“Seeing” is the oversimplified verb used to describe traveling to, eating, sleeping, walking, viewing and experiencing a place. You might hear a lusty traveler, replete with camera bag, water bottle, hat, sunglasses and guidebook, declare “I’m off to see Venice” …
Category: Destinations
In the Philippines: Swimming With Whale Sharks by Larry and Gail Taylor
Anxiously, my wife and I sat on the edge of the boat, putting on fins, adjusting face masks, awaiting the guide’s nod to jump. We got it and launched ourselves, swimming behind him when-suddenly-we were eye-to-eye with a 40-foot leviathan, …
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Just Letting Go At Island Grand by Linda Oatman
I’m stretched out in my own private little cabana on a white sand beach, listening to the chirp of gulls and the banter of the ever-cheerful cabana attendants. These guys are as sunny as their bright Hawaiian shirts, and at …
Tale of Two Mardi Gras by Terry Zinn
Initially one always thinks of New Orleans when they hear Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday. But the Mardi Gras celebration complete with costumes, parades, ethnic foods and throws; is endemic to several towns. On my way to Houma, Louisiana for …
Going Coastal in Half Moon Bay, California by Patty Burness
The sun was peaking in and out of the fog as my husband and I left San Francisco early one Sunday morning and headed south. Cruising down Route 1 past San Pedro Point in Pacifica where surfers were hitting their …
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Mexico’s Day of the Dead Celebration
During the time when many Western countries are celebrating Hallowe’en at the end of October, Latin countries are preparing for the festival El Dia de los Muertes, or Day of the Dead, which is October 31 and November 1. I …
Florence, Italy: Food, Art, and Wanderings by Nell Raun-Linde
Two weeks in Florence, Italy. What a luxury! Instead of whizzing through the Uffizi, the Duomo, the marketplaces and piazzas, there would be time to savor this city of the Renaissance. The luxury came about because my friend, Sue, …
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TURKEY TODAY by Ron Pradinuk
When I was a child I discovered a candy bar called Turkish Delight. It would become my favourite treat for some time to come. Little could I realize then, that so many years later on my first visit to the …
Roll Out The Barrels in San Luis Obispo, California by Patty Burness
It’s a four hour drive from San Francisco south down Highway 101, but once you arrive in San Luis Obispo (SLO), the SLO lifestyle makes it all worth while – relaxed, down to earth and just plain easy. If you …
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Soft Adventure in the Great Smoky Mountains by Terry Zinn
Anniversaries are funny things. They seem to come around faster than imagined. I have visited Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains three times.(www.greatsmoky.com) Once was on our last family vacation, while I was in high school; once about 15 years ago; and …
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