Paul in Jacksonville Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won a Pulitzer Prize in 1939 for her book titled The Yearling. She lived for 25 years in her home in Cross Creek, Florida. The property was a working orange grove at the time. The home is now a national landmark. She authored dozens of short stories and several …
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On The Road – Albatrossity – Ngorongoro Crater 4
Wow, with all the wonderful series you guys submitted when I put out the call for posts in December, it seems like it’s been forever since we have had 5 single posts in one week. Either way, whether it’s a series or a single post, we are now caught up on the backlog, so it’s …
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On The Road – BigJimSlade – Hiking in the Alps, Chamonix and Grindelwald 2022, Odds & Sods
BigJimSlade The name of the album by The Who just popped into my head when putting this together. Here are some more which are fun, but didn’t make the previous posts. Also, here are some videos of Mt. Blanc (they are about half a minute each). There’s no voice over or anything, just views. Looking …
On The Road – BigJimSlade – Hiking in the Alps, Chamonix and Grindelwald 2022, Männlichen – Wengen, part 2
BigJimSlade Regarding the Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau, the story goes that the monk, is protecting the young maiden, from the ogre. I guess if you grew up in the mountains before tv, radio, and the internet, maybe you would make up stories about the mountains, too. Let’s carry on from lunch below the peaks.
– On The Road – BigJimSlade – Hiking in the Alps, Chamonix and Grindelwald 2022, Männlichen – Wengen, part 1
BigJimSlade Before I continue, I have to note that traveling from Chamonix to Grindelwald, we took six trains. We only had to wait between 5 and 20 minutes for each one. Männlichen is a mountain that separates Grindelwald from Lauterbrunnen. It has excellent views all around, especially of the mountains that dwarf it, the Eiger, …
On The Road – BillinGlendaleCA – Death Valley
🐾BillinGlendaleCA I had a few days off from the Home of the Orange Apron around Labor Day, so I decided to take the opportunity to get away from the oppressive heat in LA by driving 5 hours to someplace much, much hotter. The weather reports on cloud cover looked good, so I decided to go, …
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On The Road – Albatrossity – Ngorongoro Crater 3
Wow, this itinerary has us all over the map. Africa on Monday with Albatrossity, Death Valley with BillinGlendaleCA on Tuesday, then on to the Alps with BigJimSlade for the rest of the week. Gosh, when you guys plan these trips, does no one think of the time zones??? Albatrossity Back to Africa again this week, …
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