Tag: nature
group name: adv-tourism
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June 29, 2007 08:22 PM EDT --
Starting the day off with a good photo opportunity makes for a good day.
Once again, the humidity and light clouds offered up yet another 'good morning' shot for me and the dogs. Add to . . . 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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October 20, 2007 09:45 PM EDT --
When I was a kid, I remember looking forward to watching the weekly program Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom . This show brought me into the world of animals in distant lands... at a distance. It . . . more
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July 08, 2007 04:56 PM EDT --
I'm a pretty good ‘be prepared' kind of guy and some of my knowledge was learned from making mistakes.
There is nothing I do better than driving. I love to take long drives to places . . . more
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June 14, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
Please join me in congratulating Barb W. for winning a copy of Pennsylvania Wilds: Images from the Allegheny National Forest. Barb won the book in the random drawing held this afternoon.
I only . . . more
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August 02, 2007 03:52 PM EDT --
Karen Blixen (1885 - 1962), is perhaps best known for her novel Out of Africa, the novel which the movie Out Of Africa starring Meryl Streep is based on.
Blixen was born in 1885, . . . 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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August 09, 2007 01:26 AM EDT --
We arrived at the port in Guilin shortly after breakfast. Zhong Yi, our Red Army soldier/driver/tour guide, handed us our tickets and explained to Jia that he?d meet us in Yangshuo.
I was . . . more
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December 16, 2007 02:33 PM EST --
Today had an interesting beginning.
I looked out the front window, and somebody had stolen our mountain!
It was almost as if there had never been one there!
Eerily, slowly, . . . more
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May 30, 2007 12:54 PM EDT --
The previous owners of my house planted tons of perennials and bushes. The most prolific plant by far is the cat mint (not the same thing as cat nip). I read somewhere that the idea of cat . . . more
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June 04, 2008 07:25 PM EDT --
This past Saturday, my husband Larry, daughter Tracy, pit bull Dakota, and I went to a new dog park in Lansing, Michigan. Lansing is our state capital and is an hour's drive from where we live. . . . more
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January 03, 2008 08:41 PM EST --
Waking up to beautiful, nearly cloudless blue skies, Carolyn and I noticed the amazing pattern of sky-travelers coming and going from Greensboro, NC.
Despite the fact that is was a bit chilly . . . more
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August 05, 2007 03:46 PM EDT --
Last Fall I went on a trip to Mexico. In fact, it's the 6th consecutive Fall that I found myself in Mexico.
This time I thought I'd make some photographs of birds that I don't usually see . . . more
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June 11, 2007 09:38 PM EDT --
But first you have to write about it.
Find yourself in the forest and tell us how you got there, what surprised you, and why you love the wilderness and you can win a signed copy of Pennsylvania Wilds: . . . more
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June 10, 2007 04:41 PM EDT --
In Bangsbo, an area on the outskirts of Frederikshavn, in Northern Jutland, Denmark is a place called the Bangsbo Museum.
The Bangsbo Museum has been created at the historical manor house . . . more
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September 08, 2007 02:25 PM EDT --
Once again, a rant has blossomed in my head, so I have to pass it on so others will benefit from it.
Perhaps you may have read the labels on what you buy and perhaps you're just a daredevil at heart. . . . more
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November 11, 2007 06:23 PM EST --
There’s something relaxing about lying in the sunlight as it comes in a window. Dogs are the most likely to find the good spots, first – then you have to somehow . . . more
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July 14, 2007 02:46 PM EDT --
Have a run-in with a raccoon? Forget your camp stove at home? Wake up to find your tent pitched in the middle of a trail and piss off a lot of hikers . . . wait, that happened to me.
Calling campers, . . . more
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July 17, 2007 09:19 AM EDT --
Great trip yesterday out to Stellwagen Bank, a National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Massachusetts. Every encounter with the whales is different. You simply can't tell from one hour to the next . . . more
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July 10, 2006 06:04 AM EDT --
As a forward to this article, I would like to say that my sister suggested this because it would reach more people as an article. My thanks to her for good advice!
I have been a motor-head since . . . more
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