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  • USA Road Trip 2018
    • Still South: Monroeville, Montgomery and Nashville
    • In the Deep South: Mississippi and Alabama
    • Memories of Memphis
    • Cowboys, cowboys and more cowboys: Oklahoma City
    • The Atomic City: Los Alamos, New Mexico
    • Memories of New Mexico: Caves, Guns and Aliens
    • More Uses for Cockroaches: Queen Copper Mine in Bisbee, Arizona
    • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: Tombstone, Arizona
    • Weird Science: Biosphere2
    • No Bones About It: Pima Boneyard Tour
    • A ghost town with ghosts: Rhyolite, Nevada
    • A Question of Degrees: Death Valley
    • Warring with GPS: The Pacific Coast Highway
    • Into the (Red) Woods: Crescent City
    • The End of the Trail: Seaside, Oregon
    • Dallying in the Dakotas
    • All things West: Cody, Wyoming
    • Following the Faithful: Yellowstone National Park
    • Salt Lake City: All things Mormon Part II
    • Salt Lake City: All things Mormon
    • My aching Arches
    • Dallas and Bathrooms
  • Europe 2018
    • The Shooting in Strasbourg
    • Being a tourist in Paris during the Protests
    • Lukewarm in Iceland
    • WWI Battlefields: Flanders in France and Belgium
    • Beyond the Troubles: Belfast
    • “Doing” Dublin
    • Clockwise around Ireland
    • Captivating Kiev: The Ukraine
    • Greetings from sunny Chernobyl
    • Slow Travel Paris Style
    • Lithuania: The Dark and Lighter sides
    • French Lessons with the Chinese
    • The Downside of Technology: Paris Week 1
    • Settling into Paris
    • Loving (not) Latvia
    • Estonian Escapades
    • Stockholm Sights
    • Welcome to Europe: Stockholm
  • Travel Philosophy
    • How (not) to travel: The Reverse Bucket List
    • Departure from Plan #2
    • Scraphappy
    • Rethinking the Road part of the Road Trip
    • The Adventure Begins… sort of:
    • Why Travel?
    • Travel Tip for Canadians with no Zip Codes using credit cards and driving in the USA
  • Central Asia 2019
    • Uzbekistan: In search of a tyrant
    • A Very Weird Country: Turkmenistan
    • The Five Stans: Throwback to the USSR
  • Europe 2019
    • Norway’s Fjords from the Hurtigruten
    • On the train in Norway
    • Touring Copenhagen
    • Arles: About Van Gogh
    • Carcassonne: The Medieval City
    • Auvergne-Rhone-Alps: Valence, Annecy and Lyon
    • Surviving Ryanair and Marseille
    • Transylvania: Castles, Fortresses and the Transfagarasan
    • Bucharest: Ceausescu and Architecture
    • Bulgaria: Monasteries, Roses and Grannies
    • Revisiting Bill Clinton: Kosovo
    • About Albania
    • North Macedonia: Architecturally Amusing
    • Meandering through Montenegro
    • Serbia: Difficult to love
    • Bosnia Herzegovina: A Country of Bridges
    • Discovering Dalmatia
    • Sightseeing in Slovenia
    • Intro to the Balkans: Zagreb
    • Avignon: Popes, Lavender and Wine
    • Biking and Barging in Belgium and Holland
    • Three days in Brussels
    • Brittany Highlights
    • Cycling in Brittany
    • Liverpool: Reliving the Sixties
  • Middle East 2019
    • Doha: Multicultural and Diverse?
    • Lebanon: What a SNAFU
  • Australasia 2018/2019
    • Broome: Swept away?
    • Pretty in Pink: Lake Hillier
    • Wine Tasting Australian Style
    • World’s Best Drive? The Great Ocean Road
    • Cycling done right: Perth
    • The Ghan: The Train through Australia’s Center
    • Adelaide: A Boring City?
    • Drugged and Robbed in Manila
    • 13 Reasons I love Australia
    • Stalking Dragons in Komodo
    • Beautiful Bali
  • Canada 2018
    • O Canada: Two Scenic Drives
    • The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (Winnipeg)
  • Caribbean
    • Too Many Ports of Call: Caribbean Cruising
    • Sailing with the British
  • Africa
    • Ethiopian Journey II: Historical Sites
    • Ethiopian Journey I: A Most Inhospitable Place

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  • Home
  • About
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  • USA Road Trip 2018
    • Still South: Monroeville, Montgomery and Nashville
    • In the Deep South: Mississippi and Alabama
    • Memories of Memphis
    • Cowboys, cowboys and more cowboys: Oklahoma City
    • The Atomic City: Los Alamos, New Mexico
    • Memories of New Mexico: Caves, Guns and Aliens
    • More Uses for Cockroaches: Queen Copper Mine in Bisbee, Arizona
    • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: Tombstone, Arizona
    • Weird Science: Biosphere2
    • No Bones About It: Pima Boneyard Tour
    • A ghost town with ghosts: Rhyolite, Nevada
    • A Question of Degrees: Death Valley
    • Warring with GPS: The Pacific Coast Highway
    • Into the (Red) Woods: Crescent City
    • The End of the Trail: Seaside, Oregon
    • Dallying in the Dakotas
    • All things West: Cody, Wyoming
    • Following the Faithful: Yellowstone National Park
    • Salt Lake City: All things Mormon Part II
    • Salt Lake City: All things Mormon
    • My aching Arches
    • Dallas and Bathrooms
  • Europe 2018
    • The Shooting in Strasbourg
    • Being a tourist in Paris during the Protests
    • Lukewarm in Iceland
    • WWI Battlefields: Flanders in France and Belgium
    • Beyond the Troubles: Belfast
    • “Doing” Dublin
    • Clockwise around Ireland
    • Captivating Kiev: The Ukraine
    • Greetings from sunny Chernobyl
    • Slow Travel Paris Style
    • Lithuania: The Dark and Lighter sides
    • French Lessons with the Chinese
    • The Downside of Technology: Paris Week 1
    • Settling into Paris
    • Loving (not) Latvia
    • Estonian Escapades
    • Stockholm Sights
    • Welcome to Europe: Stockholm
  • Travel Philosophy
    • How (not) to travel: The Reverse Bucket List
    • Departure from Plan #2
    • Scraphappy
    • Rethinking the Road part of the Road Trip
    • The Adventure Begins… sort of:
    • Why Travel?
    • Travel Tip for Canadians with no Zip Codes using credit cards and driving in the USA
  • Central Asia 2019
    • Uzbekistan: In search of a tyrant
    • A Very Weird Country: Turkmenistan
    • The Five Stans: Throwback to the USSR
  • Europe 2019
    • Norway’s Fjords from the Hurtigruten
    • On the train in Norway
    • Touring Copenhagen
    • Arles: About Van Gogh
    • Carcassonne: The Medieval City
    • Auvergne-Rhone-Alps: Valence, Annecy and Lyon
    • Surviving Ryanair and Marseille
    • Transylvania: Castles, Fortresses and the Transfagarasan
    • Bucharest: Ceausescu and Architecture
    • Bulgaria: Monasteries, Roses and Grannies
    • Revisiting Bill Clinton: Kosovo
    • About Albania
    • North Macedonia: Architecturally Amusing
    • Meandering through Montenegro
    • Serbia: Difficult to love
    • Bosnia Herzegovina: A Country of Bridges
    • Discovering Dalmatia
    • Sightseeing in Slovenia
    • Intro to the Balkans: Zagreb
    • Avignon: Popes, Lavender and Wine
    • Biking and Barging in Belgium and Holland
    • Three days in Brussels
    • Brittany Highlights
    • Cycling in Brittany
    • Liverpool: Reliving the Sixties
  • Middle East 2019
    • Doha: Multicultural and Diverse?
    • Lebanon: What a SNAFU
  • Australasia 2018/2019
    • Broome: Swept away?
    • Pretty in Pink: Lake Hillier
    • Wine Tasting Australian Style
    • World’s Best Drive? The Great Ocean Road
    • Cycling done right: Perth
    • The Ghan: The Train through Australia’s Center
    • Adelaide: A Boring City?
    • Drugged and Robbed in Manila
    • 13 Reasons I love Australia
    • Stalking Dragons in Komodo
    • Beautiful Bali
  • Canada 2018
    • O Canada: Two Scenic Drives
    • The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (Winnipeg)
  • Caribbean
    • Too Many Ports of Call: Caribbean Cruising
    • Sailing with the British
  • Africa
    • Ethiopian Journey II: Historical Sites
    • Ethiopian Journey I: A Most Inhospitable Place
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