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Should You Buy Local When Traveling?

By on February 1, 2012 in GeoTourism

Simple answer: Yes. Ok.  So you’re the conscious traveler type concerned with how you impact the places you visit.  How can you spend money and still benefit the people, environment and communities you visit ? Shop local. I’m a big believer in putting my money where my mouth is. I strongly believe in economic and environmental [...]

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BIG Changes Coming to Around the World in Eighty Years

By on January 25, 2012 in Uncategorized

Hey all, Over the next week, Around the World in Eighty Years will undergo some substantial changes including…. – a whole new appearance, – better access to previous posts and photographs, – an e-book, – increased number and regularity of posts, – options for an email newsletter, – video (and later in the year podcasting), [...]

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My Shot of the Day: Los Brazos, New Mexico

By on December 27, 2011 in My Shot of the Day, New Mexico, USA
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The R/S Faros at Midnight. Vasa. Finland.

By on August 2, 2011 in Europe, Finland, Scandanavia

I walk the rooms of the flat in the depth of night when a soft breeze spreads the curtains over the kitchen table and around the edge of the cheap blue couches. But it is not so deep.  The light is pink and soft.  There is a midnight plant that smells like a clean laundry detergent and its [...]

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My Shot of the Day: North from Helsinki

By on July 28, 2011 in Europe, Finland

One of the many lakes of Finland

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My OTHER Shot of the Day: Sunset at Vesijärvi. Finland

By on July 21, 2011 in Europe, Finland

Last night just west of Lahti, Finland.

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My Shot of the Day: Waiting for the Water Taxi

By on July 17, 2011 in Europe, Finland

  Korpostrom, Finland

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Photos from Haiti

By on July 8, 2011 in Haiti

I’ll dribble out the photos from Haiti over the next two weeks as I work my way through them.  Here is the first. These are two of the farmers we are working with in the remote community of Deslandes in the Artibonite Valley.  They had been working all day in the sun with nothing to [...]

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Memorial Day on the Rio Grande

By on May 30, 2011 in My Shot of the Day, New Mexico, USA, Photography
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My Shot of the Day – Sunset Pronghorn

By on May 27, 2011 in Colorado, USA, My Shot of the Day, Photography, Wildlife
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My Shot of the Day – Sleeping Ute, Cortez, Colorado

By on May 9, 2011 in Archaeology, Colorado, USA, My Shot of the Day, Photography

Meet me at Cowboy Wash for dinner. Bring….just….just you…

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My Shot of the Day – More Spring

By on April 29, 2011 in My Shot of the Day, New Mexico, USA, Photography
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