Category: Travel
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Seattle a decade ago
Guy approaching me on the street with a ragged bouquet of flowers: “Hey, buy some flowers for your wife?” Me: “No, thanks. She’s 3,000 miles away.” Guy: “That’s cool – I just pulled these out of a dumpster.” That was 10 years ago in Seattle. I talked to him for a while and he told…
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Galta Monkey Temple
The first time I went to India, in 2008, I picked up the paper and read about monkeys that were raiding villages and stealing food and medicine. I’m pretty sure I read that they were stealing human babies, too, although now that I try to find an article online about it I’m having a rough…
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A couple of days in Dublin
I have no Irish blood in me. Well, maybe a few drops – about the proportion of insect legs the FDA allows in chocolate. But for some reason I’ve long felt drawn to the place. Maybe it started with that old Disney movie, Darby O’Gill and the Little People, with the pretty Irish girl. A few…
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Dublin Tunes
Here are a few clips of pub and street musicians I saw last week in Dublin, Ireland. Mutefish at Temple Bar, with some footage of a large leprechaun Brown Eyed Girl by a band at Gogarty’s Another guy at Temple Bar who was playing Johnny Cash until a drunk guy grabbed the mic and started…
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Angels Landing
Angels Landing is a tall rock formation in Zion National Park in Southern Utah. It’s an awfully fun hike. It’s about 3 hours roundtrip and the views get progressively more impressive as you go. The last half-mile gives amateurs like me a little taste of the thrill of the mountain climbing I’ll never do. It’s just…