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Exercise: Begin a Story – “Strange Lands”
“It’s time to go, and I get up to find my bag. The people in the rows around me are muddling along just as I am. Despite this, I am obsessed with the idea that I’m not moving fast enough, and that they all hate me for my incompetence as an international traveler.” Continue reading
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Tagged air travel, airbus, anxiety, cz, Czech Republic, european travel, european trip, fiction, fiction writing, flash draft, flash fiction, foreigner, jet lag, outsider, Prague, travel, travel anxiety, travelogue, write, write every day, writing, writing exercise
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Point of View Exercise – Travel Memoir (of 2014, written in 2020)
The man, pausing momentarily in uncertainty on Platform #3, makes a sudden turn as if kicked into gear. He marches down the stairs. He banks around a local man and his aged wife. The old man drags luggage up the ramp running alongside the stairs as the wife looks on in the silent judgment of a person who both requires someone’s assistance and one who doesn’t approve of the manner in which the assistance is being rendered. Continue reading
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Tagged creative writing, Czech Republic, euro travel, europe, Europe by Train, european travel, fiction, literary devices, narrative, perspective, point of view, rail travel, slow tourism, Tourism, tourist, train travel, travel, travelogue, usti nad lebem, writing, writing assignment, writing challenge, writing exercise, writing prompt
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Road Trip in Utah
It really is something to be able to say that it’s possible to see several national parks (and one state park) in one weekend. These weekend excursions tend to be whirlwinds for our family. and this occasion was no exception. … Continue reading
Posted in Travelogue, Travelogue 2019, Travels
Tagged adventure, desert, hiking, national parks, nature, parks, road trip, southern utah, travel, utah, Walkabout, Walking
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The Summer 2019 Grand Adventure is Planned!
My special friends: Summer 2019 is on the docket! My wife and I, still counting as newlyweds I think, are headed for the Continent for a two-week honeymoon – much delayed and much anticipated. It’s a different experience for me … Continue reading
Posted in Travelogue, Travelogue 2019, Travels
Tagged aegean, aegean sea, Alps, Amsterdam, Berlin, bern, Braubach, castle, Castles, cave house, europe, european tour, european travel, european trip, first time visit to europe, germany, going abroad, greece, Hamburg, honeymoon, leaving the country, romantic, romantic travel, santorini, switzerland, train, train travel, trains, travel, traveling, traveling by train, trip
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Aspirational Post (written at 36k feet)
I’m flying over Billings, Montana in a 767-300. It’s been 54 days since I left the ground in Utah back in June, and I of course have mixed feelings about returning home. I’m anxious to get to work – teaching … Continue reading
Posted in Travelogue, Travelogue 2017, Travels
Tagged air travel, airline travel, airplanes, backpacking, europe, Slow Travel, travel, traveling, travels, USA
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