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2008-04-07T03:14:42Z

Two weeks in America: L.A. to Vegas to L.A. to Yuma to L.A. to Oklahoma City to Nashville to Memphis to Nashville to L.A. and back to Japan. I'm tired. All I've wanted for the past two days was to get home and sleep in my own bed. I've done th...

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Destination?

2008-01-04T13:45:23Z

It turns out, if I want to use my air miles before they expire in the fall, I have to register a pre-booking now. My choices for a short, two night stay within a few hundred miles of home are: Seoul, Hong Kong, or Taiwan. I would like to see al...

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Vox Hunt: Take Me Anywhere

2007-11-18T02:50:31Z

If you had the ability to teleport, where would you go right now?

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The Honeymoon Report, Part 3

2007-08-29T13:10:26Z

Venice I was in Venice for one single day when I was eighteen years old. From the minute I arrived I wanted to be there with someone special and from the second we decided to get married, I knew I wanted to honeymoon there. Venice is, of cours...

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The Honeymoon Report, Part 2

2007-08-29T13:08:03Z

Barcelona I have always wanted to go to Barcelona. I’m honestly not sure why. Perhaps it was all that Hemmingway I read, or maybe Don Quixote, or maybe a movie I saw, or maybe because of Picasso. All of the above, most likely. Barcelona is a...

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The Honeymoon Report, Part 1

2007-08-29T13:04:43Z

Now Last Saturday saw my wife and I returned home from a two week, three country tour of Europe. It was fun, exciting, interesting, expensive, and exhausting. We loved it. We're now at home, sorting through the accumulated detritus of travelin...

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Review: Rough Guide Directions Barcelona

2007-05-06T05:33:53Z

A good travel guide should provide the traveler with all the information they need to get around the city, tourist attractions, hotels, and restaurants. A good travel guide should not provide so much information about a place that the traveler...

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6 Series

2007-04-02T04:45:42Z

Some series that I have been reading a lot of recently: The Best American Nonrequired Reading This series, edited by Dave Eggers, is put together through the 826 Valencia project. As I understand it, students submit their picks for the best rea...

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