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Two Shades Of Boomer Travel

March 13, 2018 by

  Even when you go someplace you’ve never been, you’ll find shades of familiar.   It takes a special place, one filled with its own internal music, to make everything old feel new again.   The band in my brain cranked up in Barcelona, Spain when I saw the Gaudi church, La Sagrada Família.   […]

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MEXICO TRAVEL: PUERTO VALLARTA PERFECTION, pt3

January 14, 2018 by

    The top down view from the seventh floor in Old Vallarta, or Viejo Vallarta, to the square.   Is it Frida Kahlo’s turquoise house? It’s the right color.   If it part of the Kahlo catalogue, she’s got octopus on her self portrait.   But it’s not Frida. Not enough eyebrow.  

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MEXICO TRAVEL: PUERTO VALLARTA PERFECTION, pt2

January 13, 2018 by

    First thing you’ll need is a new hat. Pick one, maybe two.   Once you get into the swing of things you can adjust.   Not a hat person? You are now.

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MEXICO TRAVEL: PUERTO VALLARTA PERFECTION, pt1

January 12, 2018 by

    Where the heck is Puerto Vallarta? Find a good map book.   Look about two thousand miles south of Portland and you’re close.   West coast of Mexico below the Gulf of California.

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PORTLAND TIME, OREGON LINES: TIME TRAVEL IF YOU NEVER LEAVE

December 13, 2017 by

  Portland time changed from 1804 to 1904. Again from 1904 to 2004. To round things up, today is in the year 2017.   From Lewis and Clark in 1804 to the Lewis and Clark Expo in 1904, give or take, to Big Pink, the changes show.   On a calendar it measures here to […]

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TIME TRAVEL WITH GUITARS TUNED GOOD AND FIRM WOMEN

November 16, 2017 by

        Time travel with music happens every second of every day. A song comes across the waves and we’re back in the day we first heard it from the first beat onward.   Unfortunately I never hear the first song I ever played on a guitar.   Down In The Valley isn’t […]

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Travel Bans From History, Who Should Be Banned

November 2, 2017 by

    Travel bans tend to be specific in terms of where to go and where not to go.   Travel bans say one thing: Don’t go there, girlfriend. Stay away, pal.   Like a dress code in the NY disco dancing prime time of the late ’70’s, while punk rock was getting ready to […]

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Travel Education Fatigue Makes Well Rounded Snob

September 3, 2017 by

  The first time I heard an acquaintance talk about travel education I was impressed as hell. They made me want to do it, to go where they’d been. Then I heard it again, and again. And again. Has this happened to you, travel education fatigue? You need to fight through it.

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BAD TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY SECRETS REVEALED

April 17, 2017 by

Find the right cluster of furniture piled behind a steel fence. If it carries an association with a famous author, all the better. Frame it in and push the button. All done, right? Photography secrets are in plain sight in this example. The fence distorts the view. The frame’s too small to read anything. It […]

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TRAVEL ENGLAND WITH FOREVER YOUNG MILLENNIALS

April 3, 2017 by

  Aging in travel England Some moments remain frozen in time for better or worse. Remember when you missed middle school graduation and summer football workouts? Your parents decided to drag you around England instead. And your life was ruined. That last thing you wanted to do was be a show pony for your folks. […]

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