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Pink flamingos in Kenya
Flamingos at Lake Nakuru in Kenya. After a few days at Kenya’s Shaba National Reserves, we moved on to Lake Nakuru National Park. This entailed a bone-rattling six-hour drive, although the first part...
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10 best ruins – famous and not-so-famous
Ancient ruins at Mesa Verde National Park. Everyone loves ancient ruins, don’t they? Yahoo! Travel recently compiled a list of 10 of the best ruins around the world and it included some of the usual...
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Literary pilgrimages
The Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris. If you’re a traveler who loves books and reading, there are any number of historic sites and interesting bookstores to add to your list of dream...
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Riel World photo – Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta
Albuquerque, New Mexico Balloons take to the sky at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
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The humor of badly translated signs
If you’ve traveled, then it’s no doubt happened to you. You stumble across a sign that causes you to do a double take or even to burst out laughing. The signs are always in tourist areas and the...
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Riel World photo – Penguins & sea lions in Argentina
Ushuaia, Argentina Penguins and sea lions lounge on an island in the Beagle Channel off the southern tip of South America, near Ushuaia, Argentina.
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Destinations for 2012
Milford Sound, New Zealand It’s that time of year, when major travel publications begin promoting lists of top destinations for the upcoming year. Lonely Planet has been particularly productive,...
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Christmas markets around the world
A view of the Prague Christmas market. Twinkling lights. The smell of Christmas pine trees. Artisanal holiday crafts. Gingerbread houses. Hot chocolate and mulled wine. And, of course, a chilly night...
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Wintry travel experiences
The Northern Lights. It’s winter. The snow, ice and cold currently draping the Northern Hemisphere may be great for skiing vacations, but not for very many other travel experiences. Or so you would...
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Riel World photo: How big are the Egyptian pyramids?
Pretty big, in case you were wondering. Here is a photo of Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza, which checks in at 480-feet and was the tallest structure in the world for several thousand years after it was...
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Birth of Democracy road trip
This is a road trip itinerary I put together a few years ago. It seems especially interesting at the moment, given that we have two major party political conventions taking place this week and next....
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Riel World photo – Shaba Reserve, Kenya
Shaba National Reserve, Kenya Looking back through some of my old travel photos … This pic was taken during an early morning game drive in Kenya when we spotted a solitary giraffe, shortly after dawn,...
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Seven intriguing attractions for baseball fans
The Louisville Slugger Museum O.K., so you love baseball and you’ve managed to attend games in some of the sport’s most hallowed and passionate venues – Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field,...
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Ghostwriting, Politics and Donald Trump
Since I follow politics closely and have also done some ghostwriting, I was intrigued to discover this recent story in the New Yorker in which Donald Trump’s ghostwriter for his best-selling book, The...
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Stephen King on Writing
Stephen King knows a thing or two about writing and he wrote a pretty good book on the subject. Open Culture published a piece that lists 20 of King’s rules for writers. A sampling: First write for...
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Hillary Clinton’s Forerunners
Hillary Clinton made no small amount of history in becoming the first female presidential nominee of a major political party. She is the first woman in the 240-year history of the United States to have...
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Seven magnificant stargazing destinations
Stargazing is something we do every day, almost without thinking about it, and yet it’s also one of the most transcendent experiences in the world, an activity that enables us to gaze into the reaches...
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Riel World photo – Sydney Opera House
Sydney, Australia The Sydney Opera House at sunset. I love the way the orange colors of dusk play off the angles of the Opera House.
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Riel World photo – Mt. Sinai, Egypt
Mt. Sinai, Egypt Two Bedouin men lead their camels down the mountainside. I took this photo as we trudged down the rocky trail on the way back to the village of St. Catherine’s after having hiked up...
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