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| HUA HIN - THAILAND By: matthew stanford |
| After being there and having such a great time 2 years earlier it was very hard to resist going back to Hua Hin. The town seemed just the same as when I left. I grabbed a room ... |
| Comments (0) | Sep 10, 2010 | 28 |
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| Back To School Blues By: Ilina Ewen |
| I learned that I am the only mom who makes her sons wear a collared shirt for the first day of school photo opp.
The tears started over a toadstool. I was walking Lark, our ... |
| Comments (0) | Sep 09, 2010 | 276 |
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| KANCHANABURI - THAILAND By: matthew stanford |
| Arrived in Kanchanaburi and found the cheapest accommodation ever. It was called Nina's raft house and as the same says was a series of huts floating on the river. It was ... |
| Comments (0) | Sep 09, 2010 | 1,421 |
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| rides in the valley By: Jennifer Hayhurst |
| Whenever my parents would go on vacation (usually twice a year) we would be dropped off at either grandparent's house. Usually, we went to grandma and grandpa Poppy's (short ... |
| Comments (0) | Sep 08, 2010 | 6,193 |
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| AYUTTHAYA - THAILAND By: matthew stanford |
| Arrived on the night train at Ayutthaya at 5:45am, I must have spent 2 hours looking for my pre booked accommodation but failed to find it so in the end I gave up and found another ... |
| Comments (0) | Sep 08, 2010 | 1,902 |
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| Rome By: Ed Thompson |
| ROME
By the Lonesome Traveler
Day One and Two – Arriving and Romeing ‘Til I’m All Poped Out
Tuesday: The interminable journey finally ended in the Eternal City. After the inferno ... |
| Comments (0) | Sep 07, 2010 | 2,598 |
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| Roman Redux By: Ed Thompson |
| ROMAN REDUX
By the Lonesome Traveler
SFO Airport
What is this strange mixture of anticipation and trepidation that I always feel at the start of every trip? Perhaps ... |
| Comments (0) | Sep 07, 2010 | 1,392 |
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| Perseverance By: Sid Kapaholo |
| Starting a story is hard, ending one is even harder. When you are born, you are given the choice to be great or fall hard. You can never choose the boat you are given ... |
| Comments (3) | Sep 07, 2010 | 16,813 |
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| VIENTIANE - LAOS By: matthew stanford |
| It was my second taste of Laos bumpy and horrible roads, the journey was far better this time because I had other travelers to talk to where as last time they were asleep.
I ... |
| Comments (0) | Sep 07, 2010 | 1,404 |
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| The Bloomingdale Fiasco By: Arthur Louis |
| In 1982, almost a year after my book “The Tycoons” was published, my agent got me another contract. The Putnam publishing house wanted someone to write a magnum opus about the ... |
| Comments (0) | Sep 06, 2010 | 4,916 |
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| My First Time on Television By: Arthur Louis |
| In 1972 I wrote an article for New York magazine about the fringe benefits offered by the big local companies. Many employees seemed to think that their salaries were all that ... |
| Comments (4) | Sep 06, 2010 | 5,478 |
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| White Lake, Detroit Michigan By: Richard Ozanne |
| White Lake Michigan
For a period of about one year in total...I had lived in White Lake. It was a very strange incidence that lead me there. |
| Comments (0) | Sep 06, 2010 | 3,116 |
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| VANG VIENG - LAOS By: matthew stanford |
| Got my first taste of the rough and winding Laos roads, seeing people with guns at the side of the road did not do my nerves any favours but the scenery was great. On arrival ... |
| Comments (0) | Sep 06, 2010 | 2,123 |
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| The Bored of Education By: Troy ' |
| Probably the most traumatic change in any kid's life is that day when he gets dressed in new clothes and his mother takes him to that brick building full of other kids he has ... |
| Comments (7) | Sep 06, 2010 | 5,053 |
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| The Family By: Troy ' |
| We didn't have the television family at our house. My parents met at cosmetology school and opened a salon in the basement of the Fort Steuben Hotel. Because the prostitutes ... |
| Comments (2) | Sep 06, 2010 | 4,021 |
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| Digging to China and Sewer Golf By: Troy ' |
| Until I was around six years old, I was a mess from April to October. I mean I was covered in filth from morning to night. There was not a lot of open space around my house. ... |
| Comments (3) | Sep 06, 2010 | 1,377 |
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| One Shot By: Troy ' |
| I knew Mike Grindle since the first day of school. I never saw him in a fight. He didn’t get into trouble, and nobody ever had a bad thing to say about him. He was a ... |
| Comments (3) | Sep 06, 2010 | 1,462 |
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| ...At the Old Ball Game! By: Troy ' |
| The way to get the baseball pants to look right was to turn them inside-out and put them over your legs upside-down. You’d get the elastic at the ends of the legs right ... |
| Comments (4) | Sep 06, 2010 | 1,387 |
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| The Town By: Troy ' |
| My native city is really a small town built among other small towns just outside the commuting distance to Pittsburgh. At a bend in the Ohio River known as the Half Moon, a ... |
| Comments (2) | Sep 06, 2010 | 1,411 |
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| The Old House By: Troy ' |
| The outside of our house was red brick, with a big front porch and a small patch of grass and hydrangeas next to the steps that led right onto the sidewalk. The side windows ... |
| Comments (1) | Sep 06, 2010 | 1,526 |