Travel Blogs
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Digging Up History in Porto Torres, Sardinia
Can you imagine? You are building a new train station, and every time you put a shovel to the ground you dig up an ancient statue, vase or Roman coin. This is the case in Porto Torres--a working dock city on the island of Sardinia. Like a...
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Chocked Tentacle in Alghero, Sardinia
It’s a pleasant thirty minutes ride from Sassari, where we were staying, to the seaside gem of Alghero on the famous "Little Green Train" (Trenino Verde). This popular narrow gauge railroad serves Sardinia and dates back to 1888. In 1921,...
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Adventures in Nest Swapping
One of the many advantages to having an empty nest is the freedom to swap your nest with other adventurous types. We decided that before we sold our house, we would try using it as bait for a cheap month in New York City. Being in the habit of Googling at...
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THE LAND OF EQUATOR
Bumi Khatulistiwa ( The Land of Equator ) is the most attribute for the city of West Kalimantan province, Pontianak which is crossed by equator. The city was founded in 1771 by Sultan Syarif Abdurrachman Algadrie, an Arabian. Kapuas river flowing across...
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The 1982 Denver Blizzard
This story is about the trip we took to see my mom at Christmas, 1982. She lived in Evans, Colorado and we lived in Page, Arizona. We had decided to take our four sons in our Dodge van not knowing what the weather had in store. We...
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Feeding tall animals and such
I am going to put it right out there up front . . . I do not write. Many of the people who know me well would make the argument that I don’t even read. I do, however, have a vast collection of relatively useless information...
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Sardinia Has the Best Donkey
The Italian island of Sardinia (Sardegna) brought out the adventurer in us. Our first stop was Sassari, a city of about 120,000 with a rich history dating back to the early Middle Ages. A college town, home to the University of Sassari with about 18,000...
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Trip
Yes, we took in a lot of sites,but we are from Nova Scotia..also we took some pictures of the wedding..if you are intrested I can put them on..I have a lot of pictures of different places of my city (Halifax..etc on disk as well if you would like to see...
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MY Trip
MY Husband & I have just returned from our trip to Nova Scotia ,we had a great time at my Grand nieces wedding ..Spent a few days with my oldest daughters..so nice to see a lot of my family there this trip..great to be back to the Soo ..I missed...
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mike the traveling man
Hey this is mike the traveling man, we just got back from a two month vacation in Puerto Rico. Man was it fabulous, the beautiful beaches and rain forests, serene mountains and scenery(see photo's) and some of the most beautiful women I've see in my...
