Category: 2016
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2016 Florida (3)
Travels with Dick and KarenFlorida, Part 3 The Everglades(yellow line on map) First stop was the famous fruit and vegetable stand just outside the Everglades National Park. Then south to the park’s Flamingo campground at the very southern tip of Florida Where vultures instead of jays patrolled the grounds New Zealand has similar signs about…
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2016 Florida (2)
Travels with Dick and KarenFlorida Part 2 The Keys and Miami(red line on map) The Overseas Highway is the only path to the Keys. The first section’s walls are painted an unexpected bright aqua. (How Florida!) Our first stop was Key Largo where we were joined by our friends Mary and Jeremy Keller, ceramic artists…
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2016 Florida (1)
Travels with Dick and KarenFlorida, Part 1 Rockets and Manatees(blue line on map) From Seattle’s Jan 31st overcast morning we finally escaped the clouds when we reached the Cascades, near Mount Stuart. Thence to arrive on a not-so-sunny late afternoon in southern Florida. We stayed over the rainy night in Miami’s South Beach neighborhood at…
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2018 Costa Rica (3a): orchids
Costa Rica, Part 3aExtra Orchids ofJardin des Orquideasin Santa Elena Allujuela Cachi Monteverde (3a extra orchids) Guayabo
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2016 London (7)
Travels with Dick and KarenLondon, Part 7Main Museums (most visited first): Victoria & Albert Museum(arts and crafts through time) Natural History Museum(geology, biology) Science Museum(modern technology) British Museum(archeology) Victoria and Albert Museum: (search its collections yourself) There is the usual display of Greek and Roman artifacts carted off wholesale, similar to the Louvre and the…
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2016 London (6)
Travels with Dick and KarenLondon, Part 6Chelsea Physic Garden andChelsea Flower Show This page covers two days of our trip. The first to the Chelsea Physic Garden was early in the month, the second to the Chelsea Garden Show was near the end. Both involved a walk due south to just shy of the banks…
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2016 London (5)
Travels with Dick and KarenLondon, Part 5Further afield:By train to Reading to see familyBy Tube to Kew to see gardens One of Karen’s nieces works in Reading, so we arranged to meet them there.We started our Saturday journey to Reading by first taking the bus. After a bit of walking around the block we found…
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2016 London (3)
Travels with Dick and KarenLondon, Part 3Bus to the Tower of London, walk back via Tate Modern and Temple Church … and a few other places found along the way.(Although some guidebooks suggest similar walks can be done “in a few hours”, only the very time- pressed would try this in one day. It actually…
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2016 London (2)
Travels with Dick and KarenLondon, Part 2Thames River Trip to the Barrier and Greenwich For a variety of reasons, we wanted to visit Greenwich, the site of the Royal Observatory and (ex-)home of “Greenwich Mean Time” (GMT), the historical master clock from which all time zones refer. We took this trip relatively early in our…
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2016 London (1)
Travels with Dick and KarenLondon, Part 1May 2016Settling in & exploringthe local area (the star on the map is where we’re staying and the red line is the –very– approximate path of the ramble) Why London? Two years ago we did an “everything but London” UK driving tour, vowing to come back someday for a…