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Notes from Home: On Renewing Passports & Reading the Fine Print
One balmy morning in November 2023, Herb and I were waiting in line to board a flight from Bangkok, Thailand, to Siem Reap, Cambodia. We had just disembarked from a wonder of a cruise on the Regent Explorer that had taken us through Japan and Southeast Asia and were joining a group of eighteen travelers from … Read More
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Notes from Home: Coming Up For Air on San Francisco Bay
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” ~Peter Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon Our first house was a turn-of-the nineteenth-century Victorian on a tree-lined street in Oak Park, … Read More
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California State Railroad Museum: Glorious Ode to Train Travel
“I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.” ~Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar The Pullman sleeping car was gently rocking from side to side as I climbed aboard the Canadian National St. Hyacinthe. Berths with comfy-looking pillows and rose-colored blankets were turned down for the night, and light from … Read More
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