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Barbie “Does” Prague?

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(Friday, September 4, 2009, Prague) A major attractions in Prague is the “Prague Castle”. It’s not a single, fairy-tale, Disneyland type castle, but rather a large complex of several buildings, including the famous St. Vitus Cathedral, and the offices of the President of the Czech Republic. One of the more interesting venues within the castle [...]

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“Ashland Never Changes”

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“Venice Never Changes.”  That is the watchword of natives of Italy’s famous city of canals, I was told ten years ago by American-born, Venetian-resident, Samantha Durrell, over coffee in her apartment during a break in a private tour of the back streets and alleys of her adopted hometown that she was taking me on.  They [...]

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The Ice Cream Mountains

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Sunday, October 8, Ashland, Oregon As one drives north on I-5 and nears Red Bluff in the northern reaches of California’s Great Central Valley, Mount Lassen to the northeast, and Mount Shasta, dead-ahead, begin to loom like volcanic ice cream cones through the bug-spattered windshield above the car’s dashboard. In July or August, when I [...]

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North to Alaska! On to Glacier Bay

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(Dick Jordan spent two weeks traveling throughout Southeast Alaska in June of 2008.  Here’s an edited excerpt from the blog he wrote during the trip; look for more installments in the near future.) (Tuesday, June 17). The sun was shining when we woke up this morning — two days in a row — it must [...]

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North to Alaska! What’s That Big Yellow Thing in The Sky?

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(Dick Jordan spent two weeks traveling throughout Southeast Alaska in June of 2008.  Here’s an edited excerpt from the blog he wrote during the trip; look for more installments in the near future.) (Monday, June 16 – Juneau). We woke this morning to see something that had been absent for a week: The sun. Seizing [...]

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North To Alaska! Sailing To Juneau

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(Dick Jordan spent two weeks traveling throughout Southeast Alaska in June of 2008.  Here’s an edited excerpt from the blog he wrote during the trip; look for more installments in the near future.) (Sunday, June 15 – Sitka to Juneau). The sun came out for a bit as we spent our final few hours in [...]

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North To Alaska! Mozart On La Mer

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(Dick Jordan spent two weeks traveling throughout Southeast Alaska in June of 2008.  Here’s an edited excerpt from the blog he wrote during the trip; look for more installments in the near future.) (Saturday, June 14 – Sitka). While we were waiting for our evening tour boat, the Saint Michael, to cast off, we trained [...]

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North To Alaska! Rain, Rain, Go Away!

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With no break in the weather today, what’s a tourist to do but put on a rain jacket, grab a hat, and take a hike in the woods. We tossed some duds in the washer at our apartment this morning, had breakfast, put the clothes in the dryer, and drove up the road a mile [...]

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North To Alaska! Play Like An Eagle

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(Dick Jordan spent two weeks traveling throughout Southeast Alaska in June of 2008.  Here’s an edited excerpt from the blog he wrote during the trip; look for more installments in the near future.) (Saturday, June 14, Sitka). Harrigan Centennial Hall was full-up for last night’s Summer Music Festival concert. Since nearly everyone “dresses down” in [...]

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North To Alaska! Eagle-City And The Russian Bishop

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(Dick Jordan spent two weeks traveling throughout Southeast Alaska in June of 2008.  Here’s an edited excerpt from the blog he wrote during the trip; look for more installments in the near future). Cloudy skies greeted us again this morning and a few rain showers fell on our car as we drove into town. After [...]

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North To Alaska! Indian Jones (Part Deux)

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(Dick Jordan spent two weeks traveling throughout Southeast Alaska in June of 2008.  Here’s an edited excerpt from the blog he wrote during the trip; look for more installments in the near future). My technology problems continued last night and the last “post” got cut off in midstream. So here’s the finish to that story. [...]

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North To Alaska! Indiana Jones And The Cathedral Of St. Michael

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(Dick Jordan spent two weeks traveling throughout Southeast Alaska in June of 2008.  Here’s an edited excerpt from the blog he wrote during the trip; look for more installments in the near future). (Thursday, June 12 – Sitka) Although the sun “rose” sometime between 3 and 4 am here in Sitka, we managed to lay [...]

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The Twelve Days Of An Alaskan Christmas

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On the twelfth day of Christmas My Alaska tour guide gave to me: Twelve seals a-pupping, Eleven humpbacks spouting, Ten mosquitoes a-buzzing, Nine puffins flying, Eight lupines blooming, Seven glaciers calving, Six brown bears fishing, Five boat rides, Four totem poles, Three small plane flights, Two banana slugs, And a moose under a Sitka spruce [...]

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North To Alaska! Land Of The Almost-Midnight-Sun

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(Dick Jordan spent two weeks traveling throughout Southeast Alaska in June of 2008.  Here’s an edited excerpt from the blog he wrote during the trip; look for more installments in the near future). (Wednesday, June 11, Sitka). It’s 10:14 pm Alaska time (11:14 on the Left Coast). Our plane touched down about 10 minutes late [...]

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North To Alaska! Let The Sunshine In

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(Dick Jordan spent two weeks traveling throughout Southeast Alaska in June of 2008.  In the last “North To Alaska!” post he was on his way to Seattle for a two-night layover on the way to Alaska.  The story resumes today as he boards a flight from Seattle to Sitka). (Wednesday, June 11 – Somewhere Over [...]

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North To Alaska! Feasting At Angels 40

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(Monday, June 9 — Somewhere Over Oregon). Nothing like a complimentary glass or two of Chateau Fuel d’Aviation of an uncertain vintage paired with a Roast Bird of Some Sort on Dry Bread (a “buy off-board” option) to make for elaborate meal in First Class flying at 40,000 feet over the northern end of California’s [...]

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North To Alaska! All Packed and Ready to Go! Not!

Alaska

(On the last four Mondays Tales Told From The Road has run a “Special Report” on Alaska travel. Dick Jordan spent two weeks traveling throughout Southeast Alaska in June of 2008.  Here’s an edited excerpt from the blog he wrote during the trip; look for more installments in the near future). No, we’re not packed. [...]

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