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Lots happening with the Mountain Gorillas. One day after FAB’s publicaton of Fyllis Hockman’s blog, Trekking Mountain Gorillas in Uganda, NPR published Alexandra Starr’s, Congolese Activists Honored for Fighting Oil Exploration in Virunga National Park. In her article, Ms. Starr…
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The eight of us huddled together, warned repeatedly to stay close and keep quiet. A soft cough escaped from one of our party and the guide looked immediately askance. Coughing and sneezing were very much frowned upon. If you’re scraped…
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Austin Texas has lots of cool stuff…UT, tallest state capitol, Barton Springs, worst traffic (OK that’s not so cool) and Trucklandia. Truck…what? Trucklandia, the largest food truck festival in the world, opened their trailer windows and handed out samples of…
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Queens, the largest of NYC’s five boroughs by size, is home to over 2.3 million people, which would make it the fourth largest city in the U.S. if it were not part of NYC. Queens’ melting pot boasts a brew of…
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To many people, Monticello and Charlottesville, Virginia are synonymous. Indeed, even more than his famous home, the presence of Thomas Jefferson, the Man, can be felt throughout the quiet college town, about a three-hour drive from Washington, D.C. For any…
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By contrast to most tours, we went on our own to Spain and chose not to spend time in the largest cities of Madrid and Barcelona but to tour the historic sites of fabled ancient cities of Toledo, Granada, and…
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When I first saw Jason deCaires Taylor’s sculpture, The Rising Tide, I was godsmacked! For all you Yanks out there, godsmacked is British slang. To translate into the American lexicon, it means astounded. The way the sculptures seemingly rise up…
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The drive through the Trossachs National Park along Lake Lomond is beautiful with hills rolling in light green grass, and many of them had thick forests of evergreens and deciduous trees. This is picturesque countryside. We stopped along the way…
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Sure, we are all now accustomed to hotel rooms admonishing us to leave the towels on the rack so they can be reused. And occasionally, we come across two waste baskets in the room, one for recycling paper. And we…
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I was contacted a few months ago by the PR firm representing Nova Star Cruises, a large car and passenger cruise ferry that was scheduled to begin service between Portland, Maine & Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on June 1st. Was I…
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