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Category: (Science & Technology)
... Francisco Bay. Something aptly nicknamed rock vomit is spreading across the ocean floor off of Alaska, threatening sea life. The zebra mussel was introduced to the Great Lakes by a freighter in 1988 and ...Created on 01 April 2013 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... Peppers album. It is a blend of rye whiskey, agave nectar, basil and red bell pepper. Bottoms Arriba! The LA-Live complex, Staples Center and Nokia Theater draw the masses to concerts and Lakers and ...Created on 08 March 2013 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... Noir could possibly match the experience of waking up to fresh snow Sunday morning. We drove around Lake Tahoe encountering people as giddy as we were along the way: a woman in her 20s from Southern Californa ...Created on 05 October 2009 -
Category: (Connected Traveler Radio)
... and NorwegiansVarmland_Sweden Lake Garda, Italy: The Mad Poet's SocietyItaly-LakeGarda Budapest, Hungary: Wine, Song and Women Who Look Like Zsa ZsaBudapest_Wine_Song_and_Women_Who_Look_Like_Zsa_Zsa ...Created on 16 April 2009 -
Category: (Video)
ygwH35BpO9Q My first impression of India was high culture plus high chaos. But then I hadn't been to Kerala, a multicultural waterworld in India's southwest. Last October Mandip Singh Soin, ...Created on 13 February 2009 -
Category: (Video)
... is Tibet-Lite. It is at the edge of the Tibetan Plateau, not on it, which has some distinct advantages: instead of howling winds and hardscrabble, it has temperate weather, rivers, lakes, wildlife, fall ...Created on 31 October 2006 -
Category: (Wine Country)
... Here is a 35 acre lake (complete with a little island of palm trees) a meadow filled with sculptures and strutting peacocks and three galleries crammed with modern, local art. There is hardly a work ...Created on 18 October 2006 -
Category: (Good Travel)
... that Disney benefited the environment when it turned an ecological nightmare in Florida into a theme park. "The lake in the middle was so polluted that it had to be drained and dug out before Tinkerbell ...Created on 08 September 2006 -
Category: (US/Canada)
Audio "Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow" Frank Zappa God tipped over the snowglobe and fresh flakes fall, frosting the castle and the Canadian Rockies. ...Created on 18 August 2006 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... Reflection Lake Russell Johnson Most people don't come to Shasta for small town charm, however, but for its awe-inspiring natural setting: trout filled streams, clear mountain lakes, stands of ...Created on 16 August 2006 -
Category: (Asia)
We are at a wedding, in China. But it doesn't look very Chinese. This is a Bai wedding on the shores of Lake Erhai in Yunnan Province. Yunnan is in the far south near Thailand. It is one of the most un-Chinese ...Created on 04 August 2006 -
Category: (Europe)
Russ Johnson dodges trolls and other beings that stumble in the night as he looks for his roots in Sweden's Lakes District. Audio Story Varmland_Sweden I grew up with Danes and Swedes and Norwegians. ...Created on 04 August 2006 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... is housed, is a dance of flowing curves and polished woods, a subtly graceful lady. Sacramento is too often skipped on a visit to California, a neglected turnoff on the road between Lake Tahoe and ...Created on 03 August 2006 -
Category: (Europe)
Torre del Benaco, Italy - Photo ©2000 Russell Johnson The Mad Poets Society Lake Garda for Better or for Verse Italy,LakeGarda.mp3 Where are the poets of yesteryear, the bards of epic ...Created on 03 August 2006 -
Category: (Asia)
... huge rooms with shutters that swung open and a circular bar tended by a gap-toothed man with greasy black hair slicked back over his ears. Kandy, situated beside a lake in the hills just below the center ...Created on 31 July 2006 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... are still some nickel slot machines, you can still gorge yourself on a BLT at the 60's throwback Peppermill, have a Martini the size of Lake Mead at Pieros or walk around Bugsy's old haunts amidst palm ...Created on 03 July 2006 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... most breathtaking drives on earth is through the Panamint Valley, which looks like another planet, then along the eastern Sierra Nevada Range past Mt. Whitney and Mono Lake. There are other attractions ...Created on 03 July 2006 -
Category: (Apps, Gear and Tech)
... picture above at Donner Summit, above Lake Tahoe, where there is no cellphone service. We read about the Donner Party there while looking forward to a civilized dinner that evening at Squaw Valley. The ...Created on 30 October 2009 -
Category: (Essays)
... lake, monkey business in the Amazon rainforest, insects that sound like power tools, San Francisco foghorns bellowing like dyspeptic dinosaurs. I have recorded music, too, not with the ear of an aural ...Created on 04 August 2006