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Fort Sumner – America’s Unfinest Hour?
After visiting White Sands National Monument, I went to Fort Sumner, New Mexico to visit Billy the Kid’s grave and instead found a far more important story, that of Bosque Redondo and the forced ‘Long Walk’ of the Navajos and the confinement of the Mescalero Apaches. It was one of the lowest points in history […]
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El Paso – Be Prepared to be Surprised
When El Paso was announced as the 2019 SATW conference site in Barbados in 2018, I know a few eyebrows went up. After all this organization has been hosted by New Zealand, China, Iceland, Germany, Mexico, Bermuda and a number of much bigger American cities to name only a few. Was El Paso, at less […]
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Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
We had just wrapped up our visit to southeastern New Mexico with a visit to Carlsbad Caverns and White Sands National Monument and it was now time to start heading southwest. Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in southwest New Mexico is not easy to get to, but well worth the effort as you will be […]
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Creel – Miracle of Stone & Water
This is my third post on the 2019 SATW pre-conference trip to the Copper Canyon area of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. In the first I described the incredible train ride from the city of Chihuahua to Copper Canyon aboard the last passenger train in Mexico, El Chepe. In the second, I explored the wonders […]
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Copper Canyon – Mexico’s Most Amazing Wonder
In my last post I described the wonderful train ride from Chihuahua to Divisidero on board Mexico’s last passenger train, El Chepe. My destination was Copper Canyon, one of seven canyons or barrancas as they are called in Mexico, that make up the largest and one of the deepest canyon systems in the world. In […]
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El Chepe – Mexico’s Last Great Train Ride
The 2019 SATW conference in El Paso produced some very nice surprises, including the city itself, but nothing surpassed the train ride to Copper Canyon on El Chepe. Mexico once used to be criss-crossed with passenger trains from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific and from the United States border to the Yucatan peninsula. […]
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Fort York – Toronto’s Almost Hidden Past
Over the past fifty years I have visited Toronto well over a hundred times and yet, until a few days ago, I had never ventured to Fort York where the foundations for this largest of Canadian cities were laid over 200 years ago. The site of one of the most famous battles of the […]
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Tralee – Arnie’s Irish Coastal Masterpiece
Tralee Golf Club was the third of eight courses I and a group of friends played in Ireland in a trip arranged through our friend Barry McGuigan of Golf Travel NI. The first course was the magnificent and frankly on this trip, incomparable Old Head which I described hole by hole in this post. The […]
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Guadalajara – Mexico’s Enigmatic Second City
This is my twentieth and final post from last year’s inaugural Central Mexico tour with Victor Romagnoli put on by Canadian tour company Adventures Abroad. It comes just in time as Victor sets off again on this tour in just a few weeks – October 28, 2019 to be precise. The last post featured Michoacan […]
From the road
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April 20th, 2023
I’ve had a bad case of writer’s block since getting back from Southeast Asia, but I did finish this post on the fan… https://t.co/HoJjP4jeha
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April 12th, 2023
One of the main reasons to visit the Galapagos is to see the giant tortoises. This latest post explains where you c… https://t.co/mQ8PWha8j3
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April 11th, 2023
Spring is very late this year so it’s nice to see the crocuses finally show up. https://t.co/7HD6wvsEJ6
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April 9th, 2023
Sunday morning is a good time to reflect back on another Sunday in Reading, England which I wrote about here:… https://t.co/EJ4Is2NSqz