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Adventures in New Orleans and the French Quarter:

8 December 2009

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Adventures in New Orleans and the French Quarter:

Adventures in New Orleans and the French Quarter: It was a stop off in NOLA on a road trip to Texas: We can drive for miles and miles, we can drive for miles and miles, we can drive for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles. la la la. Well that is what [...]

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Camping adventures at Galveston Beach

8 December 2009

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Camping adventures at Galveston Beach

Camping and adventures at Galveston Beach. After our brief visit to San Antonio Texas for a friends wedding, we buzzed out of there on I-10 making our way to Galveston Beach for our evening stop over. After about 2 hours out of Houston I-10 came to a crawl. After finding that it was not going [...]

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A brief visit to San Antonio Texas

8 December 2009

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A brief visit to San Antonio Texas We joked, if we ran into the Knights who say Ni and they demand a shrubbery we could give em Texas as there are so many leagues of them there. Yes, its a big and boring drive to San Antonio. We were racing the sun as we buzzed [...]

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Orleans France Backpacking Adventures

30 January 2009

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A Day and Night in Orleans France, City of Joan of Arc Well I caught the train to Orleans France from Paris. It took a bit of research , but I found that the train departs out of Paris from the Gare d Austerlitz station. I was learning a few words of French every few [...]

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Montepulciano Tuscany

10 August 2008

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Montepulciano Tuscany Wanderlust in Wonderland. A train ride from Roma got us to the station in the town neighboring Montepulciano (our destination). Montepulciano is a small, medieval town sitting on a mountain-top overlooking incredible views of the Tuscan valley below. We meandered-about awhile looking for a way to get up the mountain. We even started [...]

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Rome Italy Adventures

12 February 2008

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Roma Italy: Adventures Grand a Silly Dance and Magical Tales of Sweet Romance There is no main center of magic in Roma, though it is a land of many centers and much magic. Was magic echoed through the cobble-stone streets long trodden by people both great and simple? Yes! Was it in the people, going [...]

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Backpacking Firenze -Florence Italy-

12 February 2008

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The Wanderlusting Cinder Boy and the Grand Ball of Firenze (Florence Italy) Rested up with the wines and flavors of the Montepulciano wonderland we were all mentally prepared for our attack on Firenze. So there we stood awaiting that faerie God Mother’s Magic that would get us from the small Tuscan hill town to Firenze [...]

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