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- Next Stop: São Paulo
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... a transportation culture shock, and all my prideful wisdom about traffic and public transportation became useless. Traffic never seems ... proceed to the back of the bus. After hearing so much about muggings in Brazil, I always kept my backpack close to my chest while ...
Features - LeeMelody
- Ski Bliss in Avalanche Country
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... two nights at the A. O. Wheeler Hut, a rustic log cabin about half an hour from the road." Of course this is after a day of ...
Blog entry - virtualDavis
- Daring Dives in the Riviera
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... past every stereotype imaginable: European men strutting about in skin tight Speedos, topless sunbathers and small children splashing in the nude; everything you’d ever heard about the French Riviera comes to life in a half-mile stretch of sand. We were ...
Features - WensinkPatrick
- Around-the-World Travel Adventure Competition
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... this year. It is truly a global event and we are excited about the competition attracting sponsors like Eagle Creek and Lonely ... what The Global Scavenger Hunt™ annual event is all about, trusting strangers in strange lands.†Teams competing in 3rd ...
Blog entry - virtualDavis
- Discovering Italy's Wine Towns
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... the basement, but the host had seemed pretty enthusiastic about it. Below the restaurant was a cave containing Etruscan ruins. Although the pieces of pottery scattered about in the small cave's alcoves were not especially remarkable, we were ...
Features - DiDioNancy J.
- Exploring Italy by Train
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... my husband Fred and I became infatuated with everything about this charming country of Fred’s ancestry. We have revisited ... through Italy. However, there was something adventurous about the image, so I agreed. Packing lightly for our two week trip was a ...
Features - DiDioNancy J.
- Paris for Halloween?
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I've been living back in the United States now for about the same about of time I lived in the City of Lights. Lately, something's been ...
Blog entry - virtualDavis
- The Road to Pakistan
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... takes two days, covers a distance of 317 miles, and costs about 30 US dollars. My bus is scheduled to leave this morning. To make sure ... me the window seat. The bus begins to move. We go about a half-mile and stop. It is the Chinese customs checkpoint. Everyone and ...
Features - IkezoyeVance
- The Japanese Nozawa Fire Festival
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... at Shindai University. The bus, filled to capacity, took about an hour to wind its way up to Nozawa. It had been clear in Nagano when we ... between the pylons. Way up on the mushroom cap were about twenty men in blue and white coats. Around the bottom of the pylons were ...
Features - MatzkeJoyce
- Monterey, Carmel and Pebble Beach
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... Highway 101 and headed south-ish. We've both often talked about about our fond memories of Big Sur, so we figured that it would be a good goal ...
Blog entry - virtualDavis