Tag: travel
member name: Gary Gentry
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November 28, 2007 11:56 AM EST --
During the late 1970s I lived with my wife, Jeanne, and three kids in Marsa-el-Brega, Libya, about halfway between Tripoli and Benghasi. It was a large fenced enclave, about five miles across, . . .
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November 28, 2006 08:49 AM EST --
If you're a normal person, you probably never gave much thought to elephant urine. Neither had I until I encountered some on a narrow jungle game trail in . . .
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June 17, 2007 02:15 PM EDT --
In 1974, Arabs were still noble, the oil embargo against America had just lifted and Ali and I were young. Ali Gabriel el Kubti . . .
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March 29, 2006 12:05 AM EST --
Between March, 1983 and June, 1984 I lived with my family in Bontang on the east coast of Borneo six miles north of the equator, where I worked at the large LNG (Liquefied . . .
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May 04, 2007 02:56 PM EDT --
I have been in the Great Sahara desert in places where not a living thing can be seen in any direction. Not a weed, a blade of grass, a lizard nor any other creature. I have been on the ground . . .
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February 13, 2008 10:52 AM EST --
The Schuyler Mansion in Shuylerville, NY (just east of Saratoga), is the colonial home of a Revolutionary War general who fought . . .
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October 30, 2007 12:25 PM EDT --
Marsa-el-Brega was a small compound in the Libyan desert at the southern-most reach of the Gulf of Sirte. It was the terminal for Exxon's crude oil production and the location of one of . . .
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December 03, 2006 07:53 PM EST --
Breathing is not something you take for granted when you're under sixty feet of seawater. You hear every whisper and gurgle, you're aware of every breath, . . .
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June 15, 2006 12:19 AM EDT --
Winston Reina calls himself a man without a language. That's really ironic from a man who speaks five languages, but that's Winston . . .
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October 22, 2007 07:53 PM EDT --
Most skiers know the phenomenon called "whiteout" when snow and overcast diffuse the light and combine to eliminate all shadows, causing perspective and depth perception to disappear. . . .
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December 17, 2005 01:11 PM EST --
I just came across these photos of the lady who inspired this story. It prompted me to spotlight it, since I like it even though it only got 1 lone comment when it was published so long ago.
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February 08, 2006 07:54 AM EST --
Most skiers know the phenomenon called "whiteout" when snow and overcast diffuse the light and combine to eliminate all shadows, causing perspective . . .
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