Follow I’m Ashore! Mermaids? To travel with two feet, yet on four wheels definitely should in-prison you socially somewhere. Fortunately for me, I was able to escape both forms of beneficial punishment. The Ashore hotel is located in a crevice of Seaside that puts you in the middle of prime beach front estate, yet only…
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Follow Crop Busting! October is upon us, and as this fall has seen a warmer sun than most, exploring the cave dwelling arenas of the world has never seen or looked more appealing. I have now found myself indulging in what I would like to call crop busting! While this season allows us all to…
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Follow March 15- 22, 2017 Wednesday – March 15, 2017 ROADDDD TRIPPPPP Call it Spring Break, call it an urge to hit the open road, or call it friend stalking. This past week my lova and I decided to head east to Colorado to see some friends and American acreage we were well past…
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Follow Blah Blah… History History tends to unavoidably inscribe its presence in one fashion or another. Whether it is found muffled in the voices of the old and wise, or illustrated in the accumulation of rings within an aging sturdy tree. From its spoken tokens, to its more visual ones, history can become a thing…
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Follow Nashville, Tennessee A.K.A … • “The Volunteer State” • “NashVegas” • “Athens of the South” • “Home of… Country/Bluegrass Music” • “House of… The Grand OLE Opry” January, FRIDAY THE 13th- Leaving for Nashville As superstitious individuals chose to lock themselves indoors and out of harms way, my mother and I were…
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Follow The year is 2017, the place is currently Portland, OR (my hometown), and my ambition is currently running on miscellaneous fumes from some of 2016’s spiraling obstacles. There are no specific bottled up wants and desires that I feel I have to take hold of, but there is a pictured vision that the year…
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Follow Saturday Dec. 10th- Boarding The port of Miami greeted us with warm rain and eager people ready to get their cruising on. As we made our way onboard the ship, pink zebra circles seemed to be the main thing of focus (they are plastered all over the walls). I learned later that The…
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Follow Hospitality The Mark, the building we stayed in (booked through VRBO), is located in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood (think high rises in a financial district). It houses a semi-formal restaurant & bar on the waterfront by the name of Crazy About You. We enjoyed dinner here our first night (Wednesday night the restaurant was packed…
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Follow Magic City I just recently learned that Miami is also known as the “Magic City.” And (don’t you dare follow in my footsteps and start a sentence like this…), of course I would like to know by what means. Perhaps it is the fact that the city itself is built atop swampy wet land…
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Follow Day 1: Some philosophical thought… If my hometown Portland, Oregon has taught me anything, it is that a city’s growth in this economy is more than doable. What I still have yet to side with is the rationality of it all. Does a city expand and renovate its interior under the premises that it…
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