Tag: travel
member name: Beryl Singleton Bissell
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September 16, 2009 01:49 PM EDT --
Assisi: parking ticket and all
We came to Assisi seeking St. Francis and Clare. We found them. We found, as well, a greeting from the Assisi police: a parking ticket. Parking in Assisi . . .
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August 27, 2009 09:24 PM EDT --
We ate breakfast on the terrace in Amalfi, served by skinny Renaldo who buzzed and hummed about, making an occasional nervous foray into conversation about his marriage to a Russian woman from Eastern . . .
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January 17, 2009 07:09 PM EST --
We left Rome for Naples on my birthday, October 10, 2008. This was not a wholly good idea, unless one thrives on travel tension. The day started off innocently enough when we took a taxi to the Termini . . .
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November 19, 2008 04:05 PM EST --
When my hubby Bill surprised me with tickets to Italy to celebrate our 12 wedding anniversary and suggested that I plan the trip as I “knew Italy,” I thought “Oh my! Did I still “know” Italy 30 years . . .
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December 16, 2008 10:38 PM EST --
Normally, while trudging through the deep sand along Lake Worth’s beach, we encounter lots of man-made debris cast up on shore by Atlantic’s waves along with slimy seaweed, tortured driftwood, . . .
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February 27, 2009 03:39 PM EST --
As if she'd been awaiting the exact moment of our arrival on the patio for breakfast the next morning, Rita –Titty’s mother (of La Maison de Titty ), hurried out with tiny éclairs with Nutella . . .
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June 28, 2007 11:22 PM EDT --
I’m a terrible planner. Organizing events has never been a strong point. When my children were little, even their simple birthday parties with neighborhood playmates flummoxed me. Should we play . . .
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October 10, 2006 04:24 PM EDT --
Did you know that you can turn your Gather points into gift certificates to send others? While inquiring how I could help send our beloved Gather friend Christopher Bell and his seeing eye dog on . . .
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November 15, 2006 07:41 PM EST --
Though the Jewel of the Seas would not leave Boston until 5 pm on November 25, Bill and I began our trip two days ahead of time. I was scheduled to give an early morning talk to a group of . . .
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September 30, 2008 11:45 PM EDT --
"Leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again." John Denver's lyrics waft through my mind as I return to Gather for an intense day of reading and commenting, only . . .
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August 11, 2006 06:15 PM EDT --
I'd like to suggest Damian McNichol's Smiling Dolphis to the Best of Gather. Until I read this article I was one of the many who enjoy watching Dolphins perform in Zoos and waterparks. Damian takes . . .
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January 12, 2006 11:21 AM EST --
November 30
I convince Bill, my husband of one month, to sign up for a week-long rafting trip on the Yellowstone to take place the following August. The expedition's description of journaling and . . .
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April 15, 2008 01:45 PM EDT --
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September 29, 2007 06:03 PM EDT --
The day the calendar announced fall’s arrival – a pounding rain doused the North Shore. The darkened, cloud-menacing sky that had hovered over the northland for two days sent waters gushing . . .
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February 24, 2007 03:41 PM EST --
The “Literary Events” Happening
Gather’s literary events took place during the two full days we spent sailing to and from Bermuda. Posters placed prominently in much trafficked areas . . .
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July 25, 2007 07:03 AM EDT --
In December 1999, I fly to Buenos Aires to meet my husband Bill who is working in South America. I beat him there by a whole day and arrive to find the streets of the city blockaded . . .
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August 12, 2007 06:45 PM EDT --
There was a time when Ted could shimmy up trees with the best of them. He could gambol in play and run faster than others. Ted can no longer do these things because he weighs 900 lbs. Before you gasp in . . .
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May 07, 2008 08:26 PM EDT --
The Sentinel -- an average giant
When we set off earlier this week for the Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks we knew only what the map told us: that they lay several hundred miles . . .
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July 01, 2008 12:07 AM EDT --
From April 29 through May 4, I was in New York for the PEN World Writers Fesitval "Public Lives/Private Lives."
First, I should probably tell you what PEN is and how I found myself at this . . .
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August 13, 2008 08:33 PM EDT --
I took my grandchildren, Tommy age 10 and Cassie age 9 to Ely, Minnesota last week. Why take grandchildren to Ely when there’s so much to do and see here on Minnesota’s north shore of Lake Superior? Come . . .
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