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Syncopated Family Travel – The Grand Canyon, The Rio Grande, and Grand Theft Auto
Due to its proximity to the Grand Canyon, Williams is a thriving cluster of motels and tourist dives.
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Syncopated Family Travel: The Return Home on Route 66
Each turn of the mother road holds shuttered motels forever locked at “no vacancy”. In those now boarded up rooms, men and women once held each other with the thrill…
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Volos, Greece – Hotels and Guesthouses on the beach or in the mountains
Hotel options in Volos are not that great but the surrounding villages offer some incredible boutique, beach, or mountain village experiences.
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Ensuring Your Home Is A Perfect Place To Relax
Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay During this particular time – many of us are spending much more time at home than we usually would. Travel isn’t the best idea…
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Syncopated Family Travel: Yes, I’m a Mouseketeer at Disneyland!
To quote the Flight of the Conchords, “I’m not crying, it’s just raining on my face.” This is heaven.
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Book Review: A Month of Italy – Rediscovering the Art of Vacation
there is much more to this book than the adventures and misadventures of an American family in Italy – instead, this book is about finding the balance in our lives…
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Syncopated Family Travel – Los Angeles – Beaches, Bums, and Cults
A machete wielding maniac in a hockey mask approaches our car ….
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10 Wonders of the World to Add To Your Bucketlist
The wonders of the world have been presented in various media with different listings, but there is a common agreement regarding seven of them, featuring in the “the 7 wonders…
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Syncopated Family Travel – Leaving Las Vegans
As we head west we make a brief side visit to the City of Sin to take my daughter to Veggee Delight. I’m a little worried as the GPS leads…
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Syncopated Family Travel – Bryce Canyon Utah
Rested, sort-of, fed, definitely, we pack up the car once again, quickly, and set out eagerly to explore more of what Utah has to offer.
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Sypil Magnesia aka Tantalus – The Magic Mountain of Manisa
My travel to Sypil Magnesia, rarely visited by tourists, but also known as Tantalus.
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Syncopated Family Travel: Idaho Sucks
“I fucked up that sonofabitch real good,” drawls one of the dusty men, sporting a mighty handlebar mustache.
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My Favorite Travel Adventures of 2011 – Flashback to A Wonderful Year of Travel
2011 was a great year for me in terms of travel, family, and work. While there were a huge number of experiences to choose from, here are my top ten…
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Bond. Commercial James Bond that Sucks Skyfall Balls
The Buddha said it best – desire leads to suffering but it was someone else that said great anticipation leads to great disappointment. I’m not sure who that was, but…
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Syncopated Family Travel – Yellowstone, Chinese Tourists, and God Damned Bison
I haven’t felt this inadequate since freshman year gym class. Yellowstone is a nature photographer’s wet dream.
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Rome, Italy – Hostels and Boutique Hotels
Rome is filled with dumpy hostels and dive hotels – here are some of the best and a few of the worst.
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Syncopated Family Travel – Red Lodge Montana, GPS Disasters, and Never Turning Back
“Maybe we should turn back,” suggests my wife, “see if there is a hotel or something somewhere else.” However, I’m too tired to admit defeat.
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Sapiens by Yuval Noah Hariri – An Honest Review
I just finished reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Hariri. In my life, I’ve read many thousands of books. This is the one I wish everyone would read. Seriously. It had…
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Memory and Travel – Reflections on Bergamo and kindness to strangers
Travel and memory don’t always work together.
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Syncopated Family Travel – Mt. Rushmore, Sandwich Artists, and Injun Killers
We bypass the lot and hang out of the car window, wildly clicking the shutter gangsta style as we do a drive by shooting of the four presidents.
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Travel Writing – A Dangerous Business
Travel writing is a dangerous business. No doubt about it. Most of all, it’s dangerous for your bank account! Of course, that’s just writing in general. The travel part…
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Syncopated Family Travel: Wall Drug and the Dakota Badlands Food Poisoning
I’ll spare the details about what happens next, but it involves me defiling a national treasure. If there is a hell, I’m sure this will not bode well for me…
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Syncopated Family Travel: Channeling Laura Ingalls Wilder
“I can’t have another DUI,” she protests as she chomps down her beer-battered olives and slithers off of her bar stool.
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La Casa Verde: A Great Place for (Honest) Information in Baños Ecuador
In Baños, the internet isn’t a main mode of communication. The best maps are hand drawn and photocopied with scrawling notes. Business transactions can be low tech. People buy, sell,…
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Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab – An Honest Review
As a geek, a sci-fi lover, a futurist, a technology lover, a person with a fascination for humans and what makes us tick, and an investor – I am constantly…
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