I have been migrating from Los Angeles to Haines, the prettiest little town in Southeast Alaska, for the last 40 years. Like the arctic tern in its epic 25,000- mile round trip journey and the salmon’s primordial yearning to return …
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Edmonton, Alberta’s Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village
ust East of this beautiful, capital city, with its many sky-scrapers and fascinating modern architecture, you’ll find a replica of an early Nineteenth Century town, which enables visitors to see the beginnings of Edmonton. The Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Center is …
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Alberta’s WonderLandscape
We traveled by RV all across Canada, primarily avoiding the cities and enjoying the beautiful landscape, people, mountains, rivers, National and Provencial Parks everywhere we went. Entering the province of Alberta from the East we passed through great grassy prairies, …
It’s All Good Under The Tuscan Sun
Sunday in Tuscany …Time Here: 4:30 p.m. Time Elsewhere: Nowhere else exists. There’s just this place, this sunlight, this peace, this moment in time . . . In Cortona, Italy. I’m writing this on a stone terrace with wrought iron …
Ashland: Scenery, History Plus Shakespeare by Larry and Gail Taylor
Years ago tourists came to Ashland, Oregon, for the waters; now they come to see the plays. From the early 1900s, Ashland locals were aware that the mineral waters bubbling up from Lithia Springs just outside town were beneficial in …
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Fine Pieces of China(Part 2) by Mary McIntosh
The next morning, tightly clasping my “now-working” camera., I turned to speak to John. He and his wife had traveled from Cincinnati. “Did you hear my camera’s working now?” John had suggested I try new batteries. “I’ll be able to …
Hills of Gold in France by Debra Amundson
It is not just food and wine the French are famous for; they are a notorious walking country. Franceonfoot.com offers the key to unraveling the puzzle of thousands of miles of foot trails that criss-cross France. The site can direct …
Re-building homes and lives in Honduras by Julie Thompson
As Tabitha Boonstra showed the children of La Esperanza in Honduras their picture on her digital camera, she could not believe their reaction. `They would come running up to you from wherever they were, and they’d be yelling `photo, photo!’ …
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Promise in Prague by Kim Bluth
Normally I don’t get anxious when traveling. I do loads of research on my chosen destination, from finding hotels to preparing itineraries, so that by the time of the trip my anxiety is dispelled, and I can look forward to …
RV Camping in Manitoba by Bonnie and Bill Neely
Driving our RV across Manitoba, we scouted the highways north to south and east to west and saw pretty countryside changing to prairie and farm land with huge sky beautifully reflected in all the many lakes. It is a picturesque …
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