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San Francisco Sailing
Craving California Sunshine? Summer is San Francisco’s Season of Fog The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ~quote widely misattributed to Mark Twain, probably originated with...
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Road Boat
On the Road: Jackalope Days When in doubt, let your horse do the thinkin’. ~ Old West Proverb My family’s annual summer road trip from Oregon to visit extended family in Ohio was a grueling, sweaty...
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New Irish Landmarks: Following the “Heaney Trail” .…be advised/My passport’s green./No glass of ours was ever raised/to toast The Queen. ~ Seamus Heaney, objecting to his inclusion in The Penguin Book...
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Ghost Tourism: Haunted Portland, Oregon Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between. ~ Neil Gaiman,...
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Travel Planning 101: Research Possibilities, Experiment with Options Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” ― Albert Einstein For the past few years I’ve enjoyed crafting...
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My Paris Romance: The Story of a Bookstore On a cold windswept street, this was a warm, cheerful place with a big stove in winter, tables and shelves of books, new books in the window, and photographs...
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Imagining the Secret Annex: What Anne Frank Means to Me I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” ~ Anne Frank, born June 12, 1929, Frankfurt, Germany – died...
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Encore Nights: Discovering French-American Rhythms in Paris and Dakar Life is a lot like jazz–it’s best when you improvise.” ― George Gershwin “You realize we just violated the rule of two,” I said to...
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