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on journey: a whirlwind tour of waterfalls & civil war battlefields
In late March, my British friend Graham, who worked with me in Japan at Aoyama Gakuin University Sagamihara Campus, came for a visit. He was in New York visiting his (ex)-wife, and carved out some time...
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on journey: to, around and back from cambodia in 2011
A Tuesday morning in January, and I’m on my way from Hanoi to Phnom Penh. I have to be at the airport at 6:30 a.m. for an 8:30 flight on my favorite (not) airline: China Southern. The Hotel Ngocmai...
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on journey: morocco to rome
Marrakesh to Casablanca: I had arranged a car through G Adventures to take me from Marrakech to Casablanca for my flight to Rome. My driver, Mohammad, who surprisingly spoke mainly Spanish, arrived at...
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on journey: virginia to cincinnati on a “road trip to nowhere”
As I started my “Road Trip to Nowhere” on a Sunday morning in September, the sun peeked out from a wispy sky and “Time After Time” played from my Spotify playlist. I had 540 miles ahead of me. Passing...
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on journey: a long drive from fez to merzouga
Leaving Fez around 8:30, we had an 11-hour drive ahead through a hilly green rural area dotted with small villages, ruins, and mosques topped with minarets. Patches of yellow dandelions, yellow broom,...
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on journey: a drive from rome to la spezia
A driver arrived early to take me to Leonardo da Vinci Airport (at Fiumicino), so I said “Arrive derci” to the painted cat on The Beehive’s courtyard walls. courtyard at The Beehive I arrived at the...
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on journey: finding justice in cincinnati, ohio, and onward to springfield,...
I started out my morning in Cincinnati by visiting the William Howard Taft National Historic Site. This is the only memorial to the U.S.’s 27th president and 10th chief justice. William H. Taft...
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on journey: springfield to omaha (& a first encounter with the corps of...
When I left Springfield, Illinois, I drove on I-72 west under pale blue skies with wispy clouds. All around were tall cornstalks with shimmering tassels, and Lana del Ray sang “Get Free.” I was awed...
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on journey: an encounter with edward hopper on the way to charleston
It was a too-familiar drive from my home in Northern Virginia to Richmond, where I would spend the night with my daughter before we took off the next morning for Charleston, South Carolina. On I-95...
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on journey: watertown, south dakota to fargo, north dakota
After finishing my breakfast of scrambled eggs and sausage, I checked out of my hotel and went to downtown Watertown in dreary and chilly weather to walk around the downtown area. I found some enticing...
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