November 26, 2013

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It's been 15 months since my last post on this travel blog, and I'm just checking in to let folks know that the blog is still on vac...
August 29, 2012

Blog on vacation

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I haven't posted since spring and have been meaning to officially let readers know I'm giving this blog a vacation. I've enjoy...
April 11, 2012

Surviving Costa Rica

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My sister's going to Costa Rica over her daughter's April school vacation. Whenever anyone in my family contemplates a trip they ask...
March 25, 2012

Leaving Nashville

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After some 20 years in Nashville, my dear friend Rhonda is returning to New England. Rhonda and her husband, Charlie, left Boston to follow ...
March 10, 2012

Power to transport

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I love when mid-afternoon sun floods through my living room bay windows, lighting my eclectic collection of colorful curios from around the...
February 10, 2012

More bites of the Big Apple

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New York is, hands down, my favorite city in the world. I was born in Brooklyn, so I feel the city in my bones, but even without roots and h...
January 24, 2012

My travel bucket list (and lots of links)

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I feel blessed to have seen much of the world. My store of travel memories is so rich that if my traveling days ended today I'd be conte...
January 19, 2012

Travel List Challenge challenged, or, how'd Anne Pippy Longstockin Lewis get into Mecca?

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Maybe you've seen the Travel List Challenge app on Facebook: 100 places deemed by the app's marketing team to be cool, important o...
January 05, 2012

Happy 2012, Ribbons of Highway

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Hard to believe I've been blogging here since 2004. Five hundred and fifty-two posts: hundreds of travel stories about scores of countri...
December 22, 2011

The annual Jose Feliciano post

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Longtime readers, you've seen this one before. This time of year, some folks retell Dickens's A Christmas Carol or Moore's ...
December 09, 2011

Red Bull revisited

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Adam's about to finish his penultimate college semester. Finals are underway, and campus angst and sleep deprivation levels are high. Ad...
November 17, 2011

Dreams and weavers

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Driving to our New Hampshire place recently, I passed a gift shop near Fitzwilliam, NH that sold Native American crafts and spiritual items...
November 12, 2011

Cathedral of Trees

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I'm blessed to live in a town with an abundance of green space where people walk, hike, relax, reflect or, in my case, run. I took adva...
November 01, 2011

Talk about a captive audience

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I was dismayed to find, on a recent US Airways flight across the United States, that all the tray tables in economy had been turned into fly...
October 26, 2011

Makes me wonder how well the planes are maintained...

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I flew out of Boston's Logan Airport last weekend. The trip got off to an inauspicious start when I got into an elevator in Terminal B a...
October 25, 2011

Adam Belanger: He's going places

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My son Adam will graduate from college in May, and he's already begun his job search -- no flies on this kid. Allow me to hijack my blog...
September 28, 2011

Park it

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Wherever I travel, I seek out parks. They're places to rest between sightseeing sorties, eat the lunch food in your backpack, and, espec...