Tag: travel
member name: Mary Beth Magee
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April 22, 2007 09:46 PM EDT --
There are so many great songs about geographic locations! How many can we come up with? Add your songs to the list and let's see how we do.
Here are the rules:
One song per comment, please. . . .
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April 03, 2007 06:57 AM EDT --
Interstate 55 runs from Lake Michigan in Illinois to Lake Ponchartrain in Louisiana. There are many interesting places to dine along its approximately 900 mile length. One of the best is a place tucked . . .
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August 06, 2007 02:16 PM EDT --
Oak Park, Illinois is renowned as having a large number of Frank Lloyd Wright homes and one of his studios. There is also a large artistic enclave. But in summer 2007, Oak Park is the site of . . .
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April 18, 2007 08:24 AM EDT --
There is a sadness to this building. From some angles it appears almost derelict. Yet it has a distinguished history.
This was the first of ten agricultural high schools built in response to a 1908 . . .
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June 09, 2008 10:38 PM EDT --
The cost of gas is through the stratosphere. A vacation away may be out of the question. But I've found a way to enjoy a little getaway without using any gas at all.
I have a subscription . . .
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April 09, 2007 10:53 AM EDT --
Drive through Effingham, Illinois on Interstates 57 or 70 and you will witness a beautiful miracle. Rising from the prairie in gleaming splendor is The Cross at the Crossroads, a 198-foot tall white metal . . .
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May 02, 2007 05:48 PM EDT --
If you missed the previous chapters:
Chapter One: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976969176
Chapter Two: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976970558 . . .
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May 25, 2007 08:10 AM EDT --
“Have you recently been to Qatar?” he asked tartly.
“No, I tarried too long in Tarzana,” I sighed. “Barely made it to Ontario in time. I was tardy arriving at the . . .
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August 06, 2007 12:41 PM EDT --
On the outlot of Yorktown Shopping Center on the Butterfield Road side, you'll find a cluster of trees sheltering tiny Boeger Cemetery. This neatly . . .
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August 14, 2007 10:03 PM EDT --
Sarapeña set the dial and pushed the button. The aperture snapped shut. She adjusted her chapeau as the whirring of escape mode began.
When the whirring stopped, she pushed aside . . .
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April 28, 2007 02:32 PM EDT --
Washington Adventure -- Chapter Two
Our flight into BWI was a little bumpy, but uneventful. We deplaned, rounded up a wheelchair for Mama and headed for the baggage claim. Upon arrival . . .
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May 07, 2007 02:05 PM EDT --
Monday morning dawned damp and gloomy. The skies were clad in appropriate Confederate gray for the day we planned to visit Manassas, Virginia. I had an ulterior motive to heading to Manassas – my . . .
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July 09, 2007 04:42 PM EDT --
When Marshall found that stinkin' nugget,
He set off a run of fools.
Fellas left their wives and families,
Picked up pans instead of tools.
Gold is just a wicked mistress.
When . . .
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August 15, 2007 12:37 PM EDT --
When is a brick wall not a brick wall? When it becomes the canvas for a trompe l'oeil image of windows reflecting another building, and an elegant arch. This beauty is located on the northeast . . .
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August 10, 2007 01:59 PM EDT --
Several years ago, my mother and I made a short road trip from my home in northeastern Illinois to Spring Green, Wisconsin. We visited two remarkably different places - one a concentrated look at a single . . .
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October 24, 2007 01:06 PM EDT --
Meet Barnabas, a traveling zebra. He has a great time traveling around and getting to see the world.
He is a charming little fellow - the smallest of the stuffed zebras in my collection. . . .
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November 13, 2007 02:52 PM EST --
I remember fire hydrants from my youth as big, stocky silver things - fun to try to vault over if you could get a running start. Maybe my impression of their size came about . . .
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March 31, 2007 12:09 PM EDT --
On family road trips in the ‘60s, Daddy always kept up a running commentary on the sights and signs we passed.
“I see that sign every time we come this way, but I’ve never . . .
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June 17, 2007 08:42 AM EDT --
If you missed them, here are the earlier chapters:
Chapter One: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976969176
Chapter Two (or Which Way Did They Go?): . . .
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April 27, 2007 12:17 PM EDT --
It was planned to be the trip of my mother’s lifetime. She had wanted to see Washington, D.C. since childhood. She was supposed to go on several occasions, but something always happened to interfere, . . .
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