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Appalachian Trail Adventure 2013 – Connecticut, Part 2 of 3
The Hike On the Appalachian Trail everyone takes a trail name. For the thru-hikers this becomes an identity that grows as they make their northward progress from Georgia to Maine. My trail name is...
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Appalachian Trail Adventure 2013 – Connecticut, Part 3 of 3
The Remainder of the Trip Day 5 of 6 saw the absolute highlight of the trip, and was leading up to our last night in the woods. We got up and struck camp as quickly as possible. We had both developed...
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Germany – The First of Three Posts: Oktoberfest!!
A year ago three buddies and I planned a trip to Germany primarily to experience Oktoberfest. At the beginning of this month, as the Federal government was shutting down, we arrived in Munich for a...
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Poland – A Family Visit
This is my great grandmother. She was born Karolina Musial and this picture is from about the time she emigrated from Poland to the United States, around the turn of the century. She would eventually...
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Warsaw – First Glance
Today was the first day of our family trip to Poland. The trip officially began at the Newark, NJ airport. This was a central location to the four of us and has good flight options to Poland....
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Snapshots of Czestachowa, Poland
We are spending a couple days in the city of Czestachowa (pronounced chesta-ho-vah). during that time we are visiting some significant sites, and I will submit a significant posting on them. Here,...
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Jasna Gora – Poland’s Spiritual Capital
Today was a profound experience. We visited Jasna Gora (yaz-na-goor-ah), a monastery that is considered Poland’s spiritual capital. The tour made such an impact that even though there were other...
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Thoughts As We Leave Poland
The King’s summer palace in the Warsaw Gardens. As I write this I am sitting in the Lufthansa Lounge about to fly home. I have enjoyed this trip on so many levels. It was a great time to...
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The Food of Poland, Pt 2 – Polish Restaurants
Lest you think we only ate pierogis and galumpki in Poland, we did eat at several fine restaurants…or as they say, restauracja! Polish service is paced differently from US service. In the US,...
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X-Country Drive: Day Zero
It’s been on my bucket list forever, and now my friend Tim is moving back east. Months ago I offered fly out to San Francisco and ride back with him with the request that we not script out the trip in...
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