"You use a glass mirror to see your face, you use works of art to see your soul." -George Bernard Shaw. I leisurely drove through Vermont last week...Bennington, Manchester, Burlington, North Hero. I had escaped some bad weather in Connecticut and Massachusetts and my days in Vermont …
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My Favorite Adventure-Barcelona, Spain and Antoni Gaudi
I choose my yearly adventures in strange ways. I chose Barcelona (almost embarrassed to admit it) because I saw this city on an episode of "The Bachelorette". It looked interesting and I wanted a change from the sometimes dark and ancient history of some of my previous trips. I really had no idea that this …
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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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Traveling to the Past and Learning about The Present
My trips sometimes don't have objectives. I hear or read about a place and curiosity pushes me there. That's how I got to Lily Dale, the Spiritualist Camp, in western New York State which was founded in 1848. I treated the experience with a lot skepticism and wandered through the little colony of houses with …
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Fitness Training for Old Age
Me, March 2018 Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida Eleven years ago I had back pain. I think it was psychosomatic. I was mad at myself for staying too long in a relationship that wasn't working. Once I got the man out of my head, the back pain was gone. Two years ago, I developed pains in …
The Travel Bug, A Gift from My Dad
On Saturday, if my dad was still alive, he would have turned 95 years old. On Sunday, as I headed home to The North Country, I stopped at a tourist attraction between North and South Carolina. "South of The Border" is bigger but shabbier than the first time I visited almost 60 years ago. Route …
Leaving
On a whim I took an adult education class at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. About eight weeks ago, I started this blog. I am a snowbird. When my world up north turns grey, black, and brown I head south. But now that I hear that the snow is melting and spring in North …
The Autonomous Traveler 