the 1500′s. A Scottish commenter on a cruise chat […]
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With most of the ports on this cruise — Dublin, Edinburgh, Copenhagen, St. Petersburg — the question wasn’t “What do you do?” but “What don’t you do?” Knowing what to leave off the itinerary can keep you from running around trying to do it all. But that didn’t seem like it was the problem with […]
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