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Showing posts with label #travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #travel. Show all posts
Monday, August 7, 2017

no rules, no fences, no referees

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Recently I tweeted an article I wrote about the Old West. Many people have weighed in on what the American frontier was really about. I thi...
Monday, October 31, 2016

House of Corn, Stone Presidents, and a Sioux Triumph

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Mitchell Corn Palace We recently moved from Arizona to Omaha and are still getting to know the neighborhood. Friends—and sometime relat...
Friday, August 5, 2016

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles—A Travel Memoir

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                    "And by the way, you know, when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea - have a P...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Back From a Fun Trip to Peru

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My wife's photo of Machu Picchu I like traveling to places my wife and I both enjoy. She loves history and art, while I prefer to s...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

Celebrating a Birthday in Gardnerville, Nevada

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Historic U.S. Route 395 For my birthday we ran up from San Diego to Gardnerville, Nevada. We stopped overnight in Santa Clarita to pi...
Monday, February 1, 2016

Wells Fargo 1880 Rules for Stagecoach Passengers ... And a Few of My Own

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Still From John Ford's Stagecoach In the Old West, stage travel took patience and stamina. Wells Fargo published a set of rules f...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

What makes a hero —Character or Activity?

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Hondo by Louis L'Amour In 1949, Joseph Campbell published The Hero with a Thousand Faces . Campbell studied myths and stories dow...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

The More Things Change ...

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I moved to Omaha last year, so I found this 1877 article from the Omaha Herald interesting. For those who loath TSA, tiny seats,...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Looking for a Father's Day gift?

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The best gift is a vacation … and the least expensive vacation is a book. A novel effortlessly transports the reader to another place and t...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Idle Away!

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Okay, this is what I do while waiting for other people to put the finishing touches on Jenny's Revenge . The new Steve Dancy is coming ...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Birthdays Used to be Fun

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Arthur: “Do you want anything?” Hobson: “I want to be younger.” Today is my birthday. My present is a trip to Hawaii to surf in calm...
Monday, February 23, 2015

Ski Slopes and Ghosts Galore

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I just returned from a week of skiing at Heavenly overlooking Lake Tahoe. Judging by the price of lift tickets, there’s gold on them th...
Monday, February 16, 2015

To Each His Own

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Some author’s dread poor  reviews from  readers. I like to hear what readers think and find I learn more from critical reviews. Besides, wh...
Monday, January 19, 2015

Escape from Death Valley

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Death Valley is the hottest place on earth. The valley has amiable place names like Dead Man’s Pass, Funeral Mountain, Coffin Canyon, H...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Home on the Range in Nebraska

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Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play; There seldom is heard a discouraging word And the sk...