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Coastal California: Pigeon Point Lighthouse

  Officially called the Pigeon Point Light Station, it’s been my sentinel, standing at the edge of my personal territory, telling me I’m nearing, or leaving, my family on the coastside of the Bay Area, south of San Francisco.  I…

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Endangered tourist destinations around the World

Do you feel like getting lost in the backstreets of Venice, snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef or skiing in the Alps? If so, don’t hang around – tourist hordes have put these much-loved sites and many others at risk.   These places…

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Life on the Vltava: Where Gumbo Was (#49)

 Gumbo likes the idea that there are many places that look alike, and yet have some “feel” of their own that sets them apart.  Experienced travelers looked and placed it in several different locations…none of them bad guesses.

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A Park Grows in Brooklyn

Nearly 200 years ago, New York and Brooklyn, then separate cities and the greatest shipping centers on the East Coast, saw the land along the rivers—Hudson and East—begin to fill with docks, piers,  warehouses and freight traffic….

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Coastal California: Pigeon Point Lighthouse

  Officially called the Pigeon Point Light Station, it’s been my sentinel, standing at the edge of my personal territory, telling me I’m nearing, or leaving, my family on the coastside of the Bay Area, south of San Francisco.  I…

Read More

Life on the Vltava: Where Gumbo Was (#49)

 Gumbo likes the idea that there are many places that look alike, and yet have some “feel” of their own that sets them apart.  Experienced travelers looked and placed it in several different locations…none of them bad guesses.

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A Park Grows in Brooklyn

Nearly 200 years ago, New York and Brooklyn, then separate cities and the greatest shipping centers on the East Coast, saw the land along the rivers—Hudson and East—begin to fill with docks, piers,  warehouses and freight traffic….

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