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Travel Photo Thursday: Silhouette Shots

Travel Photo Thursday

When taking photos as a kid using the family’s Kodak “Brownie” box camera, I was told to always stand with the sun coming over my shoulder.  By doing so, the sunlight would bounce off of the subject of the photo—often a friend or relative—back through the camera’s lens and onto the film. The result: Brightly [...]

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Travel Photo Thursday: Reflections of A City

Travel Photo Thursday
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In “Travel Photo Thursday:  Who Stole My Sunshine?” I used a photo of Chateau de Chenonceau in France’s Loire Valley to illustrate how a photographer can use reflections of a building into a river on a cloudy day to create a a memorable shot.  This week, I’ll present another way of using reflections in a [...]

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Shopping (and Singing) Until You’re Dropping at The Mall

Christmas Holiday Videos

Are these Chicago-area mall singers celebrating the beginning of after-Christmas sales? Maybe so. Tales Told From The Road wishes you a Happy Holiday Season wherever you are spending it.  Be sure to watch our other Christmas Holiday Videos. Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2011 Dick Jordan

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Maui’s Best Entertainment Bargain

Destination Updates

Volunteer actors? $15 ticket price? This show must be bad, right? Wrong! The Sunday matinee performance of “Chicago” that I attended at the historic Iao Theater in Wailuku (about as far “Off-Broadway” as you can get while remaining in the U.S.) was beyond amazing and on par with plays I have seen at the renowned [...]

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Remembering Martin Luther King, Chicago, And Miami

Travel Essays

During my conversation about Chicago with Rick Steves and Amanda Scotese yesterday, I mentioned to Rick that I had first visited Chicago during a stopover on the way to a Luther League convention in Miami Beach, Florida.  It was my first “Big Trip” away from home and I recall it vividly on this day in [...]

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Having Fun On The Radio With Rick Steves!

Other Stuff

From time to time Rick Steves, best known for his “Rick Steves’ Europe” PBS television travelogues, interviews travel experts and ordinary travelers for his radio program, “Travel With Rick Steves.” Yesterday I had great fun chatting with Rick and his guest expert, native Berliner Fabian Rueger, about my favorite city in Germany – Dresden – [...]

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Destination Update (9/16/10)

Destination Updates

Here are this week’s travel destination stories on the Web: Delicious Downtown L.A. (The New York Times) Boston’s Harbor Islands (The Washington Post) Flying Fish Eco-Village (GoNOMAD.com) Passage To Ancient Times (The New York Times) Twenty “Must Try” Restaurants (Chicago Tribune) Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Where Art Thou? (The Washington Post) 36 Hours In Charleston (The New [...]

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Destination Update (6/24/10)

Destination Updates

Here are this week’s travel destination stories on the Web: High Sierra Summer (San Francisco Chronicle) Upscale U.S. Rail Travel (The Los Angeles Times) Driving The Blue Ridge Parkway (AP via The Seattle Times) Big Apple Boutique Hotels (The New York Times) Amtraking America (The Los Angeles Times) An Alaskan Summer Solstice (The Oregonian) Lerici?  [...]

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Blast From The Past: Up (And Down) A Lazy River

Trip Blog Posts

Cooler, spring-like temperatures and sunny skies prevailed today as we took two guided tours (one on land, one on water) of the Windy City.

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Blast From The Past: Take Me Out To The Ballgame

Trip Blog Posts

Take me out to the ballgame, take me out to the park Buy me peanuts and crackerjacks, Bratwurst, nachos, and all of the snacks. Because it’s stuff, stuff, stuff your face full, Whether the Cubbies win or lose, and It’s One, Two, Three Strikes You’re Out At the Old Ball Game!

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Blast From The Past: Riding The Rails to Miami

Trip Blog Posts

On an evening in August of 1961 I was one of a few hundred 14-16 year old kids who boarded a train at Seattle’s King Street Station bound for Florida on our first big-time adventure trip.

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