Barbara Barton Sloane's Writings
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Mar.26.2013
The Westchester Guardian
Calm, peaceful, laid-back. In the movie “Being There”, Chance, the lead character, embodies all of these traits. There, in Bonaire, a sense of calm, peace and easy-living exists, as well. This Caribbean island is 50 miles north of Venezuela and 80 miles east of Aruba. Along with Aruba and Curacao, it forms the ABC islands of the Dutch Antilles. ...
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Feb.23.2013
“Quito was the first city to be designated a
UNESCO World Heritage Site”
The “Navel of the World” was the inauspicious and lackluster Quechua name old-time Quitenos called their city. I am delighted to report that Quito lacks luster no more! Today, this largest and best-preserved historic center of Latin America is a...
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Nov.24.2012
The Westchester Times Tribune
When you hear the word “cowboy,” what comes to mind? Rugged, strong, no-nonsense individual, right? So, Cowboy Poetry? Yes. The cowboy’s work is often lonely and isolated, a cycle of hard, dirty, dangerous jobs from the spring round-up through the cattle drive, the end of the trail and the return to the ranch. Surprising as it may seem, the cowboy, as with...
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Oct.04.2012
The Westchester Guardian
Ever consider that the road to happiness may not be a road at all? That point was driven home forcefully when I recently cruised four of the seven seas: Mediterranean, Aegean, Ionian and Tyrrhenian on the Silver Spirit, one of the vessels on Silversea Cruises, visiting ports from Malta to Elba and everything in between. Cruising the bottomless sea for ten...
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Oct.04.2012
The Westchester Guardian
Ever consider that the road to happiness may not be a road at all? That point was driven home forcefully when I recently cruised four of the seven seas: Mediterranean, Aegean, Ionian and Tyrrhenian on the Silver Spirit, one of the vessels on Silversea Cruises, visiting ports from Malta to Elba and everything in between. Cruising the bottomless sea for ten...
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Oct.04.2012
The Westchester Guardian
Ever consider that the road to happiness may not be a road at all? That point was driven home forcefully when I recently cruised four of the seven seas: Mediterranean, Aegean, Ionian and Tyrrhenian on the Silver Spirit, one of the vessels on Silversea Cruises, visiting ports from Malta to Elba and everything in between. Cruising the bottomless sea for ten...
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I'd rather burn out than rust out!”
About Barbara
Barbara Barton Sloane is the New York-based Travel Editor/Writer at The Westchester Guardian, a Contributing Travel Writer at The Huffington Post, The New York International Travel Writer at Examiner.com and the...