Travel Stories
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And Work Took Me Places…
More Details: And Work Took Me Places…A lot of my international travels have been part of or enabled by work. Whether is being asked if in 24 hours I could leave for Helsinki to spend 3 weeks there in the middle of winter, or whether the miles accumulated by years of sometimes-weekly travel have allowed me to go out of the…
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Where Have I Been? My Countries Visited Map
More Details: Where Have I Been? My Countries Visited MapSo here is my countries-visited map as of today… Filling out a part of the map seems a possible criteria to determine my next set of destinations. Well, I would not pick probably based on that but it sure is tempting! For example, Ireland and Portugal would close up a good part of Europe. Guatemala,…
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Photo of the Week – Suitcase of the Past
More Details: Photo of the Week – Suitcase of the PastI, for one, am glad luggage has evolved since the days when this was what you had to lug around an airport and through security. OK, those were not the things of the time but this trunk still had to be moved around! (From a small museum in Madison, GA)
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How Ashes Changed my Vacation – Who Knew They Could!,
More Details: How Ashes Changed my Vacation – Who Knew They Could!,Well, my trip to Europe was to be a few days in Bulgaria attending a wedding and then a quick jump to Copenhagen. Bulgaria happened. Denmark did not. Ashes were to blame. I arrived in Europe at Frankfurt where I was meeting up with my cousin and then traveling together to Sofia, Bulgaria. Right before…
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What Makes All the Difference on a Business Trip…
More Details: What Makes All the Difference on a Business Trip…I am sitting on the 22nd floor of my hotel room in Santiago wanting to catch up on my writing and talk about my trip to Valparaiso, Chile, catch up on earthquake impacts to a trip to the lake district, and other discoveries about Santiago. But I’m too distracted. Too distracted with work. With getting…
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2009 in Review
More Details: 2009 in ReviewWell, 2009 is almost in the books and who would have told me at this same point in 2008 all that I would do in 2009! On the less glamorous side, sinus surgery and losing my job. Yep, I wouldn’t have imagined both. But, on the more exciting side of things, I certainly had even…
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Language When Traveling Abroad
More Details: Language When Traveling AbroadWhen traveling outside one’s country, language can be a barrier, a nuisance, or part of the adventure. As much as I can, I try to make it the latter. Case in point: the trip I just completed to Poland. Though I was told many people I would deal with as a tourist in Poland would…
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Musings about Destinations
More Details: Musings about DestinationsI am in the midst of transcribing the rest of my Perú trip narratives and yet I am knee deep researching for my next trip… How do these narratives begin to backlog? That is how! Maybe I should just plan a month off and catch up on all the trips from the past I want…