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Signs of the Times, and Smiles

    One of the pleasures of traveling is finding the odd bit that makes you smile or makes you wonder. Often enough, it’s in the form of a sign that may make perfect sense where it is, but looks odd to someone from another language or…

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Where in the World is Gumbo? # 8.8

Kudos to WorkerBee for doing the hard work of figuring out WITW 8.5, and for sharing his clear logic with us in his comment.  Gumbo is finding it harder and harder to stay ahead of the travel sleuths in our membership, but may have found a place…

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Where in the World is Gumbo? #8.5

 Gumbo pauses occasionally to visit a church, and was charmed by this one, less grand than most of the most-visited. As usual, no prize but praise to the first to guess where this one is and name it. In addition to that honor, the winner and…

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Where in the World is Gumbo? #8

Here’s this week’s TravelGumbo photo puzzle: Can you tell us where it is? And no, it does NOT belong to a Mary Kay Cosmetic salesperson. The answer will appear on Tuesday, Jan. 7…and if everyone is stuck, there may be hints before then. So jump…

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Happy New Year!

 2014 has arrived most everywhere in the world!  Time to celebrate!   We wish you all a wonderful and exciting year!  May it be filled with happiness, good health and wonderful travel experiences! The GumboGurus …

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Where in the World is Gumbo? 7.8 update

 There have been some highly educated guesses as to what and where Gumbo is, although they are not quite on the mark yet.  I think with these new clues we’ll get this wrapped up and solved by Thursday. A slightly different view of the…

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Where in the World is Gumbo? 7.8

   The last WITWs were solved so quickly it left my head spinning.  So I thought I’d close out the year with what I consider a challenging one. This is a two part quiz:1)  What is Gumbo looking at?2)  Where in the world…

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Where in the World is Gumbo? 7.5

Quickly and mercilessly, WorkerBee nailed 7.0 right out of the box, sinking in the nail with one blow of his intellectual hammer (as did one of our Twitter followers, @emattice, although he did not post a comment).   Solution to…

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Merry Christmas from all of us at TravelGumbo

  We are among the luckiest people in the World!  We live in a free land and have enough of everything (even some money to travel and explore with!)  And we’ve managed to put together a website that you, our fellow travel enthusiasts,…

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Where in the World is Gumbo? #7.0

Try your hand at this week’s picture puzzles.  Our regulars will know that each week we’ll present a picture from our collection, without the usual description that goes with our Picture of the Day.  Remember, your answers need to be…

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Signs of the Times, and Smiles

    One of the pleasures of traveling is finding the odd bit that makes you smile or makes you wonder. Often enough, it’s in the form of a sign that may make perfect sense where it is, but looks odd to someone from another language or…

Read More

Where in the World is Gumbo? # 8.8

Kudos to WorkerBee for doing the hard work of figuring out WITW 8.5, and for sharing his clear logic with us in his comment.  Gumbo is finding it harder and harder to stay ahead of the travel sleuths in our membership, but may have found a place…

Read More

Where in the World is Gumbo? #8.5

 Gumbo pauses occasionally to visit a church, and was charmed by this one, less grand than most of the most-visited. As usual, no prize but praise to the first to guess where this one is and name it. In addition to that honor, the winner and…

Read More

Where in the World is Gumbo? #8

Here’s this week’s TravelGumbo photo puzzle: Can you tell us where it is? And no, it does NOT belong to a Mary Kay Cosmetic salesperson. The answer will appear on Tuesday, Jan. 7…and if everyone is stuck, there may be hints before then. So jump…

Read More

Happy New Year!

 2014 has arrived most everywhere in the world!  Time to celebrate!   We wish you all a wonderful and exciting year!  May it be filled with happiness, good health and wonderful travel experiences! The GumboGurus …

Read More

Where in the World is Gumbo? 7.8 update

 There have been some highly educated guesses as to what and where Gumbo is, although they are not quite on the mark yet.  I think with these new clues we’ll get this wrapped up and solved by Thursday. A slightly different view of the…

Read More

Where in the World is Gumbo? 7.8

   The last WITWs were solved so quickly it left my head spinning.  So I thought I’d close out the year with what I consider a challenging one. This is a two part quiz:1)  What is Gumbo looking at?2)  Where in the world…

Read More

Where in the World is Gumbo? 7.5

Quickly and mercilessly, WorkerBee nailed 7.0 right out of the box, sinking in the nail with one blow of his intellectual hammer (as did one of our Twitter followers, @emattice, although he did not post a comment).   Solution to…

Read More

Merry Christmas from all of us at TravelGumbo

  We are among the luckiest people in the World!  We live in a free land and have enough of everything (even some money to travel and explore with!)  And we’ve managed to put together a website that you, our fellow travel enthusiasts,…

Read More

Where in the World is Gumbo? #7.0

Try your hand at this week’s picture puzzles.  Our regulars will know that each week we’ll present a picture from our collection, without the usual description that goes with our Picture of the Day.  Remember, your answers need to be…

Read More