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Walking On: Monticello :: Thomas Jefferson's Masterwork
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Travel journeys and long walks. Wednesday, July 4, 2012. Monticello : Thomas Jefferson's Masterwork. Charlottesville’s favorite son, Thomas Jefferson, left more than a theoretical mark on the nation and the world. The ambitious abstractions he wrote in the Declaration of Independence. Remain the international benchmark for democratic standards of government and civil liberty. Jefferson also championed the western explorations of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. That began in 1803. Named for King Georg...
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Walking On: October 2012
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Travel journeys and long walks. Monday, October 29, 2012. 2012 Outbreaks of hantavirus in USA. Several decades ago, when I worked as budget officer and research assistant in the University of Toronto Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (now part of the U of T Dalla Lana School of Public Health. The term Medical Geography circulated in scientific discussion, but not the general press. Medical cartography - mapping disease. Quarantine area for ebola infected patients. Tropical zone insects a...
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Walking On: June 2011
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Travel journeys and long walks. Thursday, June 16, 2011. Classic Fuel Stop: Buy Booze, Bottle Recycling and Gas the Ride. But now these enterprises are boarded up. The fuel pumps idle and the snack shop shut. What would be a good use for these basic structures, constructed during the 1970s before shoddy wallboard and sloppy standards became the norm? Hostels for poor travelers? Bunk houses for homeless wanderers? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Cymru and Comanche: Cyberflanerie. The Art of Grace.
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Walking On
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Travel journeys and long walks. Wednesday, November 21, 2012. Organic Materials for Chinese TraditionalMedicine. When you’re looking for pulverised dragon bone,. Yak horn or aged ginseng, the local drug store just won’t do. The pharmacy to visit is in Toronto, Canada. It may be farther than the local mall, but compared. To jetting across the Pacific, Toronto is just around the corner. Dundas Street is a busy east-west artery through. Toronto's Chinatown, a vigorous commercial segment. Look and feel better.
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Walking On: October 2011
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Travel journeys and long walks. Wednesday, October 19, 2011. Suzhou China - Pedicab Drivers Waiting for Tourists. 169;2007 L. Peat O'Neil. Is an urban area with a population of 6 million, formerly known as ‘water country’ or the ‘land of rice and fish.’ That must have been in the past, because instead. We saw miles o. F factories under looming grey skies. 8217;s traditional silk production has been replaced by IT firms, industrial parks and a massive new exhibition center, 2. Canal Life, Suzhou. And mine...
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Walking On: May 2012
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Travel journeys and long walks. Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Hawai'i Images March 2012. Rabbit Is. in distance, off east Oahu. Peer closely and see the whales. Kaua'i Hindu Temple guardian. See Kaua'i rainbows every day. On the way to full moon crystal bowl vibration healing ceremony. Memorial to the Hawai'ian nation and the spirit of the land usurped by . oh, read about it. Rabbit Island - does the island look like a crouching island to you? Dry side = east side Oahu. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Walking On: Diego Rivera and His Idols
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Travel journeys and long walks. Saturday, September 1, 2012. Diego Rivera and His Idols. Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City. A Home For My Idols. The second dream, one of thirty-five years’ standing, was renewed by the destruction wreaked everywhere by the war. It was to build a home for my anthropological collection, which I had started to assemble on my first return to Mexico in 1910. Can you see Frida or Diego actually wielding hammers themselves? Perhaps they hired workers, ummmm? This venture, however, ...
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Walking On: March 2012
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Travel journeys and long walks. Sunday, March 18, 2012. Gardener's House, Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne. Orientation map at Quarantine Station, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. Started Australia trip with these 2 day packs. Six weeks later I used a rolling suitcase. Sailing away from Port of Melbourne. Allendale Gardens, Tasmania. Table Cape tulip farm, Tasmania. Bennett's wallaby, Tasmania. Cradle Mt. landscape at sunset. Napoleon Pear Tree, Launceston City Park. Fruit Market in Hobart, Tasmania.
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Walking On: December 2012
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Travel journeys and long walks. Saturday, December 1, 2012. Kyudo: Japanese Archery in Mexico City. Kyudo Kai form - fully drawn bow. Master of Kyudo, Sensei Ali Zolfagharian teaches. Japanese archery - in Mexico City. Kyudo is radically different than archery I'd practiced in high school. Our group of dedicated archers would meet on Sunday mornings at the. UNAM campo de tiro con arco. Kyudokai Mexico sponsored the classes. One Arrow, One Life - the essential text on Kyudo. Upper body muscles may need de...
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Walking On: November 2012
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Travel journeys and long walks. Wednesday, November 21, 2012. Organic Materials for Chinese TraditionalMedicine. When you’re looking for pulverised dragon bone,. Yak horn or aged ginseng, the local drug store just won’t do. The pharmacy to visit is in Toronto, Canada. It may be farther than the local mall, but compared. To jetting across the Pacific, Toronto is just around the corner. Dundas Street is a busy east-west artery through. Toronto's Chinatown, a vigorous commercial segment. Look and feel better.
