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The Lure of Lewis and Clark – A River Boating Adventure

Feb 01, 2008 05:14PM ● By Don Kindred

In June 2008, my wife, Diane, and I enjoyed a weeklong riverboat tour of the Columbia and Snake Rivers. The main stage event was Lewis and Clark’s extraordinary expedition, lasting from 1803 to 1806.

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Six Magnificent National Parks

Nov 01, 2007 05:42PM ● By Don Kindred

Vantage Travel’s 16-day adventuresome tour of Yellowstone, the Tetons, Arches, Grand Canyon, Bryce and Zion National Parks delivered exactly what was promised in its brochures and on its website: great accommodations, comfortable transportation and delicious meals, as well as incomparable scenery, and then some.

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Searching for Sloth in all the right places

Nov 01, 2007 05:40PM ● By Don Kindred

“This is cool,” I said to no one in particular, as marble-sized sweat poured down all four of my cheeks, “but I do hope he’s got a GPS to get us back to the river.”

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Reunion Ringmaster

Aug 01, 2007 09:13PM ● By Don Kindred

There are crowds everywhere for Mexico’s Independence Day. I knew that it was sheer folly to assemble family members in one place and try to please them all. There would be the star attractions, in-laws (or outlaws, as they are known within the family), adult children, teens and various family wannabees, all with their food preferences and aptitude, or not, for playing well with others.

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Exchanging Education in a Sister City

May 29, 2007 09:36PM ● By Don Kindred

A wild monkey in Gibralter.The flag of red and yellow waves from the top of every building and the streets are covered with cobblestones that have been trampled for hundreds of years by both horses and men.

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Where the Hell is Healdsburg?

Apr 29, 2007 10:04PM ● By Don Kindred

The title was the response of the first person I mentioned my travel plans to...

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Two Itchy Feet One Ticket to GO

Feb 02, 2007 10:39PM ● By Don Kindred

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step...Lao Tzu It’s happening again - that old familiar tingling in your soles while your tortured soul yearns to escape the mundane, everyday life.

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FOOD ON THE FLY (not flies on your food...)

Nov 30, 2006 10:49PM ● By Don Kindred

Olives from Alexandria, Egzypt.You’ll have to admit not every meal can be appetizing when you don’t really know what it is, especially when you are far away from home. Unappealing, questionable and monotonous fare can ruin a trip, but what to do when everything seems so very foreign and alien to your taste?

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Spanning the Globe

Nov 30, 2006 10:47PM ● By Don Kindred

The North Pole.Move over Admiral Peary, Captain Cook, and Admiral Byrd. We’ve got a San Clemente explorer who’s traveled from South Pole to North Pole. Four years ago, local resident Bob Harner visited Antarctica, known as the “…coldest, driest, and wildest place on earth.”

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Katrina - The Struggle to Bring Hope

Nov 30, 2006 10:38PM ● By Don Kindred

The FEMA ‘Trailer of Hope’. As we live and thrive in the hills of San Clemente, it is easy to forget what a monster our sea can be. The Asian tsunami catastrophes were an ocean away from Southern California.

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