Tag: travel
group name: adore
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April 17, 2006 11:29 PM EDT --
Backpacking in Monterey County ~ A trail of many tales
By Jan Hersh
Memories that span three decades are tied to a hiking trail in the Los Padres National Forest. I was in my . . . more
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June 14, 2006 12:23 PM EDT --
A fifteen-minute trudge through cold rain finally brought me to a van going from the Kyrgyz city of Osh, where I had spent the last several days enjoying some of the best outdoor cafes in central Asia, . . . more
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January 23, 2008 10:43 PM EST --
sunshine in september
burnished roofs
starlings scatter
at sound of hooves
he arrives home
the old house stands
time spent far
in foreign lands
he halts his horse
suddenly afraid
of the past . . . more
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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 . . . more
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August 14, 2006 02:14 PM EDT --
I already was a single mom to McKaylah, I was getting no help from her "father" Tim.. I do not like calling him her Dad, Father or any other name that might make someone think that he actually . . . more
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September 25, 2006 08:23 AM EDT --
You left two weeks ago on your road trip, the trip you have been planning for the past twenty-seven years. Visit California. Visit Alaska, your birth place.
And here I am. Alone for . . . more
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October 09, 2006 11:16 AM EDT --
I've always been close to my grandma Ardelle. Whenever my parents couldn't get me to do something, like take medecine or give up my bottle, all they had to do was bring me to grandma's . . . more
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July 01, 2006 02:30 PM EDT --
I can´t say I´m an expert at anything really, but especially not in the area I´m about to write. I´ve seen most of the country, except for parts of the West Coast, but in retrospect, . . . more
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September 02, 2006 12:01 PM EDT --
I wanted to start a group for others like me who has a spouse in Iraq. My husband is a contractor over there. He has been there since March, except for a short time home in August. He will be . . . more
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March 06, 2007 05:49 PM EST --
"As a boy looking at that globe, I grew up believing, as most people do,that the earth is round.Smoothed like a stone by thousands of years of evolution and revolution. Whittled by time.Scraped by . . . more
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March 18, 2007 03:24 PM EDT --
Seven days away
It seems I'm always waiting
For him to come home
In reality, I live from one homecoming to the next, that is what gets me through the 4 months at a time that he is . . . more
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August 26, 2007 10:57 PM EDT --
à Wombats are Marsupials in the Family Vombatidae, along with Koalas, so they have pouches in which to carry and suckle their young;
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September 30, 2006 09:45 AM EDT --
Another Saturday morning. I slept in for a bit, and launguished in under the soft warm comforter as I planned out my day. Last night was very cool here, and the breeze coming through my window . . . more
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November 24, 2007 07:06 AM EST --
The atrium of a hotel, India maybe, somewhere very hot.
Cool white marble, rivered with grey, the glass ceiling high above.
Groups of wicker chairs around glass top tables.
Tall, . . . more
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May 01, 2007 08:42 AM EDT --
Critique welcome
Somewhere East of Elko Nevada, Allen and Meg turned off the interstate to glide under the concrete canopy of a Philips 66 station. The canopy cast a deep blue pool . . . more
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November 04, 2006 09:10 PM EST --
I do not often wear bracelets now.
But just last week, I was looking for something, and opened up my big wooden jewelry box -- the one of black walnut, crafted without a single power tool, that Charley . . . more
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December 16, 2006 06:03 AM EST --
For the past week, we have been smelling something funny after driving the short distance from work to home(10 minute drive), we finally decided it was time to check under the hood of the car. We . . . more
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May 26, 2007 09:33 PM EDT --
Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this . . . more
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June 30, 2006 08:12 AM EDT --
In 1963 you could fly the Boston to Newark shuttle for $25 with your student discount. That's when I discovered air travel. I'd fly home from Boston University on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and spring . . . more
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July 26, 2006 01:22 AM EDT --
Recently, we drove up and down the coast visiting beautiful beaches (Corona Del Mar, La Jolla, back to the Balboa Pier, Huntington Beach and ended in watching some tremendous waves (12 feet)and . . . more
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