Monday, April 29, 2013

ALASKA IN WINTER: Anchorage and Valdez

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Anchorage, Alaska.  View from jogging trail Most people don’t go to Alaska in the winter unless they are into winter sports, are fans of...
Monday, April 22, 2013

Patrick Blanc's Vertical Gardens, London

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Athenaeum Hotel, London. More than 12,000 plants cover its walls. On the front of the Athenaeum Hotel in London, a giant wall of plants...
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Monday, April 15, 2013

Edinburgh and Dunkeld, Scotland: Castles, Georgian homes, and Macbeth

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Entrance to Edinburgh Castle, Scotland (This is an excerpt from my diary of our London trip in the fall of 1998 when we did a short ...
Monday, April 8, 2013

ROOM WITH A VIEW: Two Year Anniversary of The Intrepid Tourist

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Isle of Mull (Inner Hebrides, Scotland)--view from the front door of our country hotel, Tiroran House. Two years ago, I launched The Int...
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Monday, April 1, 2013

PILTDOWN MAN: 100 Year Old Fossil Hoax, Natural History Museum, London

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Piltdown Fossils on display at the Natural History Museum, London A little over 100 years ago, in December 1912, the British Museum anno...
Monday, March 25, 2013

DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT: A Jurassic Treasure Trove

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Excavating Apatosaurus vertebrae, Dinosaur National Monument, Utah In 1908, Earl Douglass , a paleontologist from the Carnegie Museum i...
Monday, March 18, 2013

SAN FRANSICO BAY-DELTA MODEL, Sausalito, California

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One of my favorite places in the San Francisco Bay area (and unknown to most people) is the Bay Model, a working demonstration of water fl...