Tag: travel
group name: famousfirsts
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January 28, 2007 10:13 PM EST --
Last week, I went for a short trip to the Bahamas for my first visit. It was for a much needed break from months of 6-7 day work weeks and long days. My oldest son, MJ, had one week left . . . more
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January 17, 2007 01:05 PM EST --
This is the final chapter of my recent 32 day trip of Africa (Cape Town to Cairo) and post trip to Jordan.
It was good to get to sleep late before we had to go.
Hamdy got us all checked in-no . . . more
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May 24, 2007 01:40 PM EDT --
I have been to Italy twice so far in my relatively young life. Each time was an entirely different experience. The first time I went was when I was in high school with my older sister, Vicki, who had . . . more
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November 06, 2006 12:37 AM EST --
I just recently returned from a wonderful vacation. My husband and I decided to go on our first cruise and we chose the Bahamas as our destination. I wanted to write just a little bit about it and how . . . more
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September 16, 2006 03:58 PM EDT --
Our entrance to Moscow was certainly grand.
Wide boulevards stretched over the land.
Not enough film for all the gold domes,
Wedding cake buildings, diplomat's homes,
Towers, and spires and bright . . . more
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April 23, 2007 11:50 PM EDT --
Homemade Soba Noodles
“My wife’s mother is making soba noodles for us for dinner.” Buddhist Monk Yoshihiro Unezawa told me and made a circular motion with his hands - the . . . more
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October 18, 2006 02:29 AM EDT --
I had never been on a commercial airplane before. But here I was boarding an American Airline flight headed for Chicago. I had been accepted as a stewardess trainee. I was 22 years old . . . more
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June 12, 2007 07:45 AM EDT --
THE HOPE OF A DREAM
It is center stage,
And life is a play,
We turn the page
For another day:
It’s the game of life,
The one we live;
Sometimes . . . more
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February 10, 2007 09:12 PM EST --
One frigid night in Fairbanks, Alaska, with the northern lights dancing in the sky, I, along with my husband Bill, were on our way to the Cathredral on Peger Street to . . . more
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June 23, 2008 12:35 AM EDT --
Part 1 An Insider's Guide to Montreal: East End - 2008
The 16th and 17th Centuries
Before Montreal was a city, it was Hochelaga , a village the Iroquois had established . . . more
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August 13, 2007 01:41 AM EDT --
During a conversation with a friend of mine, I had an idea, his family needed shelter and I had a mobile home empty that no one was living in so I suggested he move his family to Louisiana and they . . . more
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April 20, 2007 06:47 PM EDT --
To readers: this 'comment'/question was asked of Tom Gerace on his "talk with god" comment thread. Hundreds of us sincere Gather members anxiously await his response. Or, . . . more
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January 15, 2007 11:50 PM EST --
Nairobi is close to the equator,
But at 5,000 plus it's surprising weather.
Not very hot and we're there one night.
The contrast in living is quite a sight.
Our Land Rovers came and we headed . . . more
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July 06, 2007 03:32 PM EDT --
I went to work first - and clocked in. I met with the other teacher who was going. The students met us upstairs - we're hoping that others hadn't been turned away by school . . . more
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November 01, 2006 06:14 AM EST --
Before Father and I left for Iran I told myself I would not post about politics. I'm still very hesitant to do so, mostly because people will think I have 'gone native' if I do. But sometimes . . . more
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January 19, 2007 04:32 AM EST --
Could it be in the travels of my mind
I will ever meet a parallel to my heart?
Could it be that somewhere along the way
I've passed a future never giving it a thought?
My sails have billowed . . . more
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July 31, 2007 06:12 AM EDT --
As I sit here, shivering in the depths of a Southern Hemisphere winter, the call comes out from Gather Travel : I read of temperatures in the nineties and of dreams of summer days at the beach, and naturally . . . more
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September 17, 2006 07:48 AM EDT --
A few nights ago I had my first experience with the Chinese Welfare Lottery.
It was after my extremely difficult Chinese class in which I understood next to nothing that I went with Winnipeg to dinner . . . more
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January 24, 2007 07:08 AM EST --
ORLANDO (AP) - Flight attendants often deal with obnoxious passengers who won't listen to instructions by kicking them off the plane. But a Massachusetts couple think AirTran Airways went overboard . . . more
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February 06, 2007 03:13 AM EST --
I
Jupiter
Wrote his first stanza
Cruising through
The happy jungle of stars
In the dawn of time
II
He breathed
New life into the galaxy by
Feeding . . . more
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