Three Great Day Trips by Ferry

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Sure, plenty of the world’s major cities have great boat tours.  Usually involving some sort of lunch or dinner, these mini-cruises taken in the sights and potentially the sounds of a city.  There’s nothing like the skyline from the water people say.  Me, I prefer full day trips by boat, places where a ferry takes [...]

What’s your favorite mode of travel?

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Planes, trains and automobiles.  Traveling requires some mode of transportation, even if it’s just your feet.   For 21 months we transported ourselves around the world. Let’s just say we became intimately aquainted with the semi-cama buses in South America, the back seat of a Land Rover throughout Africa and the upper bunk of trains [...]

Exploring in Your Own Backyard

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What do you do with out of town guests when they come to visit? The zoo?  A park? A historical attraction?  We all have the “tourist” locations in our own hometowns, usually it’s a place you never go to except when you have visitors.  When we lived in Washington, DC we became so tired of [...]

Alebrijes

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You may not recognize the name, but if you’ve been to Mexico you’ll likely recognize the brightly colored sculptures of fantasy animals and creatures.   First created in Mexico City by artist Pedro Linares, alebrijes can be made of paper mache, wood or even metal and are often creatures most associated with fantasy or dream-like [...]