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... Visiting a place and knowing that you have not damaged it environmentally and culturally, and perhaps even leaving something positive behind, is as much a joy as a duty. Our old friend the late Robbie ...Created on -
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... Visiting a place and knowing that you have not damaged it environmentally and culturally, and perhaps even leaving something positive behind, is as much a joy as a duty. Our old friend the late Robbie ...Created on -
Category: (Technology Showcase)
Photo: Russ Johnson So you want to get off the tourist track, away from the diesel bus stink, the rehearsed hotel staff, the pickpockets and predators that are often drawn to tourists as bees would to ...Created on 15 May 2013 -
Category: (People We've Met)
... What an adventure it would be to go to the jungle and meet them. My jewel stalking adventure ended, however, in a dark, cramped little office in Rio, that of Hans Stern, otherwise known as “the king ...Created on 10 May 2013 -
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... Harry Chase met and traveled with archeologist, poet and British Army officer T.E. Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia, in Palestine. Returning home in 1919, Thomas put together a legendary travelogue that ...Created on 01 May 2013 -
Category: (Good Travel)
... Good Tourism, as I like to call it, contributes. Bad tourism – tourism that overwhelms – destroys. I have seen many travel destinations and experiences deteriorate over the years. I still enjoy small ...Created on 22 April 2013 -
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Photo (c) Russell Johnson Did you know that there was a Gold Rush in Australia at the same time there was one in California? In 1851, just two years after gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in ...Created on 20 April 2013 -
Category: (Wine Country)
... You've seen them: Tamagno, Cappiello, Mucha, even Toulouse-Lautrec and other contemporaries' posters typically featured bold characters against black, gold or red backgrounds with logos that virtually ...Created on 16 April 2013 -
Category: (Wine Country)
... of luxury homes and at good hotels, some for free. A Parisian women I met was thrilled that she saw a real deer walking the property. Around here, deer are pests. And there was a whole lot of partying ...Created on 14 April 2013 -
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Trash Sweepers Clock - All Photos (c) Russell Johnson San Francisco's Exploratorium, a reboot of the pioneering, hands-on science museum that had lived in a dark cavern at San Francisco's Palace of Fine ...Created on 13 April 2013 -
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... Restaurant at the new San Francisco Exploratorium We are treating ourselves to precious 2-inch squares of tender honey-filled comb sections that lean up on a soft mound of Straus Family Creamery yogurt ...Created on 13 April 2013 -
Category: (Wine Country)
... desk. No sign of the horse head. There was a section dedicated to “Apocalypse Now” and costumes from Bram Stoker's Dracula. One wonders what Vlad The Impaler's wine choice would have been. Doubt that it ...Created on 04 April 2013 -
Category: (Apps, Gear and Tech)
A low-tech phone accessory that helps you travel light. After years of hauling a 10+ pound shoulder back ground almost everywhere I go, I’ve almost made a sport of traveling light, particularly when ...Created on 02 April 2013 -
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has ruled that ship ballast water – often a witches' brew of microbes, eggs, plants and creatures (some as much as a foot long) – must be treated before ...Created on 01 April 2013 -
Category: (Editors and Contributors)
... working for such clients as Memorex, where she had to prove that Ella Fitzgerald's voice recorded on the company's audio cassettes COULD break a wine glass, the Napa Valley Wine Auction. In 1984 she ...Created on 28 March 2013 -
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... you will receive emails that may include company news, updates, related product or service information, etc. Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include ...Created on 26 March 2013 -
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... or hotel staff, but leaving ourselves open to whatever catches our fancy. Granted you might not see every landmark or frequent the restaurant that the concierge is promoting, but with a little advance ...Created on 21 March 2013 -
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... once in a conference room at Cal Tech. You see, she is a mathematician. For years she sent me picture books – 21st Century versions of “Our Friend The Atom” – that tried to unravel for me the mysteries ...Created on 14 March 2013 -
Category: (Science & Technology)
... for me once in a conference room at Cal Tech. You see, she is a mathematician. For years she sent me picture books – 21st Century versions of “Our Friend The Atom” – that tried to unravel for me the ...Created on 14 March 2013 -
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I hear it fluttering above: chucka, chucka, chucka. Officially, the California State Bird is the gentle Valley Quail. The exception is in Los Angeles where that honor goes to the helicopter: following ...Created on 08 March 2013