travel Archive

  • The Wish Tree

    Posted on September 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
    I had my five year old daughter with me and I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't get her very interested in the bronzes. Then we turned the corner and beheld the Wish Tree.

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  • Crash Test

    Posted on September 1, 2011 | 2 Comments
    The thought of any inexperienced driver in charge of a 4,000 pound machine makes me very nervous, but anticipating my own flesh-and-blood inexperienced driver sends me almost into a panic.

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  • Window to Utopia

    Posted on August 11, 2011 | 6 Comments
    What would heaven be like, for a teenager?

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  • Eat, Bray, Shove: Two Men’s Mimicry, Mockery and Mastication Across Northern England

    Posted on July 22, 2011 | 6 Comments
    What would you get if the producers of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” combined “My Dinner with Andre ” and “Easy Rider” with some salacious food porn thrown in? Why, you’d have British director Michael Winterbottom’s latest Steve Coogan  and Rob Brydon semi-improvised vehicle, “The Trip,” that’s […]

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  • Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

    Posted on May 9, 2011 | 6 Comments
    As we approached the wide junction of Avinguda  Diagonal and the street on which our hotel was located, I saw the spires of Sagrada Familia for the first time. The four spires that faced us towered among cranes, with words circling up to heaven in […]

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  • Parallel Journeys

    Posted on March 24, 2011 | 20 Comments
    By Claudia On my personal blog, I am known as “The Faithful Dissident.” For the past three years, I’ve been hiding behind that alias. Afraid of what, I’m not exactly sure, but some of my experiences during the past yearhave made me realize that I’m […]

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  • Mormon Mommy Meets Eat, Pray, Love

    Posted on March 14, 2011 | 9 Comments
    In the spirit of wayfaring, Ashley joins us today with the kind of travelogue I’d love to hear in testimony meeting.  I’m the one with my mouth open wide and feet sitting in a pool of flesh-sucking fish, what Southeast Asians term a “fish spa.” […]

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  • A Ride to Church – York

    Posted on February 20, 2011 | 19 Comments
    This morning I got in my ‘ride’ (a pair of size 11 Mizuno running shoes), and went to church. If you’ve read some of my other posts and comments around the site, you may have guessed that I don’t attend a church at the moment. […]

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  • Scenes from Europe

    Posted on October 27, 2010 | 7 Comments
    Alina Taylor took these photographs while travelling in France and Spain.

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