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September 22, 2017February 15, 2020

Travel to Albania: the mysterious pillboxes of a paranoid past

We’re traveling through Albania’s remarkably diverse landscape. We very slowly drive up and up horrendous roads with pencil-thin cliff ledges through the cold snow-capped Albanian Alps, then down and down and along gently rolling scrubby panoramas, then to the hot shores of the Adriatic Sea. We notice many expensive Mercedes-Benz vehicles on the rutted roads …

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September 12, 2017January 19, 2020

Peru Travel: Walking in the footsteps of the Incas at Machu Picchu

You can hike or you can take the bus from nearby Aguas Calientes to see Machu Picchu in the Peruvian Andes. But I’d already been having shortness of breath and nausea in Cusco, which at 11,000 feet above sea level was supposed to help acclimate us for a couple of days before our train to …

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September 7, 2017January 19, 2020

Iguazu Falls: worth the bad hair day

Iguazu Falls in Argentina and Brazil is breathtaking, of course. There are 275 falls along 1.67 miles of the Iguazu River. The U-shaped Devil’s Throat, the most impressive, straddles the countries’ borders and plunges nearly 370 feet across 2,300 feet. Iguazu is higher and nearly twice as wide as Niagara Falls. (Victoria Falls, straddling Zambia …

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August 14, 2017February 15, 2020

Safe in Singapore through no fault of our own

Just in case you’re wondering if Singapore is as safe as it claims to be – debatably only second to Tokyo, according to various sources - here is how safe it is. We went to Sentosa Island, taking a cab then the air tram, to see its beautiful aquarium and view its amazing nightly laser …

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February 15, 2017January 26, 2020

Travel to Tahiti: Bora Bora is like a movie … but which one?

Bora Bora is one of those places that is so beautiful, you feel like you are in a movie. I don’t know which movie. Hopefully not “Jaws.” After an all night flight from Los Angeles to French Polynesia, we chartered a beautiful catamaran yacht with four staterooms and attached bathrooms from The Moorings in Tahiti. …

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Travel to Albania: the mysterious pillboxes of a paranoid past

Peru Travel: Walking in the footsteps of the Incas at Machu Picchu

Iguazu Falls: worth the bad hair day

Safe in Singapore through no fault of our own

Travel to Tahiti: Bora Bora is like a movie … but which one?

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