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Museum Center – Kids and Dinosaurs
Ohio. I’ve never cared for it much. I’ve had some bad JuJu up there. But, perhaps, possibly it’s not the fault of the state itself as the fault of a Young Man with reckless abandon and “being a Bear...
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Rockcastle River – Highballs with the Devil
Have you ever found yourself in a place or predicament of sorts and wondered…”Self! What in the Wide-wide World of Sports is a-goin’ on with your good senses?!” Well, I have. On countless occasions....
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Weaverville, North Carolina – Puting the Folk in Folksy
Set in close proximity to the lovely Pisgah National Forest. Nestled, and gently hugged by mountains and guarded by rivers, Weaverville has that Relief Factor. And, Brothers and Sister, I’ve not...
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The Old Man (and his family) and the Sea – Sneads Ferry, North Carolina
For all the cheap Plastic crap you'll only use for a week.... The sign at the Onslow County beach access #4 said that ‘if one should be caught in a Riptide, one should not struggle against its current....
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Find Love in Munich the Football Hooligan Way
Ahhhh, Munich The telephone call came on a very humid, very un-breezy Wednesday. It was mid-summer 1989 and I had, just a month or so prior, graduated from high school. Barely. The voice on the other...
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Touring Europe – It Ain’t Gonna Come to You
Traveling Europe - Fun for the Whole Family Well, look at you. You’ve gone and done it. You’ve scrimped, you’ve saved, you’ve cashed in the kid’s birthday/Christmas checks from grandma and grandpa –...
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(East)Berlin,Germany – Once There was a Wall…
Miles and Miles of Sorrow and Hope The tour bus that we crammed into smelled like feet and young men that had been tramping through three European countries, while living out of one backpack each. The...
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Cannes, France – Or, Reading the Fine Print
Cannes on the Rocks. Ain't no Surprise. Did you know that in Cannes, France – on the beaches – there are Beach Cops? Not lifeguards, or anything like that. Beach Cops. Yeah. Me neither. So there we...
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Innsbruck, Austria – So Fresh and So Clean
It's a lot bigger once you get up there. Ain't that always the case though? Do you remember ABC’s Wide World of Sports? Saturday mornings after cartoons, if I recall correctly. Maybe it was Sunday....
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South Africa – And Now, the 2010 World Cup
Shhhh. Listen. Can you hear it? No? Listen again – with reverence. Listen more quietly. Sounds like it’s coming from South Africa doesn’t it? It sounds like a chant. A droning, beating primal sort of...
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