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- Trim and the Boyne River Valley
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... I’d ever seen. We landed in Dublin shortly after, at about ten in the morning. Much to my astonishment, it was cold and rainy. We ... in 1995 to film around town and the locals have been high about it ever since, kind of like your cousin who keeps re-telling the story of ...
Features - UllrichJames
- Biting a Pig
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... save a special lady. Recently, however, I've been thinking about the place where I grew up. Well, about eight hours south of where I grew up— Savannah . Somehow seeing ...
Blog entry - Nana Chen
- Phi Ta Khon, Festival of Life
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... she had insisted. We were immediately intrigued to hear about the colorful craziness of this annual festival, not well known among ... year. From Bangkok, we rode seven hours on a bus to Loei, about 520km away, and enlisted the help of a local driver to take us the ...
Features - SicilianoLaura
- Zoom Past Camels or Penguins
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... routes in life. Go to www.racingtheplanet.com and see about the upcoming Sahara Desert Race starting September 25, 2005. If that doesn’t strike your fancy, learn more about another of their desert races, including the Atacama Crossing in ...
Blog entry - Nana Chen
- Apple iPad perfect for travelers?
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... way we travel . To put it simply, the iPad is all about media consumption and not creation. It’ll be great for reading eBooks, ... within the OS is disappointing and raises questions about how useful this will be as a stand in for something like a netbook (a ...
Blog entry - virtualDavis
- Rustic Retreat
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... 1750, and was transformed into pastures and farmed for about a century. When the Gold Rush swept the country, many of these farmers ... me, it’s worth it! There’s a calm about this place that’s infectious. Maybe the spiritual vibrations, or all ...
Features - GilbertEvelyn
- In Search of the Holistic Vasectomy
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... a journalist, and I’m writing an article for a magazine about a doctor who I hear lives in Lugu. She has this…treatment, by which she ... in search of a myth. “Lots of people have strange ideas about we Mosuo people. Some come here looking for a good time, thinking that ...
Features - Joshua Samuel Brown
- Costa Rica: Witch's Rock Canopy Tour
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... with the safety gear, and will receive instructions about safety and how to do the canopy tour to avoid incidents. During the ... ravines. What a rush. The boys were naturals, now talking about building a "real" zip line when they get home... (Adventure Travel, ...
Blog entry - virtualDavis
- Gore-Tex, Ultrex, Super Microft-What's the Difference?
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... plain Polartec, Polartec 200 and Polartec 300? What about Gore-Tex versus Ultrex? Good grief! I’m getting a headache. Maybe ... The website provides a great deal of information about outdoor fabrics. Have fun. FAQ on outdoor fabrics: Commander® is ...
Blog entry - Nana Chen
- From Biathlon to Books at Lake Placid
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... by the local biathlon organization, and we know a little about the town. Lake Placid, of course, was home to the 1980 Winter Olympics. ... there are also two dog sled teams. I don’t know enough about dogs to know what kind they are—or if they are even “proper” sled ...
Features - Wayne Yang