Category: travel
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This travel blog — I stumbled on it while gawking around the vast universe of travel blogs — caught my attention for its depth of coverage. The Wandering Queen surprised me for its effort to provide detailed and useful information about places and gear. Since it covers areas I’m familiar with (including Oregon and western…
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Searching online for some inspiration from author Kurt Vonnegut, I stumbled on an intriguing website. But first, here’s the quote — an exchange between characters in the novel “Cat’s Cradle.” “Self-taught, are you?” Julian Castle asked Newt.“Isn’t everybody?” Newt inquired.“Very good answer.” I found this in a short list of Vonnegut quotes put together by…
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…or why we went to Philadelphia. The United States offers plenty of opportunities to see big boats masquerading as museums and I have been to a few of them. Most recently, the light ship Columbia, a floating lighthouse that helped ships find their way to the mouth of the Columbia River from 1951 to 1979.…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 