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Ireland: Signs of Spring

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It’s still cold, but there are signs of spring beginning to show in Ireland!

Louvre at night, Paris, France

The Louvre at Night

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“How did it get so late so soon? My goodness how the time has flewn.” The Louvre at night, with commentary by Dr. Seuss.

Abu Simbel, Nubia, Egypt

Abu Simbel as metaphor for life

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Abu Simbel and a quote from Confucius: they work together surprisingly well.

From the Elephant Nature Park, but Lek Chailert

Postcard from the End of the World

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A postcard from Thailand about the ending of cruelty and the beginning of freedom.

*NOM NOM NOM*

Mexican food is comfort food

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When living overseas, people miss different things from home. For me it’s definitely Mexican food.

Quote: To get to know a country…

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  To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It’s futile to gaze at the world through a car window. – Albert Einstein   Looks like good stew ingredients – the soup souq?   Photos of lusciously arranged market wares are almost cheating, blog-wise.  I mean the layouts are …

Quote: To get away from one’s working environment…

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  To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ~ Charles Horton Cooley   Watching the sunset from atop a dune in the Moroccan Sahara.   My friend, Rachid, took this photo when we were …

Quote: Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness…

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  Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ~ Mark Twain Flowerbed constellation in India.   I am posting this …

Quote: …the myriads who Before us pass’d…

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  Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too. ~ Edward Fitzgerald   Derreenataggart stone circle. In my head I keep rolling the R's with a Scottish accent.   I've …

Quote: …too much good whiskey is barely enough.

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  Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. ~ Mark Twain   Jameson whiskey — size HUGE! — outside The Old Distillery.   This was just going to be a quote and a photo that I conveniently had in the wings, but I couldn't resist giving a tiny …

Quote: travel is more than the seeing of sights…

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  Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.   ~ Miriam Beard   Photo by me.  Do you recognize the location? (Click to enlarge.)  

Quote: A little thought and a little kindness…

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  A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.   ~ John Ruskin   Photo courtesy of Jesslee via Wikimedia Commons.  

Quote: Enjoy the little things…

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  Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~ Robert Brault   Photo courtesy of dno1967 via Wikimedia Commons.  

Quote: Laughter is the sun…

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~ Anonymous   Photo courtesy of vatobob via Wikimedia Commons.  

Quote: …All life is an experiment.

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  "Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson     Photo by Evelyn Simak via Wikimedia Commons.    

Quote: …to live, not to exist

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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. ~ Jack London  

Quote: …I first became aware of the outside world

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Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.  ~ Eudora Welty  

Quote: …the years of struggle

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One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. ~ Sigmund Freud  

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