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Travel Essay: Remembering Quincy

Travel Essays

I met Quincy in July of 1984 at a campground just west of the McKenzie Pass on Highway 242 which runs between the Willamette Valley and the town of Sisters on the east side of the Oregon Cascades.  We would spend the next five days together camping out in the wilderness that lies at the [...]

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Destination Update (8/12/10)

Destination Updates

Here are this week’s travel destination stories on the Web: Ten Unknown European Places (The Sydney Morning Herald) Exploring An Ancient Siamese City (GoNOMAD.com) Normandy’s Quite Glamour (The New York Times) Victoria Day Trip: Butchart Gardens (Chris Around The World) Wining And Equining (Los Angeles Times) London’s Secret Gardens (The Washington Post) An Argentinean Gem [...]

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Destination Update (7/1/10)

Destination Updates

Here are this week’s travel destination stories on the Web: There Is (Food) “There” In Oakland (The New York Times) Money-Saving London Lodgings (GoNOMAD.com) “Off-Road” In Yosemite (San Francisco Chronicle) Henry James’ Assisi (The New York Times) Tying The Knot In Aloha Land (SFGate.com) London Restaurant Revolution (The Wall Street Journal) How To Order Ramen [...]

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Travel News Update (5/2/10) from Tales Told From The Road

Travel News Updates

Here are today’s travel and travel technology headlines with links to the stories on the Web: Banana Slug Glass And Other Art on B.C. Island (The Seattle Times) Off The Beaten Path On Mayne Island (The Seattle Times) The Unreal 49th U.S. State (The Oregonian) If You Just Say “No” To Body Scanning (Elliott.org)

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Eastern European Invasion

Trip Blog Posts

(Tuesday, September 23). As we discovered on a trip to Glacier National Park four years ago, American college students no longer staff all of the hospitality positions at U.S. National Park lodges during the summer. Most of these temporary hires come from countries that were considered our enemies before the fall of the Berlin Wall [...]

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Sunshine, Alright!

Trip Blog Posts

(Monday, September 23). The sun rose in a cloudless sky over the deep, deep blue waters of Crater Lake early this morning. But within two hours, clouds moved in threatening to shroud the lake with overcast as happened yesterday. Luckily for us and the rest of the tourists in the park, the clouds were soon [...]

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Pluses and Minuses

Trip Blog Posts

(Sunday, September 21). It’s been 10 years since was last drove through Crater Lake National Park (on our way to a lake near Bend, nearly due north from here), 16 years since we last stayed in the park, and 35 years since we bunked at the lodge on the rim. A lot has changed since [...]

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The Ayes Have It, But…..

Trip Blog Posts

(Thursday, September 18). “The Clay Cart” is billed as 2,000 year old romantic comedy from India with a “modern” feel and similarities to works of Will Shakespeare in that genre of playwriting. (Boy meets girl, boy loves girl, girl loves boy, they come from difference classes, forces of evil and duplicity try to keep them [...]

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The Play’s The Thing (And More)

Trip Blog Posts

Ashland’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival never fails to awe us with its high quality performances of plays by “The Bard’ and other famous (along with some “newly minted” not-so-famous-yet) playwrights. This year we’re returning to Ashland for four nights and three plays. While we often visit in mid-summer, this year we’ll be heading to Oregon in [...]

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