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Galveston Rising: A Photo Essay

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Port of Galveston

Galveston, Texas, once the New York of the Southeast, is struggling to regain its much deserved prominence among America’s ocean side retreats.

 

Galveston: Birthplace of “Juneteenth”
Galveston Beach, (lower right) Jamaica Beach area of Galveston island
Stately Oak trees once shaded all of Galveston but Ike’s tidal surge killed most of the trees. A city art project has turned dozens of trunks into fanciful sculptures. This one (lower right) is in front of the fire station. (upper right) house in the 1930’s Cedar Lawn district

The free ferry service (both car & pedestrian) to Bolivar Peninsula across the Ship Channel and Galveston Bay

 

 

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Teaching, Cooking, Writing and Travel

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“I was born with “wanderlust” according to the Minneapolis Multi Phasic Personality Inventory, a psych test I took in my 20′s.”

A great web site, www.teachingtraveling.com has just published an interview article they requested that I write:

“I’m a teacher. If I can teach hundreds of kids, I can teach myself.”
Parque National Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
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Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks: Days of Food and Wine

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From the moment you drive across the 1931 Bagnell Dam you know you’ve entered a different world.

Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks: Days of Food and Wine

Read more at Global Writes, the journal of the International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association

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The Black Trumpet, Spring Lake, NJ: Gourmet Lunch on a Budget

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The Black Trumpet’s lunch in tony Spring Lake, New Jersey, is oceanfront fine dining at a fast food price.

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Spring Lake: New Jersey’s Irish Festival on the Riviera

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Spring Lake, NJ, known as the “Irish Riviera,” goes all things Gallic in mid-June – but no green beer.

 

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Kansas City, MO: Blues, BBQ and Baklava

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Kansas City: this gateway to the west kept on the move gathering an international mix of cultures, food, jazz and blues defying mid-west stereotypes.

 

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Kansas City: Missouri’s Modern Day Phoenix

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Missouri’s Kansas City is undergoing a revival that’s attracting businesses back from the suburbs and especially from that “other” Kansas City.

 

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Kansas City, Missouri: Historic Westport

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Westport @ 39th street – just after the Joplin tornado, May 2011

 

Kansas City’s Historic Westport District is the true gateway to the west.

 

 

 

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Columbia, Missouri: A Zou for the Lively Arts

Be it jewelry, painting, film, music, writing or culinary, 100,000 Columbians enjoy a surprisingly rich artistic life – and a lively “Zou” of 50,000 students.

Beetle Bailey and Me
Thomas Jefferson’s original tomb stone at the University of Missouri
Sycamore’s Missouri Legacy Beef Tenderloin
University of Missouri
Organic Beet Salad at the Main Squeeze Natural Foods and Juice Bar

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Great dining experiences in Missouri

Great dining experiences in Missouri: the heartland of America has more to offer than just being “that empty space” one flies over from coast to coast.

 

The Lake of the Ozarks

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