Category: United Kingdom
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2010 Journal – Chapter 11
Edinburgh, Scotland was by far the most unexpected wonder I had ever experienced. I had seen photos of Edinburgh, but I never expected to make it out of a train station and be confronted with the most epic city I have ever seen. Even to this day I don’t know of another city that has…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 10
Framlingham Castle and York Wednesday April 28th 2010Norfolk day twoand York on the fly! Yesterday was my last day in the lovely little town of Diss in Norfolk. The Flynn’s took me out to see Framlingham Castle in the area south of Norwich, Suffolk. The castle is really more the ruins because the whole inner…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 9
April 27th, 2010Diss, England I have now left the city and I’m making my loop of the main land U.K.. This is of course due to the volcanic ash cloud that left me in Germany about a week longer than planned, however I feel extremely happy about what I did see there. Thus, I have…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 8
First bite of LondonApril 25th 2010London, England Yesterday (Saturday) morning was my last few hours of Stuttgart, Germany. Which I was actually a little sad to leave, I had grown quite fond of the small city and the lovely Godwin-Butlers. So it was a little sad to leave but I knew that I just have…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 1
I had a lot of free time 10 years ago. I was single. I worked full time in a fossil shop. I lived at home. While I “took care of myself” paying for gas, nights out, and much of my food, I didn’t know what all adulthood entailed. The fossil shop got minimal foot traffic…
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Over Tourism in Wild Places
While we had started the day as one of maybe three or four boats in the canal system doing tours, numbers quickly increased about an hour and a half into the tour. Not only did the additional boats make the canal more crowded, but larger groups of snorkelers, with what seemed like less instruction, swarmed…
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Day Trips – to go or not to go?
There are times in life where preconceived notions have to be put to the test and nothing has challenged me more than the subject of day trips (in regards to travel anyway). Well before I started venturing into the world on my own I had in my head that the best way to travel was…
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Wandering Relatives
Sometimes it feels like a cliché to say such and such thing or personality or idea is in “one’s blood”. At times this attitude has been used for a variety of horrific crimes on humanity. It’s been justified to cause pain and harm, promote superiority, or enhance nationalistic nonsense. I’m cautious to say anything is…
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Take Time to Enjoy Travel
I see this same scenarios time after time in my job: My client wants to travel overseas and check off some places on their bucket list. They have one week, three kids, and they want to cram as much culture in their little brains as they possibly can. They want to see ALL of Italy…
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Planning for the Unknown
… because in our world of instant gratification people don’t always understand that other parts of the world have more layers to their exploration.