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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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March 14, 2007 08:00 AM EDT --
For the whole of February and some days in March, I was away from Gather and it felt really strange, not able to communicate with this group that has come to mean so much to me in a short while. . . .
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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 . . .
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September 16, 2006 03:34 PM EDT --
Some came by air, others by sea,
We all came together in Helsinki.
We saw all the sights that Catherine did show.
We stopped at the market 'til we had to go.
We boarded the ferry, the Baltic to . . .
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January 15, 2007 12:59 AM EST --
Africa beckons, we must heed the call.
We meet in New York and greet one and all.
South African Air takes us to Dakar,
An overnight flight takes us afar.
Johannesburg then is our first overnight.
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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, . . .
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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 . . .
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March 01, 2007 12:35 PM EST --
The Lost America that I knew
From the days of living in a four room shack in the backwoods bayou bottoms of Arkansas county Arkansas with only the bare essentials, wood cooking and heating, bed, . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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