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INDONESIA: KOMODO NATIONAL PARK, SNORKELING
 July 12, 2023I forgot to include one more part of our Komodo National Park experience--snorkeling. I don't know how I could have forgotten to include this because it was BY FAR the best snorkeling we...
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INDONESIA: LABUAN BAJO HOTEL AND BACK TO BALI (DRIVING, TEGENUNGAN WATERFALL,...
 July 12, 2023We arrived back in Labuan Bajo too late to catch a flight back to Bali, so we had booked a room at the Sudamala Resort, a four-star accommodation that felt very five-starish. The room...
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INDONESIA: BALI (UBUD MONKEY FOREST AND TANAH LOT TEMPLE)
July 13, 2023After lunch we headed to the Monkey Forest in the town of Ubud. (Ubud is the cultural heart of Bali and is probably where we should have stayed.) The full name of the place is The Sacred...
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INDONESIA: FROM BALI TO CALIFORNIA AND REFLECTIONS ON THE TRIP
 July 14, 2023Our guide and driver picked us up at our hotel and drove us to the Denpasar International Airport, also known as the Ngurah Rai International Airport. It looks very Balinese in its...
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NORTH CAROLINA: DURHAM
 October 2022In the summer of 2022, our son moved from Utah to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to take a job as a risk assessment arborist for a tree company. I wanted to be able to visualize where he was...
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NORTH CAROLINA: KAYAKING TO THE THREE SISTERS SWAMP ON THE BLACK RIVER
 October 2022My son Sam proposed that he and I have an adventure while I was visiting him in North Carolina--a kayaking trip. "Sure!" I said. "Sounds like fun!"Clearly I had no idea what I had agreed...
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NORTH CAROLINA: CHAPEL HILL
 October 2022Chapel Hill is a smallish city of about 62,000 in North Carolina dominated by the prestigious University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is similar to the town where we currently live...
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NORTH CAROLINA: RALEIGH
 October 2022On my last day I had several hours to kill after my son went to work and before I had to head to the airport, so I decided to take a look at North Carolina's capital city, Raleigh, named...
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GERMANY 2000: PFORZHEIM
December 16, 2000The first year I took travel pictures with a digital camera was 2009. We had some great trips before that, and I documented them by creating traditional scrapbooks. I have decided to...
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GERMANY 2000: STUTTGART, ROSENFELD, FREIBERG, AND ALLGAU
December 16-17, 2000Our next stop was Stuttgart, a city 30 miles east of Pforzheim and where my mother's friend Eberhardt was living. It is the capital of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, and...
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GERMANY 2000: NEUSCHWANSTEIN CASTLE, FUSSEN, AND THE WEISKIRCHE
 December 18, 2000Neuschwanstein Castle is one of those places that everyone has seen, at least on postcards and calendars and in travel guides. With 1.5 million visitors a year, it is one of the most...
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AUSTRIA 2000: SALZBURG
  December 18-19, 2000Mom was excited to take us to Salzburg, one of the cultural centers of Europe for centuries. The area has had inhabitants since the Neolithic Age (10,000 - 4,500 BCE), so even for...
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GERMANY 2000: ULM, ROTHENBURG OB DE TAUBER, SPEYER
 December 20-21, 2000We had taken the southern route near the Alps and the Austrian border on our way from Neuschwanstein to Salzburg, and on our way back into Germany we took the Autobahn from...
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FRANCE 2000: NORMANDY
 December 22, 2000Our daughter had spent a semester in France as an exchange student with her university, and we were excited to finally get to share in the experience with her. Bob was particularly...
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FRANCE 2000: MONT-SAINT-MICHEL AND SAINT-MALO
 December 23, 2000We got a good start the next day so that we could be at Mont-Saint-Michel at the exact time the tide was out. Mont-Saint-Michel is what is called a "tidal island," or an island when...
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FRANCE 2000: CHARTRES AND VERSAILLES
 December 24, 2000It was Christmas Eve AND Sunday and we were not sure what would be open, but we began our day by driving to Chartres to see its massive Gothic cathedral, built mostly between 1193 and...
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FRANCE 2000: PARIS - CHRISTMAS MORNING, ARC D'TRIOMPHE, STRAVINSKY FOUNTAIN,...
 December 25, 2000I just couldn't let the usual Christmas traditions go, so when we woke up on Christmas morning in our hotel in Versailles, there were stockings with pieces of paper listing small...
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FRANCE 2000: PARIS - THE CATACOMBS, THE ORSAY MUSEUM, THE EIFFEL TOWER, AND...
 December 26-27, 2000Starting in 1786, wagons loaded with the remains of more than six million human bodies made their way through the streets of Paris at night, depositing their loads in a mine shaft...
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FRANCE 2000: PARIS - PERE-LACHAISE CEMETERY, THE BASTILLE MONUMENT, THE...
 December 27-28, 2000Our next stop was Père-Lachaise Cemetery, the largest cemetery in the city with over one million bodies buried there and countless more cremated remains in the columbarium. It is...
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ITALY 2024: LOS ANGELES TO ISTANBUL TO NAPLES
Wednesday, March 13-14, 2024We planned a trip to Italy, Malta, and Tunisia during my spring break in March 2024 and invited my sister Chris and her husband Stan to join us. The trip started off a bit...
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