Travel

Summer Update: The Non-Traveling Traveler

12 October 2010

I realize this is in fact a travel blog, but since I haven’t been much of a traveler lately, it’s just going to be about life, which, since life is a journey, is a travel story anyway. Also, a few people have asked me about my next post, and, to be honest, I was surprised […]

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Welcome to Alaska

3 July 2010

I’m in love. My nephew, Passage Ray, was born 3 weeks ago, and since then, I’ve hardly missed a day of seeing him. He’s the first one of his generation in the family, and so right now, he’s the darling. I am so glad I made it back to the U.S., and Alaska, in time […]

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Towns of Norway

24 March 2010

So far, I’ve been in Norway for a month, and I’ve managed to visit all the major cities, and some of the minor ones, in the southern coastal region. Kristiansand, Stavanger, and Bergen have been my most recent ports-of-call, and I did some exploring and I did some dawdling, and I like to think I […]

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Norwegian Introduction

7 March 2010

I had arrived in Norway full of hope, but was quickly disconcerted by the language barrier and the poor directions I had from the hostel I had booked. It was a Friday night. I had flown from London and had taken the bus into Oslo from the airport, 2½ hours away. The bus station is […]

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Liverpool: The Emigrant Experience

28 February 2010

Everybody goes to Liverpool to remember the Beatles. It’s appropriate, of course, since they are still the towns most famous export. However, they are probably not the town’s most important legacy — that honor, in my opinion, belongs to its role as the main jumping off point for thousands upon thousands of European immigrants to […]

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