travel
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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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First Experiences in Tanzania – Arrival in Dar es Salaam and Heading to Work
More Details: First Experiences in Tanzania – Arrival in Dar es Salaam and Heading to WorkBefore the days of this blog, I would send periodic emails to family and friends about my travel. At first it was report that I’d made it to wherever and then I started adding some of the things I was seeing for no real reason other than I wanted to tell someone about anything interesting…
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My First Landing in Europe – Spain via Amsterdam
More Details: My First Landing in Europe – Spain via AmsterdamBack in early 1992, a couple of friends and I had the flash thought that we needed to go to the Olympics in Barcelona that summer. Why not, right? As we started reading about Spain we decided we needed to check out a few places besides Barcelona which was bound to be zoo-like during the…
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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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Photo of the Week – Grapes of Bordeaux
More Details: Photo of the Week – Grapes of BordeauxVisiting Chateau Ducru Beaucaillou in St. Julien was a neat experience since we got a private tour. But, of course, my eyes go to the grapes and the vines. Thinking how these little round things will produce a wonderful liquid for us humans to enjoy… This picture is to not me about perfection in photographic technique but…
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Photos of the Week – Sights of Chile
More Details: Photos of the Week – Sights of ChileI loved Chile from a 3-month stint there 20 yrs ago before I went back in Dec 2009. I have written about what I saw, did and felt in other entries in my blog so I won’t repeat myself, but I continue to long to go back even after spending all of 2010 in Chile… …
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Chandeliers of The Hermitage
More Details: Chandeliers of The HermitageWhile I am not obsessed with chandeliers and the like, I noticed after getting home from visiting St. Pete (as I call it), how many pictures of chandeliers I took at The Hermitage (and of the ceilings). They are definitely elegant but their designs were not too stuffy. Not being a connoisseur, but still having…
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Exploring Some of Copenhagen, Denmark
More Details: Exploring Some of Copenhagen, DenmarkMy trip to Copenhagen involved 9 people from three different starting points. My aunt and uncle from Miami drove to Tampa to meet the rest of the group (minus me) there. Then the group was flying from Tampa to Atlanta to then connect with me at Hartsfield to catch the flight to Copenhagen. Needless to…
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Photo of the Week – New for the Blog!
More Details: Photo of the Week – New for the Blog!A new add-on to the blog… I have so many pictures from the places I have been to… since pictures sometimes say more than 1,000 words (or “1K” words to be more modern…), I’d thought I’d share them. No use just having them on my laptop! Though I will not be able to post the…