Tag: Travel
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Winter Books Reviews – 2013
It seems no sooner did I resolve to post more often then the first week of the new year slipped away. Much is afoot here in the Sooner State. My family and I are planning a temporary relocation to New Zealand (more on that later) and it seems like the paperwork for our visa applications…
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Boston and Blue Skies, Smiling At Me
This post finds me sky high above the charming hamlet of Detroit, MI, which is yet further proof that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As with most Southwest Airlines flights, the aisles run six across and passengers are stuffed into their seats like fat sardines. However, one of the saving graces of…
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The View From the Top of the World
Some eleven years ago, Vanity Fair contributor Bryan Burrough wrote a lengthy, if not macabre, article about the disappearance of a pair of mountaineers who were attempting to become the first individuals to summit Mt. Everest. The two were an odd pair. The leader of the 1924 expedition was renown British mountaineer George Mallory, who was…
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A Dispatch from Taos
It’s a drop past 11AM here in Taos Pueblo. The temperature has languidly paced it’s way into the 50s. A cool breeze makes its way beneath the carport here at my Grandmother’s house. It’s mid-October, but wood stoves burn in the distance, and the smells of piñon waft through the air as it has done…
Pax Plena 