Tag: travel
group name: gatherourstories
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September 06, 2006 12:43 AM EDT --
When the terrorist took down the twin towers, we were all horrified. But time passed and we became sad.Then more time passed and we became angry. Now it's going to be 5 years soon and the people of . . .
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November 25, 2006 11:47 AM EST --
Some spelling of words and grammar has intentionally been changed to add to the authenticity of the narratives and should be considered when reading. Thank you.
The Coffin Ship Journey 1847
Me infant . . .
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October 25, 2006 10:25 PM EDT --
In the summer of my junior year of college I was presented with an opportunity I could not let slip through my fingers. There was going to be a study tour of Europe that summer and I was bound and . . .
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February 13, 2008 01:07 AM EST --
Love abounds. It flows on the crisp air of winter or the steamy heat of summer. It knows no limits. I have often thought it strange that some people do not like Valentine's Day. How can you not like . . .
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January 02, 2008 12:14 AM EST --
Before I tell you about the turkey, let's back up to the sirens. Sirens in Minnesota can vary in meaning. I am not talking about ambulances or squad cars, for those of you living outside the . . .
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January 25, 2008 11:23 PM EST --
Trying to figure out the street numbering in St. Peter, MN, led Bug and I to unexpected discoveries. First we stumbled upon Minnesota's first Asylum for the Insane, then a co-op. Next we discovered . . .
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February 11, 2008 01:34 PM EST --
A deer head was the weekend's biggest surprise. It was tucked away in the freezer of the Sunshine House on campus at Northland College in Ashland, WI. Evidently it was the property of a sophomore biology . . .
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January 30, 2008 01:39 PM EST --
Do you believe in love at first sight? And I don't mean with a person, I mean an idea--a passionate, exciting, life-challenging thrill of an idea. I want to be a dog musher. I am in an acute state . . .
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November 05, 2006 08:19 AM EST --
I didn't gain too much weight while on the one week cruise. We did the walk on deck for the cure, 12 laps around the ship, where the one lap equals one quarter of a mile. The food was prepared . . .
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August 17, 2007 05:27 PM EDT --
Photo Essay Contest--
It was a cold, rainy evening—that’s not how you want the script for your first night in Paris to read.
We’d toured Notre Dame Cathedral which was in walking . . .
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January 03, 2008 08:54 PM EST --
All I knew growing up was that my mom liked to steal them. Apricots. She grew up in San Benito County, CA stealing green apricots from the orchards near her home. She had grand tummy-aches from them, . . .
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October 29, 2006 12:42 PM EST --
The directions on the Dramamine box said take one half to one hour before traveling. I took it about two and a half hours before the "scheduled" time. Why? I have no idea. It just . . .
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October 31, 2006 10:41 PM EST --
Having survived the Deutsches Museum, I then had to tackle Neuschwanstein Castle. My mother and I had made a puzzle once when I was in high school and it was this very castle. I just didn't . . .
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August 24, 2007 10:33 PM EDT --
There’s a magic in stained glass. I could almost say I was raised in churches. My parents took me to church for the first time when I was 3 days old. Dad is a minister, retired . . .
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October 27, 2006 08:50 PM EDT --
I got the green light from my dad. I signed up and excitedly told all my friends I was going to Europe!!! It was going to be great. Such a wonderful adventure! Most of my relatives had . . .
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September 30, 2006 05:08 PM EDT --
I am by nature, not a very physically active type of person. As a child I used to love to read and I always had my nose stuck inside a book. When I was a toddler my mother said I was never . . .
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July 09, 2007 01:44 AM EDT --
For most people -- but I think especially for Japanese Americans, who tend to come from very defined communities bound together by geographic roots, generational branchings and, for many, the shared trauma . . .
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August 10, 2007 09:56 PM EDT --
Photo Essay Contest--- I'm dedicating this photo essay to the man I love more than anything in this world. He loves to make my dreams come true. . . .
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November 21, 2007 01:32 AM EST --
I booked a CHEAP FLIGHT for December 6th (Walker's and my 3-month wedding anniversary), and I won't be coming home till some time in MAY (Walker, you don't need to remind me that this is a . . .
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August 25, 2006 02:14 AM EDT --
After a conversation by comment window with Kathryn Esplin-Oleski about her family history I began wondering if we on gather can "gather" our stories a bit?
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