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Iceland - Husavik- Wendy and Greg

From Antarctica to Iceland, Australia to Africa, I’ve visited six of the seven continents of the world.  (Update 11/17/2017:  I have been to all seven!)  I am not a wanderer, but a well-prepared explorer.  My eyes are open to the unique wonders of the world around me and as well

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Where am I now? August 2018

Right now, I am sitting in the living room of our harbor-view townhouse in Newport, Rhode Island, USA.  It’s in the mid-eighties (Fahrenheit) and the humidity is high.  The fan is whirring, the sea breezes are blowing through the living room window to the patio sliders in the back.  The

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Heart-stopping Moments of Light and Texture

Stirling Falls - Milford Sound, New Zealand

My heart races and I see bright flashes of color.  I briefly hold my breath and, with my eyes closed, slowly look around.  I am experiencing a flash-back.  It’s not deja-vu, although truly, I have already seen these visions already. I am remembering particular, individual moments from my recent travels

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Trekking through the jungle

Poison Dart Frog at Tortuga Lodge jungle, Tortuguero, Costa Rica

If the plains of the Serengeti weren’t enough, one year later we somehow found ourselves in the jungle lodge “Tortuga Lodge and Gardens” in Tortuguero, Costa Rica. All of my life I had feared the bugs and heat of the Central and South American jungles. As a child and tom-boy,

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Our Tropical Beach-front Cabaña

Greg at Ola cabana at La Vida de Ramiro, Tulum, Mexico

In 2014 we searched for the right Christmas vacation destination.  With a nine-day Christmas shutdown provided to me courtesy of Raytheon Co., each year we looked for a near-by destination which would give us that away-from-it-all feeling.  After our success in Belize, we focused on the Yucatan, Mexico.  We learned

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The Fes Medina

The Medina at Fes, Morocco

  As a teenager, I had read mystery novels of young women traveling the world, facing danger, solving the puzzles and rescuing their men.   Some novels were set in earlier years, during the time of the British Empire, in places to which I would never consider traveling now-a-days.  As a diabetic I

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The View of Machu Picchu

Wendy at Machu Picchu

Nestled in a saddle near the top of a mountain in the Peruvian Andes, Machu Picchu long represented for me an unattainable great wonder of the world.   Evidence of the great Incan empire, now rubble, causes me to question the permanence of our great civilization, and puts Inca into historical

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Traveling with Relatives who Photograph

Dave Kirkwood Photographer

  I’ll not mention the names, that they may remain anonymous. It’s really about a difference of goals. I travel because I want to see new things, generally natural things, such as Mountains, or Beaches.  I prefer them wide-open and  empty.  I could go so far as to say I like them

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