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To Walk the Appian Way in Rome Is To Retrace the Steps of Its History
Photo Essay written 12 July 2008
The Appian Way, or the Via Appia, was a major artery of a road that nourished and led to the heart of Rome.
Bird Watching at Our Breakfast Table in Kenya
We stayed at the Lake Nakuru Lodge in Kenya, home of one of the largest flocks of flamingoes in the world. From the doorway, the outside tables looked lovely and enticing, but as we came closer, we saw quite a little gathering of various African birds. Having heard a rumor that birds void as they take flight, being just ever so slightly paranoid about avian diseases, not wanting to interrupt their movable feast, we decided discretion was the better part of valor and reluctantly turned towards the inside and less crowded and less adventurous tables.
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Eleven Reasons I Expected to Die on My Trip to Africa
List written 9 July 2008
I really had an abiding sense I would die when I went to Africa. I mean how would someone so naive, so broke, so lost, so inexperienced, so clueless, and so out of shape survive?
Carolina Low Country High Tide
1990 View of Our Front 'Yard' at High Tide
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1980 Old Road Back to Our House
It had been draped much more with Spanish moss until there was a freak snow storm in 1975.
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1963 Seven of Us on a Creek Ride to Edingsville
This was not our lifeboat but one we used on the creek to go to Edingsville, the place where our old house originally stood and continues to be too narrow to build on.
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Anne Beach has been a member since 1 June 2008 and goes by itchyfeet2844.
Currently in North Carolina, but wishes she were traveling..
I teach and find renewal in travel, but my budget usually wrecks my aspirations, so (Can you hear me sigh?), I'm searching for outside the box ways to get me out of my little box in Raleigh, NC. I like my little Raleigh box, but when I travel I feel my finger on the pulse of the world, I am moved by the commonality of human experience, my heart beats faster, my mind is enlivened, and my soul is fed. In 2006 I went to Rome, Italy; Ethiopia and Kenya, but my obsession became exaggerated not sate
