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Review: Ybor City Walking Tour

Surrounded on all sides by Tampa, Ybor City is currently incarnated as a shopping and entertainment district. If you’re from Atlanta, think of it as a small-scale Atlantic Station, with bars and restaurants stretched along a picturesque avenue...

January 19, 2014
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Things Unseen

In Zochimilco, men with bulging biceps — the Mexican version of gondoliers, I suppose — use poles to push hundreds of pontoon boats up and down broad, manmade waterways. The boats are primarily loaded with extended Mexican families, who...

January 2, 2014
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Hola, Chica

When we travel, I often wander the streets with my Lumix camera at the ready — not up to my face, which draws attention, but in my hand, held at about waist height, snapping photos as I walk. Results vary, of course. But I loved this shot of...

January 2, 2014
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Discovering Mexico City 2013

Here’s a massive album of photos from the recent trip to Mexico City. So much food! So much color! So much going on! Feel free to browse around. Your online experience will be a lot like our real-world experience: some things you’ll pass...

January 1, 2014
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Off to Mexico
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Off to Mexico

I’ve stumbled up and down the wide, steep walkways atop the Great Wall. I’ve walked through root-choked temples in Cambodia’s Angkor Wat. I’ve rounded the chilly, isolated point of Cape Horn. I’ve dug a steaming, do-it...

December 28, 2013
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Mountain Shrine, Lopburi, Thailand
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Mountain Shrine, Lopburi, Thailand

Our friend, Mickey, asked, “There is a shrine in a cave in Lopburi. It is not visited often by tourists. Would you like to see it?” I said yes. Of course I said yes! You don’t travel half-way around the planet and turn down the...

October 12, 2013
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Coffee Shop Stop – Suphanburi
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Coffee Shop Stop – Suphanburi

This coffee shop in Suphanburi’s Thai Market has been in business in the same location for a century. Our delicious iced Thai coffee cost just 20 baht per person — or about seventy cents. (And it comes with a free Chinese tea chaser.)...

October 10, 2013
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