Dear Beth, We have a tradition since you moved away. Every spring, I post pictures for you of the trilliums that bloom in my woods. I have the white ones and one very large red that you really like. They appear every year at the far corner of my property by the beaver pond. I …
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India-Nuclear War?
This map courtesy of indiadefencereview.com When India gained its independence from Britain in 1947, a plan was made to make Pakistan an Islamic state and divide Kashmir into two, half Pakistani and half Indian. These two areas are separated by The Line Of Control , a heavy militarized unofficial boundary. These divisions brought about a …
India-A Traveler’s Hope
I travel to learn about other people in unfamiliar places. I go to listen to their stories and understand. I was raised Catholic and have since left that religion. I don't call myself a Christian but rather a Jesusist because I believe in the doctrine of inclusion and I honor all religions. I still post …
India-My Pandora’s Box, Painful Pondering
17 days in India, a place filled with thousands and thousand of details, each significant. I had direct experience, I didn't use computers or TV screens to separate me from reality. I saw, heard, and smelled India and it was overwhelming. I'm in The US now, a place of physical order, roads are paved, the …
70/7000 September 11, 2001
It was a week and a half after I returned from my 70/7000 trip and I will always remember how sunny that morning was. I walked into the office of my elementary school and saw my colleagues silently huddled around a TV. The images of the burning World Trade Towers were surreal but our feelings …
Hints for Women Travelers #6-The Devil is in the Details
Try not to be picky. Please don't evaluative every little detail of your trip. Think globally, life is a movie not a snapshot. Over the course of my life, I have come to realize that joy is enormous and being joyless makes us small. Joy is about getting out of ourselves, being with people, trying …
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The Autonomous Traveler 