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A Narrow Gauge Adventure - - Ron Kelley
The whole south end of town smells like yesteryear as the coal smoke and steam emanates a pungent air that engulfs me. I close my eyes and can only see the wooden buildings with their boardwalks echoing the sounds of boots melding in with the clop-clop of hoof beats. I can almost touch the livery... Submitted 3 days 17 hours ago.

Nuts Over Blackhawk Slide - Jack H. Schick
She thinks I'm nuts. She says I always have been. But, that's okay. I think she's nuts too. Our councelor doesn't say much about it. He just listens, jots down notes and occasionally professes, "It's all right. After 30 years together? It'll work out." I don't know why we keep paying him. He... Submitted 2 years 29 days ago.

Our Broken Asphalt Heart: Reflections on Route 66-Part 2 - - Malcolm Logan
Part 2: New Mexico to California A bright, enchanting New Mexico morning. I pull onto the interstate, old 66 running beside. The land slides and yaws like water in a bucket, waves of rolling terrain, an ocean of pale grass flecked with sagebrush and streaked with browns and reds. The mountains... Submitted 340 days 13 hours ago.

Key West Fantasy Fest Parade, Where Art is People - Gregory Lewis
Even as my blistered, sandaled feet were recovering from the long Key West walk on Friday evening, I decided to hit the Fantasy Fest parade, the grand finale. I parked my van at the parking area off Higgs Beach and bicycled the rest of the way to Duval St. I had a brutally technical paper to... Submitted 2 years 101 days ago.

A Woodstock Pilgrimage - Gregory Lewis
Origins Enter The Roundtable, a daily talk radio program on Albany National Public Radio affiliate WAMC. Host Susan Arbetter (no longer with the station) was speaking with an area columnist or district bureau correspondent about events and happenings in the Upstate region. Mention of something... Submitted 3 years 124 days ago.

Communism is Over Mate - Ieuan Dolby
Russian communism collapsed in 1991! It was the end of a wieldy instrument that had pried and delved deep into millions of lives; some citizens won from it but equally as many lost so much and were given so little in return. A prime example of the loss is now seen with the older... Submitted 5 years 100 days ago.

Archer City, Texas - - Octavia Hansen
There is nothing like Archer City, Texas. It's not just another small town, there's a feeling there -- a way of life. You will never just stumble across it, you have to be looking for it. Even in this day and age of GPS, you will be driving with one hand and have a map in the other. It's not near... Submitted 37 days 3 hours ago.

Death Valley Day Trip - - Octavia Hansen
Death Valley. Pretty aptly named. I saw it on the map and decided to go. Anytime I get a few days, it's time for a trip. Being the first of the year, since I don't drink or do drugs I'm wide awake on the morning when everyone else demands quiet and a hangover remedy. I'm a prepared gal, I... Submitted 38 days ago.

Hitchin’ a Ride, Hitchin’ a Ride - - Dave Potchak
“A thumb goes up, a car goes by Oh, won't somebody stop and help a guy? Hitchin' a ride, hitchin' a ride…” ( Vanity Fair, 1970) “Some stories might be better left untold” is a rough quote of an old adage that many of us have heard before. After all... Submitted 205 days 2 hours ago.

A Refreshing & Relaxing Trip To Digha - Chiradeep
In the first week of June 2011, this year we had an official tour to Digha, a place on the sea shore of Bay of Bengal on the east of West Bengal, India. It’s around 200 Kilometers away from Kolkata, the state capital of West Bengal, India. We went batch by batch to the lodge which was... Submitted 219 days 20 hours ago.

Athens at Christmas - Sara O'Rourke
I'm sipping on a very creamy cappuccino, with a stray cat tickling my ankles and the sun, burning at about twenty, shining on the side of my face. The day ahead, as I envision it, will consist of, roughly, taking a casual stroll up the mountains, hiking around, eating a bit of gelato here and... Submitted 1 year 48 days ago.

Cross'n Texas (I Remembered the Alamo) - Jack H. Schick
If you're crossing the country on Interstate 10, when you leave Louisiana and hit Orange, Texas you're threatened by a big sign: "El Paso 877 Miles". No matter how far you've already driven, it's breathtaking. It's heart wrenching. How can that be? That's further than New York to Chicago, or... Submitted 2 years 31 days ago.

A Coral Reef Adventure - Gregory Lewis
The finer value of experience is in its sharing. There is, of course, the intrinsic value of experience, which makes it important to our self. A particularly intrinsically valuable experience adds to our self-preservation repertoire. But, normally the enjoyment we derive from an experience is... Submitted 2 years 81 days ago.

All True Guide To Norway - Ben Morrish
An Englishman Abroad: Alltruism goes to Norway I have recently returned from a visit to Norway, the homeland of my viking girlfriend. It seems that Norway has changed somewhat since viking times (and for some reason the education about Norway that we get in the UK covers only... Submitted 2 years 350 days ago.

Key West New Year's - Gregory Lewis
There are worse things than being marooned in Key West on New Year's. Since I saw some of the debauchery on a Millenium television special in 2000, where a drag queen called Sushi was lowered from a balcony in a giant red slipper I longed to be at Key West on New Year's. Cutting out of work at... Submitted 3 years 40 days ago.

A Granny and I on a Virgin Train - Ieuan Dolby
This morning I pulled myself wearily onto a Virgin West Coast Train to work my way down to Ellesmere Port near Liverpool, suffused with cold and cough, frozen from the sudden onslaught of winter and sad to be leaving my wife and son back home. Five minutes into the journey I was back in usual... Submitted 3 years 59 days ago.

South Beach weekend - Gregory Lewis
Ocean Drive , Saturday, November 1. With the sun out from behind the clouds most of the day, the air is hot. The aquamarine sea pulses with whitecaps; swimmers and surfers bob on the surface like marooned coconuts. Every day is a new adventure in SoBe. I thought it might be hard to beat last... Submitted 3 years 100 days ago.

Art deco, entre - Gregory Lewis
The wind was fierce in the hill towns of Massachusetts at 4:00, Wednesday morning. The snow had pretty much stopping, leaving only a couple inches on the ground and a bitter chill in the black morning air. Albany, one-and-a-half hours away had escaped the snow storm that brought central New... Submitted 3 years 102 days ago.

Airline Delays: From A Child's Point of View - Barbara Clark
On my recent flight back from Iowa to New York, I sat on an airport runway in a small plane, along with 49 other passengers. There were at least two infants on the plane, plus several young children. Since it was the day after Christmas, most people had a lot of carry-on luggage and the... Submitted 4 years 42 days ago.

Discovering One of China's Hidden Gems - - Vinnie Apicella
While China’s two largest cities, Beijing and Shanghai, garner most of the attention for tourism and trade in the Mainland, a little known city geographically set between the two, remains virtually unknown to the outside world. Wuxi is found in the Jiangsu Province on the southeast coast and... Submitted 4 years 249 days ago.

Beliefs and Customs in Germany and Nepal - Satis Shroff
Whereas the older people in Asia pray the whole day and are in communion with God because the life-span in Asia is shorter, I had the impression here in Europe that the older generation are still living it up. You’re pensioned at 67 years in Germany and are still robust and not very old. This new... Submitted 4 years 274 days ago.

Thailand: an Extreme Travel Experience - Filipinos in Thailand - Hedda Tan
When Bangkok residents and those in neighboring provinces like Ayutthaya, Hua Hin and Ratchaburi were gearing up for the hottest season in Thailand, 6 young, adventurous Pinoys set out from Manila to fulfill part of their goal - to tour the whole of South East Asia. Their destination?... Submitted 4 years 289 days ago.

The 10 Worst American Cities to Drive in - Malcolm Logan
In my travels around the country I have experienced agonizing traffic, confusion, stupidity, and recklessness. But these ten hotbeds of vehicular misery top the list. In ascending order they are… #10 Cincinnati , OH There’s more to a hellish traffic experience than massive traffic... Submitted 1 year 47 days ago.

"The Spanish Sketch Book, or the 4 Amigos Go to Spain" © - - Arlene Wright-Correll
All watercolor paintings by Arlene Wright-Correll Inour old age, for the past several years, Carl and I have taken holidays with my brother, George and his wife Barbara. We have been all over the world and the American Southwest with them. We have seen wonderful things and have had great... Submitted 1 year 112 days ago.

Schwarzwald Chronicle: Triberg and Schönwald - Satis Shroff
Triberg, with its hamlets Nussbach and Grammelsbach, is a lovely spa-town and has the highest waterfalls in Germany, surrounded by wild and untamed nature. The town of Triberg is associated with four other townships: Schonach, Schönwald, Furtwangen and St. Georgen, and this area in the... Submitted 1 year 120 days ago.