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Travel Theme: Horizon

I don’t know what it is about new horizons that thrills me so much.  It’s the excitement of something new, whether learning or seeing or just an experience of some sort. Wikipedia defines horizon as: The horizon (or skyline) is the apparent line that separates earth from sky, the line that divides all visible directions…

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Travel Theme: Mountains

My favorite boy toy and I spent a lovely day in late 2011 wandering our way home along the Skyline Drive, which goes through the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.  As I wrote here, we’d already taken the time off from work.  Whether we rushed it or just took a leisurely drive, we had already invested the…

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Mystical Gates & Doorways

This week’s travel theme at Where’s My Backpack is “mystical”.  The hostess for this event, Ailsa, said: Mystical is an evocative term with many nuances. I chose this word because it can be interpreted in so many ways. It can mean spiritually symbolic, otherworldly, ethereal or mysterious. I also love how this word sounds when you…

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