Tag: travel
member name: Verie Sandborg
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December 16, 2009 03:02 PM EST --
"Where is Tunisia?" or " Why Tunisia?" These were the questions my daughter Pam and I frequently encountered last summer when we told people we would be traveling to Tunisia in mid October. It seems . . .
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April 05, 2007 09:08 PM EDT --
We're laughing as we exit the Athens airport into sunny, 65-degree weather. My daughter Pam and I are chuckling over something silly I've just done. As we walked out of customs, a man . . .
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November 22, 2008 02:20 PM EST --
Under Julius Caesar, the Romans first invaded Britain in 55 B.C.E. Over the next 475 years as they fought, interacted and lived in Britain, they left a strong imprint on the landscape and culture . . .
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July 29, 2007 03:46 PM EDT --
From April 5 to July 28, I published six travelogues on my March trip to Greece. My trip to Greece, as well as my trips to 27 other countries, have helped me become a more informed, a more compassionate . . .
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October 12, 2007 01:07 PM EDT --
My hair whips across my face as the open-air Jeep I'm riding in courses through the streets of Rio de Janeiro. This is the second day my friend Diane and I are in Rio, and our tour group is on the . . .
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May 11, 2008 11:35 AM EDT --
It is modest in size. Its message, however, is powerful and timeless. The Civil Rights Memorial Center in Montgomery, Alabama, is a place everyone should visit. Built by the Southern Poverty . . .
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October 09, 2008 03:36 PM EDT --
Dating to the Late Neolithic Period, the giant rocks of Stonehenge rise above the Salisbury Plain in England.
What's so special about Stonehenge? Yes, its mammoth stones dominate . . .
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October 27, 2008 04:36 PM EDT --
August 30, 2008. My daughter Pam and I are part of a Trafalgar tour of Britain, and our first major stop is the area about 80 miles northwest of London where William Shakespeare and his wife Anne . . .
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April 19, 2007 05:11 PM EDT --
Part I—The Athens Acropolis published April 5, 2007.
I awake at 3 AM on Tuesday. Jet lag has again struck me as it often does on the first few nights of a radical change in time zones. . . .
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June 17, 2007 03:21 PM EDT --
I park the car facing the Kalamazoo River in the Mt. Baldy parking lot. My daughter Pam and I plan to climb the 282 steps to the top of Mt. Baldy, a stabilized sand dune in Saugatuck, Michigan. . . .
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October 05, 2007 02:41 PM EDT --
It's Saturday afternoon, and my friend Diane and I gather with our tour mates on the rooftop terrace of our hotel. We arrived in Rio de Janeiro a few hours ago to spend a week visiting Rio, Iguassu . . .
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October 19, 2007 03:31 PM EDT --
As the train jolts along, I'm fascinated with the scenery on both sides of the tracks. My friend Diane and I, along with our tour group, are ascending Rio de Janeiro's Corcovado Mountain via . . .
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November 04, 2007 03:26 PM EST --
As we move toward the trailhead, we stop to watch a coati coming out of the foliage. The coati's ringed tail, white eye patches, and general behavior suggest it is related to the North American common . . .
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December 15, 2007 03:02 PM EST --
As our coach moves through the rain-soaked streets of Buenos Aires to begin a city tour, I muse that Buenos Aires has a different feel than Rio de Janeiro, which we visited a few days ago. It seems statelier . . .
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March 05, 2006 01:57 PM EST --
It's late afternoon when our tour coach pulls up to the Shakaland Zulu village near Eshowe, South Africa. The village guide, barefoot and wearing an apron of animal pelts and feather leggings . . .
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August 05, 2006 04:16 PM EDT --
As we drive away from watching a lion mating ritual, my tour mates and I excitedly discuss the experience. What a great way to end our South African safari at Kruger National Park!
We only have . . .
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July 01, 2007 03:52 PM EDT --
Maria, our tour guide, rouses me from my riding stupor with excited cries of "There's the bridge," as she instructs Nikos, the coach driver to stop. Ahead is the Rion-Antirion Bridge . . .
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May 11, 2007 01:23 PM EDT --
Today we head for the Peloponnesus Peninsula in southern Greece to visit the ruins at Corinth and Mycenae and the Theater of Epidaurus. Pam and I are sitting up front in the coach as we leave Athens, . . .
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May 25, 2007 03:06 PM EDT --
Pam is still at the hotel's breakfast buffet when I sit down to enjoy my breakfast of scrambled eggs and fresh fruit. She returns from the buffet announcing she's selected the Greek yogurt . . .
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July 28, 2007 03:47 PM EDT --
As we drive from Delphi to Kalambaka, the sunny weather our tour group enjoyed at the beginning of the week has given way to a mixture of clouds, haze, mists, and rain. We are staying in Kalambaka . . .
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