Are We There Yet?

Category: Travel

  • Crazy People

    Crazy People

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    Beverly J Smith
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    Visions of a volleyball with a handprint-shaped face on it kept flashing through my mind. Every ten minutes huge cargo planes with the Fed-Ex logo on the side flew low overhead, their engines droning over any attempt at conversation.

  • Meet the Mayor

    Meet the Mayor

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    Beverly J Smith
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    “I’d like to meet the mayor. Have you seen her?” The store clerk behind the counter shrugged. “No. But you might check outside. She likes to roam around.” Talkeetna’s mayor is a cat. Well, actually, that depends on who’s telling the story.

  • Italy

    Italy

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    by

    Beverly J Smith
    in ,

    The beauty of the Italian countryside draws me back. I can see myself sitting on the terrazzo sipping chocolate and reading a good book. Or, maybe taking one of the trekking or mountain biking trails that lead from the hotel through the Valleriana, “Switzerland Pesciatina”— ten castella or characteristic medieval villages in the region.