Tag: travel
group name: onewordatatime
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January 19, 2007 04:32 AM EST --
Could it be in the travels of my mind
I will ever meet a parallel to my heart?
Could it be that somewhere along the way
I've passed a future never giving it a thought?
My sails have billowed . . . more
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January 08, 2008 04:27 AM EST --
There are pictures of me washing my jeans in a bucket. Let me tell you about that. We were told that a washer and dryer would be available for our use. When we arrived, . . . more
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March 11, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
It was the summer of '69 and I had flown home to Massachusetts from Alaska where I had been a Jesuit Volunteer. The previous winter I had spent at St. Mary's Mission as a high school . . . more
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January 03, 2008 03:35 PM EST --
Her white hair was softly curled.
She was about 5 feet tall, and bordering on frail.
As I watched her pass me, I wondered what her story was-I had several more hours before my plane boarded.
. . . more
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March 22, 2007 11:09 PM EDT --
Several weeks ago I commented on an article written by Cynthia about a commune in Austria. In the article she mentioned taking a steam bath and it brought back a flood of memories of my own cleansing . . . more
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June 30, 2008 09:56 PM EDT --
For over twenty years, Toronto was my home. I don't miss living there but I do miss my mom and closest friends who still live there. Every trip ends up being a whirlwind journey, a mash up of past, . . . more
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June 22, 2007 08:30 AM EDT --
There are three gas pumps on Alaska's Dalton Highway.
The first is a red gravity-fed fuel tank at a barebones wayside named HotSpot just north of the Yukon River. The second is 160 miles north . . . more
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July 20, 2007 11:37 PM EDT --
I moved close to the inner wall of the tent and watched Breedlove and the huge biker struggling. I hadn't heard so much grunting and groaning since the time I left my window open at . . . more
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September 17, 2006 12:04 AM EDT --
We went out for an hour's driving practice. It was Friday night. It seemed like it was just yesterday. It was. It went rather well for most of the drive. She drove down the 2 lane as dusk occurred. . . . more
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October 03, 2006 01:13 AM EDT --
There's a serious dilemma going on here in Shenzhen. It's caused by the crude driving abilities of the city's population. I've been an unfortunate witness to the problems of Chinese motion . . . more
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February 05, 2007 09:02 PM EST --
In late 1977, with the purpose of training to become a radio officer I joined the Merchant Navy College (in Greenhithe, Kent), the latter, no longer existent, having merged with the Thames Nautical Training . . . more
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September 03, 2007 08:13 AM EDT --
It was a great excuse for a holiday. My sister in law was turning 40 and family from around the world was travelling to the Sunshine Coast for a five day party. Before we left Sydney, . . . more
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April 02, 2007 03:58 AM EDT --
Well another year has rolled around and the week of the Master's has finally arrived at Augusta, Ga. Now you can probably find all the history you want about the tournament on the net and in the bookstores, . . . more
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October 16, 2006 03:19 PM EDT --
In the dark of night sweat poured from my sun burnt face. Being thrifty, I used the unfastened edge of my wedding sari as a towel. A ravening fire sped from the blacksmith's shop lighting the dirt . . . more
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March 18, 2007 09:48 AM EDT --
In June I received an email from my good friend Harry (Ann Harrington), my room-mate from the year I spent in a Jesuit mission in a Yu'pik community. She wrote that our fellow volunteer, Mary . . . more
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October 05, 2007 02:34 AM EDT --
Every foreigner living here needs a break from China every now and again. Most use the national holidays as excuses to get out of the mainland and into different locales. It was more than six months before . . . more
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November 24, 2007 07:06 AM EST --
The atrium of a hotel, India maybe, somewhere very hot.
Cool white marble, rivered with grey, the glass ceiling high above.
Groups of wicker chairs around glass top tables.
Tall, . . . more
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June 25, 2007 01:48 AM EDT --
Yesterday Papa and I attended the Flye Point Folk Festival on the grounds of the "Look-out", an old country inn in Brooklin, Maine. Last night I posted an article about the festival and . . . more
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August 07, 2007 07:54 PM EDT --
This summer, I, Ophelia discovered Kurt Vonnecut. You see, Mistress Elizabeth was embarrassed when Kurt died this Spring and everyone on Gather was paying tribute to this famous writer and she hadn't . . . more
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November 28, 2006 12:41 PM EST --
I’ve never been in the snow before. I have been where snow has fallen but never when it is falling or is freshly fallen, still a pristine white.
I looked out the hotel window last night and . . . more
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