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While our daughter is in Tuscany on her second honeymoon as I write this, I'm already longing for Guatemala where Steve and I were married in 1974 just as the rainy season was beginning.
Originally, we were to be married in the outdoor chapel, not
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I just got back from a broke-as-hell, poorly planned excursion to the West Coast. I had to Spange for cash, eat out of a dumpster (only once), sleep out doors, live in a van AND work odd construction jobs for minimum wage, just to survive...It was
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It's hard and tite!!!!!
Read it like I call it a so called POEM that this action ACTUALLY happened to me..it's not fake.... and I won't tell you anythin' about it.
IT'S MY POEM and I spit nothing but just READ IT (it's not gross)..........just my mind
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After a 3-day backpack in The Enchantments with two friends, I did a 10-day solo in another part of the southeastern area of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness.
The ALW comprises a series of mountain ranges on both sides of the Cascade divide. This story
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The Alvord Desert lies in the SW corner of Oregon.
This Alvord Salt Lake is only a few muddy feet deep. There are hot springs seeps and some bath houses in the marshes pictured above.
The lake is surrounded by a larger dry lake bed that
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This is about a life long dream to circumnavigate the world on a surfing adventure. It has been modified to include some of Jolie's ambitions in travel. I would like for it to be something of a documentary of the event.
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This is about my transformation into being a chivani and not being marime.
Feel free to browse, but remember this is not edited. It's free flowing thought about what I'm going through. I made this for me, but anyone is welcome to knowledge.
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I am a mannequin. I have been traveling all over the world since 1983. The pictures here are real, no stupid computer tricks. These photographs are a tribute to all USA Citizen/Tourists, wherever in the world they may be.
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*The artwork is by Gina unless otherwise noted*.
Although i was born and raised in Los Angeles my memory was a bit foggy after being up in Idaho for over 25 years, so i went to the library and got some books about L.A., and I actually found some
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I came to Toronto from Pennsylvania in 2000 and I've never been sorry about my relocating here. As a perpetual foreigner with thick accent I feel much more accepted here than I ever was back in the US. Whoever came up with the famous phrase of a
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First destination on my round-the-world trip was essentially Home Sweet Home -- Alberta. I stopped to see friends and family in Calgary and Lethbridge, before heading up to my parents' place in Camrose. I got an early Christmas present of a surprise
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We're heading off for a 5 day trip into the backcountry. I, Wylie, will be travelling with my two nephews, Brad (age 13) and David (age 10).
We will be travelling around the Island in the Sky district on the White Rim Road. The Island in the Sky is
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I reached the big city to further my knowledge of thge fine arts. These entries are different than most. This trip, I decided to take on the study of a fast paced society, definately new to me. Let's see what society has to teach my youthful mind!
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In this journal you'll find photos and thoughts from hiking and out door adventures that I've enjoyed.
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Janet's cousin Warren's son, Jacob, was having his Bar Mitzvah in Denver on Aug 14, so the clan gathered for a weekend of family fun. We used this as an excuse to start our trip early and spend 2 weeks in Colorado - the last 10 days in the mountains to
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Dear Harriet and Edgar, here, with love, are photographs of our farewell to your son in keeping with his wishes to rest, with his most loyal dog Maggie, in the wilderness he most loved (and wrote about in "Hiking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness
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Almost as an afterthought, I dipped into the cargo box of backcountry maps, grabbed the Big Bend bag, and threw it in the luggage for our Thanksgiving 2004 visit to "Villa Acosta" in Terlingua, Texas—the family home of my wife Iselda.
Our first stop
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I was a housewife for the last 18 years, then I took on two parttime jobs. One job is seasonal, and I take high school groups on cruises throughout the spring. The other job is working at my friend's travel agency. Lots of cruises!!
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After 2 wintry weeks back in Canada and wonderful visits with family & friends we departed to the beautiful Fiji Islands. We arrived at the Airport in Nadi at 3am (after 2 very long tiring flights) to be greeted by this amazing Fijian
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Florida is the sunshine state, but in the winter, we get a few weeks of really chilly weather. Because of the humidity, a freeze in Florida can be really uncomfortable. Orange trees are ripe for picking, and it's really great weather to snuggle up next
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I’m one who’s thankful for small miracles. The decision to leave my job to pursue another position with another company was a huge one and the positioning, the pitting of prospective versus present employer, and all the requisite negotiations, were
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Well, hello boys and girls... if you've managed to navigate your way into this website, you're worthy of reading about our fantastical adventures! The countdown clock is at 8 days and counting... Check back then for more news!
G & D
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The Green River has its headwaters high along the western flank of the Wind River Range in western Wyoming. It flows south, through Flaming Gorge, into Utah. 40 miles later it enters the NW corner of Colorado. Here it passes into the Dinosaur National
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I started my travels the easy way, a well funded, organized trip to Germany, complete with Hotels, meals and an itinerary...We all have to get our feet wet somehow. This was the trip that showed me two things; That I wanted to travel, and that I didn't
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The company I worked for said I was crap and gave me lots of money to leave, so I threw some essentials (sink plug, bottle opener, foxes glacier fruits) into a bag and flew to New York.
Do you think American's are stupid? Well they are! One of them
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It was fall of 1984. I have decided to make a temporary escape from Pakistani Punjab to India when riots started in Lahore. Little did I know (or at that time did not care to know) that across the border, in Amritsar, Golden Temple was under siege and it
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Mon drapeau et celui de plus de 7 millions d`autres venus de partout mais surtout de la France. Nous sommes partis visiter la Gaspésie, Montréal, la famille et les amis(e).
My flag and the one of more than 7 millions people who came here from all
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Françoise la framboise, Micheline la bébé chouchou, Hélène la bébé lala.
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This journal will contain tales regarding our leaving the United States and our adventures in England.
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My husband Alberto and I were married last July (2002) in Querétaro, Mexico. He is from Querétaro, and I am from a small town in northwestern Illinois. We began dating in August 1998 while I spent my last semester of college studying abroad at the
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Well it begins again... we move from one apartment to another but this time I've no idea exactly where we are going to so this journal is about the journey we are beginning as of 2/1/2007...
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Climbing skins and a day in the backcountry can get you 5000 vertical feet of skiing in a day, and that is by no means conservative. Add a couple Polaris RMK 700 and you may well be branded 'New School' after harvesting 20,000 vertical feet of fresh in a
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This traveling culture is something to appreciate when witnessing a change of color in appearance from light to dark.
They had holocaust camps during the war. They stay hidden for their own reasons. They have no foundation? Psychic's, fortune telling,
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Okay. Like so many ppl keep askin me wuts wrong all da time -n- why i say some of da things that i do. So here u go ppl. Knock yourselves out -n- learn all that u can. Cause i no longer wanna answer any of your questions -n- i figure that if u really
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Living in Sausalito, Ca and working for a dotcom was the means to my kiteboarding end in the fall of 2000. Riding my bike to work across the Golden Gate in 20 knot winds could have turned into a nitemare, if I hadn't taken my eyes off the kiters at
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I like travelling...yes I do! :) I've been making trips here and there either alone or with family/friends and the more I travel, the more I realize that the world has so much to offer. I hope this page motivates your next trip... new experience is
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After the adventures in the desert and the rainforest, I though it was time for a different style of challenge.
3 girls, 6 days, 1 city and 100's of shops!
Was New York ready for us? Its hard to say....
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This is the journal of my first trip to India, and into an orphanage there, in March 2005.
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During the northern summer and autumn 2005 we are taking an extended break from work so that we can explore some of the more interesting areas in Europe. We leave in July and will be travelling through Turkey, Scandinavia, Britain, eastern Europe, Italy
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A remarkable — yet little known — fact about Nevada is that it is the most mountainous state in the country, with over 314 mountain ranges and peaks. On August 12, 2006, I, along with seven others, set out on an extended backpacking trip to explore three
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Here are the crazy ones, who decided on a beautiful day to go risk their lives just for the fun of it. The yurt we went to is at 7700 feet in the heart of Idaho's Rockies. We all had to ski in with our grubs, on a six miles uphill from hell. It was
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OK, all of the bantering and dares have become reality...the tickets arrived!! Now comes the chaos of actually planning, shopping, quitting jobs, and hitting the road...
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There are a handful of gypsies that roam the peaks of the Pacific Northwest. I happend to live amoungst many of them in the state of Idaho. This sort of mtn gypsy will often call on one another at the last minute to take off for some torterously fun
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In June '02 myself, Lea, Brett and Beaulea set out on our journey around the world.
Europe was first, followed by Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the USA.
It took 12 months of hard work to plan - now we just had to enjoy...
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This is my online journal about my experience of going to Queretaro, Mexico for three months to work as an English teacher. As I write this introduction, I am still at home in Minnesota. I'm not exactly sure what to expect at this point.
This is a
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The coordinates of a mental map of place are explored.
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On the Wednesday afternoon before Thanksgiving the tribe assembles. Dirtbags from Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, and even Alaska convene. We try to muster enough goodies to last the storm, which sometimes rages for 4 days.
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We gave our young Macedonian friend, Niki, his choice of US cities for his first visit beyond Chicago [where he is attending college and living with us]. He said "San Francisco!" He got no argument from us! Besides there was a foot of snow on the ground
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Truck Mileage 90443 km
Today my life as a Gypsy begins. Dad and I look at each other and decide to pack up and go. It is 1:00 and we figure we got a lot of work to get done before we go, but why wait until tomorrow? First things first though. I better
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Don't let anybody tell you they know it all about travelling the world - because they don't.
Some know more than others, sure, but the whole reason (I believe), that we bother to do it, is to find out for ourselves. And, of course, nobody has been
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USA was actually only a stop-over going to Guatemala. Don't read this as we dislike USA, it's just a too expensive a country to travel in when your're on a budget.
Well, we went to Housten and New Orleans. We've been both places before. Dieter prefere
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Visiting Ground Zero was one of the most emotional times I've ever experienced. Words can't describe the feelings of loss, sadness, and solemnity. Just too much to describe.
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This is the gang! This was actually taken at the end of the trip, but I put it here at the beginning so you will know who went on this marvelous journey to the Owyhee wildlands.
Introducing, left to right, Doug, DJ, Dennis, Heidi, Mark, Jeff, Carrie
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My 1st Week in Korea with Jamie
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Read about the week of unprecedented direct action (11/29-12/4) protesting the World Trade Organization: 600 protesters were arrested, WTO delegates left accomplishing little, and the Seattle police chief has resigned in disgrace
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This Journal Describes How Hard Like Is In The Life Of CHAD!!!!!!
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