An Unmapped Route: A Hiker's Blog

Category: Travel

  • Photo Friday: Ha Long Bay

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    Junks awaiting tourists at Bo Hon Island, Ha Long Bay, Vietnam We had arrived on Bo Hon Island to see the caves. The subterranean attraction is a draw for tourists, lit with multicolored lights, but I was more interested in the all the other aspects of the journey. The junks, the people and the landscape.…

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  • The Nobska Light

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    Nobska Lighthouse, Wood’s Hole Cape Cod Massachusetts. The motorcycle ride out to the lighthouse had worked out perfectly. I arrived not long after sunrise, in the fall season . I could see the ferry leaving Wood’s Hole for Martha’s Vineyard, but I was far from the throng of tourists here. I doubted that any were…

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    a sandy path in the foreground center of the image is bordered by green ground cover. The path leads to a white lighthouse and keepers house with a red roof. The sky is overcast at dawn with a faint glow of the rising sun.

  • Friday’s Photo: 04.25.25

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    Paris Commute: Paris, France 2012 I glanced out the bus window. She was moving. I was moving! The world was waking up.

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    A black and white image of a woman riding a bicycle along the River Seine, Paris France on a foggy morning.

  • Feeling Congested?

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    Just some random thoughts as I scroll through the news. In the city, their were cars, but not like home. Scooters? Thousands of them. No catalytic converters on these rides. I thought, it looks like a walkers paradise. No chance of being run down here way out in the country. No cars, the air has…

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