Category: travel
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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.…
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Cameron Lake, Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada The air is still, so windless that the water itself hardly moves, reflecting sky and Rocky Mountains. Not so many people know about Cameron Lake, one of many tucked among the stunning peaks of Waterton Lakes National Park in western Alberta. The much better known Glacier National Park…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 