Ever since I was a kid I’ve wanted to go to a bullfight. I remember being 13 and my brother bringing a pair of banderillas home for me as a gift from a trip to Portugal. I hung those things on my wall like a trophy. They were cool. Being 13 and a city kid from New York, I had no idea what they really were used for. They were just cool. please continue
Vacations are supposed to be fun and relaxing. I don’t, typically, have a problem going from work-mode to let’s-have-fun-and-relax-mode. This was different.
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Well, we arrived yesterday, but not with my wife’s luggage. We did the usual fill-out-the-missing-luggage form but still haven’t gotten it a day later. Once we got the hotel, we had to go searching for a bathing suit, cover-up and flip-flops… how else do you get comfortable in Aruba?
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Well, maybe not the road but we will be going somewhere. This time it’s the lovely, friendly, sunny, windy and, sometimes, crowded island of Aruba.
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Maybe I’m just a closet romantic. Maybe I’m a bloodthirsty savage. Maybe I just love a good suit of armor. I don’t know what it is, but I just love castles and all they bring to mind. There’s nothing better than having your mind just drift back in time to when men were men and, well, lets’ just get on with it…
Sunsets are like underwear — everyone has his favorite, and they change every day. In my case, there’s a handful of favorites — some are red, some are blue, some are even purplish. They almost all glow. I like glowing. Call me fickle. Call me strange. Just call me when there’s a sunset. I’m not alone, and I know that.
Here are some of my favorite ones from around the world. Enjoy.
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Mystery. Suspense. Intrigue. Beauty. There are just some of the thoughts that come to mind when I see doors and windows along my journeys. Not all doors and windows — just the ones that captivate me. Clearly.
The next time you get out and about be aware of the doors and windows around you. What lurks behind the closed ones? Why is this one open?
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A path. Sometimes we can see where it’ll take us and sometimes we can only guess. Either way, taking it is an experience that we should embrace. That’s the best thing about travel — you don’t always know what’s over the next hill or around the next bend. We might have an idea, but we won’t know for sure until we get there. Go ahead, use your imagination. It’s okay to get out of your comfort zone. Anticipation. Liberation. Exhilaration. Live It!
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When Americans visit Italy we tend to stay to the time-tested hot-spots — Rome, Florence, Milan, Amalfi Coast, Venice. Maybe, just maybe, we’ll branch out and visit the Cinque Terre or take a guided tour of a vineyard in Tuscany. When I mentioned to friends that we were going to visit Puglia, they looked at me like I was crazy. Why there, they asked? This is why…
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