Tag: adventure
group name: adv-tourism
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May 15, 2007 10:29 PM EDT --
Tehran's Mehrabad Airport is a cheerless backwater, especially at four in the morning, after enduring a 10-hour flight to Amsterdam, a nine-hour delay, followed by the six-hour flight to Tehran. . . . more
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November 15, 2007 06:09 PM EST --
Coming up on the last leg of the cruise, the magnificence of the scenery during the late season resonates in my mind. What a vivid and lasting impression the beauty Mother Nature provides. . . . more
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December 26, 2007 03:33 PM EST --
Baking peppermint bonbon cookies can give me such delight during the holiday season. However, my mind can sometimes be on another continent, as I think about what will be coming in two months. . . . more
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July 17, 2008 02:06 AM EDT --
The sun shines all morning.
But then, the barometer plummets, all motion, movement is sucked from the air.
The wind stops.
All is still but the clouds above swirl, growing dark, angry as . . . more
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October 25, 2007 08:17 PM EDT --
22 nd October 2007
Waiting to go Home – Eímear’s Story
What if one day hundreds of years later you’re sitting in an airport waiting to go home. How would you feel? . . . more
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February 21, 2008 03:31 AM EST --
The sights and sounds of South America are scintillating, and it's been an amazing journey so far. We began our adventure in Santos where many of us arrived after an overnight flight. It is wonderful . . . more
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February 24, 2008 04:30 PM EST --
Many people celebrated Monday, February 18 th as President's Day with a much-deserved day off and a chance to enjoy a three-day weekend. However, those of us onboard Splendour of the Seas on the . . . more
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January 24, 2008 03:47 PM EST --
Rounding the Cape as spectacular as it will be, our travels continue onward into the Southern most points of the continent. By this time in our trip, the scenery should remind us a lot of . . . more
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April 07, 2008 12:27 PM EDT --
May 3, 2008 , over 1,000 Crown & Anchor Society members will join us on a wonderful trip to the islands of Hawaii . Most will begin the trip in San Diego and catch a transfer to Ensenada . . . more
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July 16, 2008 03:13 AM EDT --
Just had to write up another quick post. You know, life is just strange. Perhaps I am semi-charmed. For years and years all I can remember is that I wanted to live somewhere and learn Chinese. I wanted . . . more
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July 16, 2008 08:31 AM EDT --
The future doesn't happen in America any more. I can confirm it. I'm sitting on a sidewalk browsing the internet via a free municipal wireless network. There was also an extensive free network . . . more
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July 19, 2008 05:43 AM EDT --
I'll have some more photos later today or tomorrow when I get some bandwidth to upload them.
But for now this one will have to do.
I assume she is Malay. She's waiting for the . . . more
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May 13, 2008 01:12 AM EDT --
Why won't she listen to me?
"Sweetpea, NO, NO, NO, don't go down there!"
Down she goes. Now her left hind leg is stuck in a bog-like substance next to a sulphuric smelling stream . . . more
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July 23, 2007 04:57 PM EDT --
Even if you think you know Mexico, I guarantee there is magic to be discovered in this book. I find myself at the end of reading Mexican Days by Tony Cohan with a slip of paper filled with notes of things . . . more
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September 13, 2007 07:05 AM EDT --
Setting course with but a naked eye on the stars, their ancestors paddled and sailed their wakas, huge war canoes, thousands of miles from southern Asia. Over the centuries they passed through the Indonesian . . . more
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April 20, 2008 01:42 PM EDT --
Our first days of our vacation on the ship will be full of shipboard and Crown & Anchor Society activities. Visions of sugar cane fields, tropical flowers, fresh pinapple and macadamia . . . more
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July 17, 2008 07:14 AM EDT --
Canuck asked me some pretty pointed questions and I felt obligated to reply. (Please read the link for more context, and also this post too. )
Of course, I can't answer all of them as I haven't . . . more
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July 19, 2008 11:53 PM EDT --
It's been a nice, lazy Sunday. Haven't really done much. Walked around a bit, did some writing, some blogging--as you can no doubt tell--and a smidgen of reading. One of the things I . . . more
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April 06, 2008 09:01 PM EDT --
Please note: sorry the photos aren't the best but they were taken with a point and shoot film camera (Cannon Elph).
In 2003 my husband and . . . more
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April 10, 2008 07:20 PM EDT --
Looks like I messed up the link to Part 1. Here it is again http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977303479&nav=Namespace . . . more
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