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Nepal, still in need

With the devastating earthquake, Nepal has been in the news. So much hardship has befallen that country since my visit long ago. I remember Nepal. I actually enjoyed the street vendors there. While I may or may not have purchased,

Posted in Travel Posts, Uncategorized

Pitcher Plants

Sabah.  At the Mesilau Nature Resort, I joined a walk in the forest. The forest was like a green and muddy sauna. We were given high rubber boots to walk through the mud and walking sticks so we would be less

Posted in Just for Fun

Niagara Falls

Watching the willing water splash over Niagara Falls was like watching someone having the best sled ride ever. And they did say someone went over the Falls in a barrel and survived the trip. But that didn’t sound like much

Posted in Thinking Travel

Kansas

Dorothy was from Kansas. Doesn’t everyone want to get there? Didn’t that “Kansas City” song from the musical, “Oklahoma,” make you even curious? November 2012. I arrived in Kansas City and spent a full morning at the wonderful Nelson-Atkins Art

Posted in Found in the USA

Edinburgh

I took a sleeper train from London that arrived in Edinburgh at six o’clock in the morning. Nothing was open. No coffee shop; no nothing. (The doughnut places in my hometown always opened at five o’clock in the morning so

Posted in World Glimpses