Wow – an entire decade has passed since my first post, seen below:
Just as its owner, this blog is a work in progress.
2014 is a brand-new year, with unchartered vistas, innumerable wonders waiting for discovery, personal and spiritual connections to be found, explorations not only for physical and cerebral strength but hoping also for inner enlightenment and happiness. Throughout the year I look forward to sharing of course my GLOBAL trips – have a few I am investigating (part of the fun in travel is the planning) and hope to have some serious choices narrowed down soon. Already I have some drafts written of some recent trips, including a farm to table themed jaunt through the Loire Valley in France. More details to follow, but here are three edifices that epitomize the wonders of the trip, ranging from Troglodyte caves:
to vast magnificent chateau’s:
Chateau de Chambord to a winery producing some of my most favorite winres:
Chateau de Sancerre
There are also many intriguing sites closer to home – for example I recently did a walking tour of the Union Square area where the composer Dvorak lived, worked and drank (more on that in a later posting). How many of us have taken trips outside of our home towns, visited museums, parks, zoos, theater, remarked on artwork, statues, architecture, food, wine, music but yet have not done the same locally? While I often go to the theater, and enjoy fine dining (and drinking) with occasional visits to a small selection of museums, I must admit to not taking full advantage of the myriad offerings right at my fingertips – and this tendency I hope to change in the following year. And since there is very little I have no interest in (another topic for a later posting) this blog should be fascinating, informative, silly, breathtaking, funny, poignant, hokey, (fill in your favorite descriptor here).
I have always enjoyed sharing my adventures through email, Facebook, Twtter, Instagram etc etc . I am hoping that this site will provide a fun, easy one stop-place to keep you posted on … me!
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My blog did not start off as a travelogue, although travel, whether local or global has always been a primary focus. Instead, my posts were a cornucopia of anything that struck my fancy – linguistics:
“#: Hashtag by any other name would be …OCTOTHORPE???” https://wp.me/p47t7A-2E
to personal facing of fears:
“FACING FEARS OR FAINT” https://wp.me/p47t7A-1IQ
to the very popular WTDGAP (When Things Don’t Go As Planned):
“MISS GARMIN – PLEASE, NO MORE ROUNDABOUTS! – WTDGAP” https://wp.me/p47t7A-dE
In the first few years photographing images with my camera that caught specific key moments of a journey – the personalities of wildlife, the beauty of architecture’s lines and angles, the bottomless exquisiteness of natural landscapes – had not yet become the major obsessions they are today, While not quite grammatically correct, my blog’s opening statement is as true today as it was 10 years ago:
Just as its owner, this blog is a work in progress.
I have been so fortunate to have had the adventures shown here and each and every experience has become a part of me – mentally, physically and spiritually. I have met amazing people, some of whom have become wonderful friends. I have had moments of singular bliss.
I have learned so much – but am still chasing dreams. I thank you all for your support and hope to bring new journeys and adventures in the coming year.
Happy New Year!!
May you and your family and friends have a new year filled with love, health, happiness and opportunities to find your own special bliss.
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