Tag: travel
group name: famiilyhistory
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June 21, 2006 06:26 PM EDT --
As you look down from the hillside onto the apparent perfection of Malta's Blue Lagoon, you struggle to imagine it in any other condition. Land embraces lagoon like a protective parent. Water shines . . . more
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July 29, 2006 10:18 AM EDT --
My first experience with the shortfalls of academia.
It was May 5, 1961 and I was in elementary school.
Alan Sheppard sat atop a Redstone Rocket in what was then Cape Canaveral, Florida. I was in Port . . . more
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June 27, 2006 12:50 PM EDT --
When I was three years old, my parents and I made a cross-country automobile trip in our brand new 1953 Chevrolet sedan, from the San Francisco Bay Area to the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York. . . . more
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October 29, 2006 02:20 PM EST --
We were too old, flat chested, and boring to be real Girls Gone Wild, even if we had wanted. Besides, this happened in the days when college students, not under-chaperoned high schoolers, comprised . . . more
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November 01, 2006 11:46 PM EST --
(Day One Here)
It was close to five by the time we exhausted decent choices and found a vacancy in what could have been (with a few updates) the Bates Motel, convinced the drunk behind the counter to . . . more
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November 24, 2006 03:23 PM EST --
The water is cloudy with silt as the river is pulled into the sea by the morning tide. Salty air, heavy with the scent of maritime life, stings my face. The sky . . . more
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July 29, 2007 08:49 PM EDT --
Janie and I went to only one yard sale this weekend, on our way back from Chicago, and there wasn't anything worth buying or taking pictures of, so what we have are picutures of, yes, you guessed it. . . . more
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September 24, 2006 07:01 PM EDT --
I spotted this last week.
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June 22, 2006 08:52 PM EDT --
My article "A Bunch of Rocks: The Environmental Gutting of Malta", which I posted yesterday (June 21), has been selected as Editors' Choice and will appear on the Gather home page starting . . . more
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August 07, 2006 08:41 PM EDT --
When last we saw our hero, Ormond Bad Bob, (and if you haven't seen part one click on the link or this won't make much sense...), we were leaving St. Augustine Florida in the afternoon headed . . . more
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November 22, 2006 06:01 PM EST --
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Sherry and Karen perched on the bed with mirrors and cosmetics bags, prepared for another big day of soap operas and beauty treatments. Rhonda angled the television screen . . . more
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June 28, 2007 11:22 PM EDT --
I’m a terrible planner. Organizing events has never been a strong point. When my children were little, even their simple birthday parties with neighborhood playmates flummoxed me. Should we play . . . more
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August 21, 2006 03:37 AM EDT --
When I lived in the area, this was one of the first places I visited. It's beautiful. The area, George Washinton's plantation & home.
Visiting gives you a whole new perspective on . . . more
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August 27, 2006 04:54 AM EDT --
Preserving and Proving your Identity and worth in an emergency.The Importance of Storing Documents in your 72 Hour Supplies
There are four areas of documents that you should consider when planning your . . . more
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December 29, 2006 02:10 PM EST --
After a day at the beach. We walk back to the cabin. We all started runnning up the stairs to be the first one in the crawl foot bath tub. It was one of those small ones. If you were tall, . . . more
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December 31, 2006 08:38 AM EST --
Us kids wake up to the smell of bacon and eggs. We all rush to the bathroom. I was never pushy, so i let my brother and sister fight over it. Of course my brother won. Then my sister went and then me. . . . more
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August 17, 2006 07:55 PM EDT --
My sacred places are many, one is a Mangrove hidden rumrunners camp, now fallen to splinters that I played in as a young boy.
Another is a gully in Red Rocks State Park outside Las Vegas where I felt . . . more
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May 16, 2007 08:39 PM EDT --
I discovered my husband at a garage sale, wedged between a stack of old books and a crate piled high with used Tupperware®. His eyes caught mine as he burped the plastic storage containers, one by . . . more
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August 13, 2007 03:43 PM EDT --
(They're not REALLY twins, though it sounds good! They call themselves the Dawgs. They are 18- and 20-year-old brothers (my sons) riding the Amtrak and ViaRail on 1-month North American railpasses...the . . . more
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August 27, 2006 04:39 AM EDT --
Be Prepared!
Be Prepared. We have been told to do so time and again. Government officials continue to warn us of their inability to respond to everyone's needs in an emergency situation, church leaders . . . more
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