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One week ago I took off from Orlando, Florida on a six day ‘Drive out of Florida’ one way car rental at $11.00 per day all-in from Costco. I covered just over 1,100 miles by the time I turned in the rental car at Knoxville TYS Airport on Tuesday afternoon. Over the next few weeks…
Rudyard Kipling wrote the words “He travels the fastest who travels alone” in poetry. Bruce Springsteen wrote these words in the song Valentine’s Day, one of my favorite Bruce tunes, as the last song on ‘Tunnel of Love’ album. They say he travels fastest who travels alone But tonight I miss my girl mister tonight…
Victoria has a problem with vehicle gridlock. Vancouver Island is a little larger than Los Angeles County, Orange County and San Diego County combined, yet half of the more than 760,000 people on the island live in the metropolitan Victoria area around the capital city of British Columbia in the southeastern corner of the island.…
Tofino is the end of the road on the west coast of Vancouver Island. This town on the western edge of Canada and the eastern edge of the Pacific Ocean is the launching point for wilderness adventure on truly remote islands in the Clayoquot Sound reached by seaplane or boat. Tofino is also known as…
by Ric Garrido
Spirit Airlines $34.50 sale today is the second day of a two-day sale offering flights at $34.50 one way. The promotion is advertised as $69 round trip sale, but you do not have to book a round trip ticket. There are specific routes and dates in April and May with this discount airfare. Sale ends…
As I was writing this piece, I realized that I have spent the last three Christmas holidays at beach resort locations in Miami and San Diego soaking up the sun in warm air with temperatures in the 70s and 80s. California is a big state with 1,000 miles of coastline. My home in Monterey is…
Yesterday when I wrote about Holiday Inn Express Port Hueneme, I had not yet been outside the hotel in daylight to check out the surroundings. The hotel website shows 48 photos and I started clicking through them. Photo #2 states “Universal Studios near Holiday Inn Express Port Hueneme”. Google Maps shows Universal Studios Hollywood is…
The Bergen line to Oslo across Norway is considered one of the great rail journeys of the world. It is about a 7.5 hour journey for travel from Bergen to Oslo, 500 km by train, and for my journey to Voss by bus. The ticket is as low as 249 NOK (about $40 USD) if…
Last month I passed through the Outer Banks island of Ocracoke, North Carolina for about eight hours. A 7:00am Cedar Island ferry ride to the village of Ocracoke where I stayed several hours, followed by a fourteen-mile long island road drive to reach the other seaport ferry for transportation to Hatteras Island and the continuation…
There are no large national monuments or even a small sculpture on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina in memory of the captive West African slaves who passed through this primary gateway of the Middle Passage into the American colonies from 1707 to 1799. Charleston, South Carolina was the wealthiest city in the American Colonies in the…
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