“Hello, I am in room 425, and I am stuck in the bathtub.” I played this conversation over in my head as I tried to get out of a bathtub in Redondela, Spain. After fifteen kilometers in seven hours, our
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Lessons I learned traveling with a friend for fourteen days in Barcelona, Spain
“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain My friend Ruth Ann and I are still friends. We were together
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I wish I could be a male when I travel.
I wish I could be a male when I travel. I am sixty-five years old and travel solo. These are my personal experiences and might not apply to all female solo travelers. If I were a male: I could
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7 Reasons Not to Book a Packaged Tour if You are Traveling Solo
Four of us are walking the Camino de Santiago, the Portuguese Way, in March. The group we hooked up with gave us a reasonable price which includes hotel accommodations, breakfast every day, two dinners, and transportation of our luggage to
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What is American Culture?
Culture affects our views of reality. It provides the mental concepts by which people perceive, interpret, analyze, and explain events in the world around them. JAMES G. PEOPLES What is American culture? Japanese culture, which I absorbed into
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Why are bunnies a significant part of Easter?
Why are bunnies a significant part of Easter? Easter is upon us once again, and we are being bombarded by chocolate bunnies, chocolate eggs, and dyed egg kits. What do bunnies and eggs have to do with Easter? It all
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My Catholic Lenten Childhood
I am a six-year-old little girl with a folded piece of Kleenex bobby-pinned to the top of my head, sitting in my family church pew. I always forget to bring my chapel veil. My father gets us up every Sunday
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St Valentine: The Patron of Lovers
Who is St Valentine? Was he a temple priest who lived in the 1400s and beheaded by Claudius II for helping Christian couples get hitched? At the time, men were serving in the Roman army and were not allowed to
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Six Ways to Celebrate the Feast of The Three Kings
Christmas is over. You undressed your tree by taking off the ornaments and strings of lights and placing them in their designated plastic containers labeled “Christmas decorations.” You took your tree and put it in a “tree bag” or box
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Seven Candy Cane Facts or Fiction?
“We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup.” Will Ferrell’s Buddy the Elf Seven candy cane facts or fiction? In 1670 a choirmaster at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany was