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Cali - Tierra de mi Sangre, Land of my Blood.
May 2010 - Cali, Colombia.So as of this writing, I am long past the voyage herein recounted. Regardless, recounted it should be - Colombia overall is a fresh and provocative land. Alive and fresh...
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Salento - colonial, natural, but don't drink the water - extended post.
May 2010 - As travelers, we are often those who are most aware of the dynamic currents of our world systems, of events and things as they happen and we make our passages through. Salento, in el Quindio...
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Bogota - without the altitude sickness!!
June 2008. Bogota, Colombia.I don't know much what to say about Bogota. The capital city deserves so much more time than the few days I was able to spend there - while I enjoyed lots of what this...
View ArticleAsia - part the 2nd. And together
Greetings friends and family -We're once again traveling together! This installment of Transcontinental finds us on another low-budget, high-impact, great photo-op-filled journey thru Southern China...
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Now! To tantalize your senses... a rough draft photo post.
Chuc Mung Nam Moi!! Happy Lunar New Year!Year of the Cat in Vietnam; Year 4077, of the Rabbit, in China.Very literally, the end of the line. Terminus of the main train system in Saigon, Vietnam.Incense...
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Yangshuo - South Central China
Yangshuo, Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Province, China25 - 27 January 2011.While our overland excursion began first in Beijing, China - and to there we returned in our final week on the continent- the real...
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Saigon - not the Little one.
30 January - 5 February, 2011Saigon, Vietnam.Rice paddies along the way south from Hanoi, rather early into the 36-hour train ride.Large, crater-like ponds... I'm not sure of their origin, but the...
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Mui Ne Beach - Seaside amblings in a Socialist.. ..paradise?
5 - 8 Feb. 2011Mui Ne, Vietnam.This wanna-be sleepy beach town is split into two parts - tourist and local. The local side is a a neat sprawl of family homes, small temples, and few tall buildings, but...
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Dalat - Foray into the Alps... of Vietnam.
9 - 11 February Dalat, Vietnam. Hardy traveling companions, on the shores of Tuyen Lam Lake; on the way to Datanla Falls.After our extended stay in paradise, our crew opted for another get-away haven -...
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Nha Trang - Tourist city along the South China Sea
11 - 13 February, 2011. NhaTrang, KhanhHoa Province, VietnamLandscape enroute from Dalat. Lower Eastern slope of the country's South-Central Coast. Reflections along the journey - curves in the...
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Kicking it, Beijing-style
i <3 :=":" beijing="beijing" bj="bj" i="i" love="love" nbsp="nbsp" p="p"> [18 July 2012. It's well past time for an update. After...
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Journey highlights - Transit!
Clearly this post comes well after that spectacular trip - almost two years to the day. However, I need to keep the blog going. I'm heading out again soon for another trek (European return!) and as...
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Journey highlights - Worship
Worship: Fascinating to me everywhere I go are the places and practices of worship. I'll detour almost anywhere to see a spectacular temple, to find a quiet mosque, visit a quirky church, or burn...
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Panamaniacs!
Sunsets and Shorelines17 - 24 January 2013.On a whim and by request did I make this brief dream trip a reality. I admit, I was less than enthused by the destination when I was first being convinced on...
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Old City, New City - and the Canal in between
Urbanizacion PanamaBoth within and beyond the City's bounds it's evident there's a whole other side of Panama that spans time and crosses era's. Immediately upon arrival, on the ride from Panama City...
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Culture & People
La Gente y su Cultura17 - 24 Jan 2013. Partway through a rather short trip - and a few hundred photos in - I'm feeling like there's a strong undercurrent of some unique vitality here.. ..some lively...
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Back across the Pond!
April 2013So the journey continues... from the steamy, placid tropics I returned back to San Francisco and the Default world. For a time, the stability and familiarity of a place - and of course the...
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Ireland - 1 of 3: History! not details, but the sense of the thing.
I selected WAY too many photos from this part of my journey to expound much on what I learned of the history of Ireland. So that wont be my purview in this post - treatise and more have been written...
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Ireland, part the Secocnd - Politics & Economics
Politics and economics - what better way to instigate folks to a frenzy in a pub than these two topics? ...Oh yea. Religion!In any case, here, in Ireland, (as in many places around the world)...
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Eire, uimhir a trí - No Strength Without Unity
I've got no cause to boast claims as to what makes or doesn't a place. My own notions of where I go and who I meet, preconceived or otherwise, are put to the challenge always and in all ways by those...
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Belgium
8 - 11 May 2013 - Belgium My visit here was too short and too quick for my liking. However, I came to Belgium - and only too briefly to Brussels and the Flanders region - on an invitation from a good...
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bCN
11 May 2013 - 16 May 2013A grand, old City by the sea - Barcelona is the only European city to where I have returned. I LOVE this place. What, exactly, it is... I can't rightly say. But for some...
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Firenze!
17 - 21 May, 2013. Florence, Italy. So what is to say about Florence - or Firenze to the Italians and savvy travelers, like us? It is the ancient Italian City-State that gave impetus to the spread...
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Rome, the Ancient
20 - 25 May 2013 - Rome, ItalyThe City of Rome is OLD. This is a place where the concept of 'modern' begins in the 15th Century. The very buildings and structures here bespeak of ages passing, of...
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Rome - the modern
20 - 25 May 2013. Rome.Five days. That's all the time I had in Rome. It wasn't very much time to spend in this City, given its enormitude to the West. But I - with my esteemed travel companions -...
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