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Pablo Neruda in Valparaiso

4/1/2019

  Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Altobasso lost his mother at age thirteen, and the support of his father even before …

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Patagonia — Not Just a Clothing Brand

2/25/2019

Patagonia Before there was Chile, before there was Argentina, there was Patagonia. Before there was a Patagonia, when in 1520 …

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Iceland: So Young, So Fair

9/23/2017

The government of Iceland fell the week we were in the country. It wasn’t apparent in the shops, streets or …

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Touring Italy In Books

9/23/2016

Learning a new language, past the age of ten at least, is something like doing a major, complicated leggo construction, …

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Walking the Sierras, One Millennium at a Time

8/17/2015

As a kid, like many other kids, I was fascinated by time travel. And perplexed.  If I could go back …

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Lakes Basin, Sierra Nevada, CA

8/12/2015

Besides reading and pondering on the human history that got us here, I sometimes wander the really deep history — …

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Franz Kafka: Lost in Prague and finding “Lost in America”

6/20/2014

The best way to get a city, for me, is to put away the maps and follow promising promenades and …

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Walking Vienna

6/12/2014

  Vienna, the Imperial heart of the long lived Hapsburg dynasty (1278 to 1918,) unbreakable bulwark against the Ottoman advance, …

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Reading Vienna

6/8/2014

  In  the quieter and cooler hours between visiting museums, decoding monuments, walking the hot wide avenues of Vienna I …

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Vienna’s Premier Museum, the Kunsthistorisches, One of the Wonders of the World

6/5/2014

As to museums, I’d often rather be outside, in nature’s own “place of study.” But I go, slowly filling my …

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Coastal Croatia – War Wounds Healing, Sea, Salt Air and Sun

5/31/2014

So now we’re in Croatia, a country I never thought I’d be in.  Not that I thought “I will never go,” …

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Poking Around Prague

5/24/2014

The weather continues inhospitable as we arrive in Prague, mid-May, after 10 hours on the night train from Amsterdam.  Now …

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