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Reflections on Beginnings and Endings…
More Details: Reflections on Beginnings and Endings…I was having a conversation with a dear friend who already has lost both her parents. It was a bittersweet conversation remembering parents gone on both sides and how parental relationships live on beyond that event called “death.” The conversation took me back to reflections I have been having this past week about how life,…
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Melodies and Travel Memories
More Details: Melodies and Travel MemoriesLeah, from leahtravels.com wrote a post about melodies and the travel memories they bring. It is a great idea for a post and I will be tagging 7 others as she tagged me in her writeup. As a kid, we did not do family vacations as we did not have the means and we lived…
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Quote of the Week: Travel and Open-Mindedness
More Details: Quote of the Week: Travel and Open-Mindedness“One’s destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things.” Henry Miller
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The Spark That Triggered My Wanderlust
More Details: The Spark That Triggered My WanderlustI have been blessed with the opportunity to travel by work and through my own means. The zeal for discovery began when I was about 7-8 years old and I started collecting stamps. Seeing stamps from many places that were so far away in distance and in reachability (pre- airline deregulation days!), created in me…
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Guest Blogger: Travel Etiquette Faux-Pas that Make for a Bitchy Traveler
More Details: Guest Blogger: Travel Etiquette Faux-Pas that Make for a Bitchy TravelerIlivetotravel Note: I saw this post on a friend’s Facebook page and thought it was a perfect reflection on what we, the very-frequent flyers, put up with in the less glamourous type of travel called “business travel”. Enjoy and thanks to Ashley (@mybookfetish) for a great post! ======================================================================== That’s me. I’m a bitchy traveler. I…
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Ski Gear – from Hell?
More Details: Ski Gear – from Hell?Imagine… 10,000 years from now. Civilization has disappeared. Climate change eliminate snowfall. And some visitors come to the planet to find many items humans had used. Many will make sense, others will only make sense if they see videos/pictures, and yet others will never, ever, make sense to them. I just used some of those…
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Musings of a Frequent Traveler Point Chaser
More Details: Musings of a Frequent Traveler Point ChaserA friend confessed to me a couple of months ago that he had become a mile/point whore with airlines and hotels. I laughed because I related to what he was saying though perhaps my interest wasn’t to the level of obsession as may have been the case with him. That is, until I started thinking……
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Steve Jobs, Technology and Travel
More Details: Steve Jobs, Technology and TravelSteve Jobs’ passing should come as no surprise. We are all going to die someday. What seems is so different about his is that it is about someone who in the span of sort of 30-35 years brought about a revolution in how technology fits into our lives. Or better said, of how our lives…
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A Propos of Earthquakes
More Details: A Propos of EarthquakesAs I have written elsewhere in this blog, I missed the Chile earthquake of Feb 2010 by a day and a half. How lucky of me! Our company did not allow us to return for 3 weeks and in those 3 weeks the more powerful aftershocks took place so I also missed those mercifully since…