Tag: travel
member name: Cynthia C.
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September 18, 2008 04:43 PM EDT --
As I sit in the airport in Madrid, reluctantly reacquainting myself with all I’ve missed this past week, my anxiety level goes from serene back up to it’s usual state of constant tension and fear, which . . .
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July 02, 2008 08:42 AM EDT --
On one of my recent business trips, something in my carry-on luggage caused one of our diligent security guards to call me to the side bar and give me thedreaded equivalent of a strip search in public. . . .
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September 02, 2006 06:13 PM EDT --
The east entrance to Yellowstone Park is 52 miles from Cody. The legend of Buffalo Bill, cowboys and Indians, and RG's brothers and sister awaited me there. RG's mom was driving and we would take . . .
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September 21, 2007 08:45 AM EDT --
Ever since my daughter moved to Montreal I've had a heightened interest in the value of US currency against the Canadian dollar. Five years ago, when she and her husband had just had their first child . . .
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June 30, 2006 08:12 AM EDT --
In 1963 you could fly the Boston to Newark shuttle for $25 with your student discount. That's when I discovered air travel. I'd fly home from Boston University on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and spring . . .
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September 03, 2006 05:25 PM EDT --
High school reunions can be intimidating affairs. Not so for RG. The reunion itself seemed incidental. It provided an excuse to explore the haunts of his childhood and to introduce me to his family. He . . .
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September 09, 2006 09:43 AM EDT --
When it was time for us to leave Cody I was ready. As beautiful and exotic as it seemed I felt like an alien. These were just not my people. It had nothing to do with the reception I got from RG's . . .
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January 27, 2008 11:18 AM EST --
It's not like I've sailed through life being untouched by death. My husband died at the relatively youthful age of 52. I was 10 years younger and had left him years earlier. He was also the father . . .
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January 15, 2008 08:04 AM EST --
It was a very cold, uncomfortable train ride from Vienna to Amsterdam. Not surprising I suppose for February, and an overnight ride through the mountains but all my other travel experiences in Europe led . . .
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August 22, 2006 07:28 AM EDT --
Wyoming, how does a city girl prepare for such a place? You don't. You can't.
RG had spent much of his childhood on a farm in Wyoming. There was no way I might have determined that on meeting . . .
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August 25, 2006 05:34 PM EDT --
Denver, as a city, was unimpressive. When you're born in NYC and live in Boston you have a benchmark by which other cities are judged. Denver did not make the cut.
Luckily we didn't have to hang . . .
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August 30, 2006 08:08 AM EDT --
By the time Leonard and RG's mom arrive we are dressed and looking perfectly normal. They are excited about taking us on the long drive around Flaming Gorge and down to the dam which they tell us is . . .
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October 07, 2006 06:49 PM EDT --
Although RG taught me how to run (after years of wearing 3 inch heels with pointy toes), and he is still my trainer, I am the more disciplined runner. One could say obsessive, but I prefer "disciplined". . . .
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May 02, 2007 09:13 AM EDT --
Yesterday I saw the Liberty Bell for the first time. It is one of those icons that seems emblazoned in your memory bank from a very early age, from those first simple history books that are mostly pictures, . . .
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March 23, 2006 07:50 AM EST --
I'm standing with my luggage in what I hope is a conspicuous place. A few minutes later an attractive young (nearly everyone these days is looking "young" to me) woman comes charging through . . .
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September 01, 2006 10:08 AM EDT --
We are headed for Cody, Wyoming and RG's 20th high school reunion. Neither of us drive or have a license or own a car or have ever owned a car, so we are dependent on his family's good will. Luckily . . .
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September 17, 2006 12:34 PM EDT --
It wasn't really possible to prepare myself for this trip. But, there
was a lot of stuff that needed to get done before we left, like buying a house for instance.
I still had that $30,000 from . . .
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September 20, 2006 08:58 AM EDT --
The flight to Zurich was uneventful, except for the frequent meals, snacks, good wine and real silverware. Those were the days when it was still fun to fly. You were also offered a steaming, hot, white . . .
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November 26, 2006 10:59 AM EST --
More airline food, dinner, followed quickly by breakfast, now lunch. Wish I was in bed. Odd sensation of the plane moving backwards. I think of Otto's face grinning at me. It makes me shudder. . . .
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December 12, 2006 07:30 AM EST --
RG and I go running alone, together. We've trained so we have more stamina and can run faster than the others in The Group. For them, this idea of jogging to keep in shape is relatively new. . . .
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