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Aug.31.2012
Female lions are more predatory than males. They will stalk you, loan you nothing, not even a chance. No matter how beautiful they are, the last things you will see are fangs and claws.
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Aug.02.2012
My family and I just returned from a week in Hana, on the eastern coast of Maui. Hana is probably best known for the road leading to it –a series of heart-stopping one-lane bridges and sheer vertical drops to the ocean below. But tourists who drive to Hana and back in a day from resorts on the...
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Jul.10.2012
I’ve always made a habit of looking in the opposite direction from where everyone else is looking. Sometimes what’s behind is a lot more interesting than what is in front.
Once, in the Serengeti, while everyone else focused their binoculars on a small flock of Meyer’s parrots, I turned...
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Jun.28.2012
My guest today called in from Italy, which at this moment in time is in full swing with a national party after the Italian soccer team beat Germany in the semi-finals of the European Cup. As Barbara Conelli my guest said the country has gone totally mad, they are like Spain who they now play...
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Mar.21.2012
In 1999, near Kruger National Park, I spent a day spent following the paw prints of lions.
Six would-be trackers and two rangers named Syd and Bernardo clump together and stare at a set of padded marks in the sand. "Which way?" Syd asks. We point variously in the same...
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Mar.10.2012
Something rustles in the underbrush. My sleepy senses come to full alert. It’s an ancient world out there, full of primitive memories storied at the bottom of our brains.
My fears are primitive, hard-wired into the base of my brain from the time when humans were prey to huge...
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Dec.28.2011
Outside my window shaggy shadows move among the firs. An immense shape assembles and disassembles in the wind.
Fourteen thousand years ago, mastodons and mammoths roamed North America, grazed alongside the buffalo. Paleolithic peoples followed the woolly giants across the Bering Bridge...
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Jun.04.2011
Do you remember when you first fell in love? Or the day you first glimpsed something you knew would change your life forever?
That happened to me two decades ago today. June 5, 1991. My 22nd birthday. Two weeks out of college, I awoke in New York City with a hangover, stumbled to JFK with a...
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May.25.2011
May is Women's Motorcycling Month, and because I'm a writer, and a traveler, and a motorcyclist, and a feminist, and I want women to be recognized as a powerhouse in powersports, I've been posting a profile a day of a woman in the motorcycling industry who is inspirational, influential, and...
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Apr.20.2011
I am honored to be the featured writer on the North American Travel Journalist Association www.natja.org home page. I have been a member of NATJA for over decade. It is a wonderful organization providing a platform and resources for expert, or budding travel writers alike. They help writers get...
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