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Places I Saw Before I Couldn't: India Wildlife Safari
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Places I Saw Before I Couldn't. Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Video slideshow with narratives and background music available for viewing at. Http:/ www.frankjmiles.net/. My wonderful experience in India was sometimes mixed with cultural overload and claustrophobia. My primary mission was to see the Tiger and the Taj Mahal. Mission accomplished! Some may ask: What is a big difference between an Indian Wildlife Safari and an African Safari? We had a break midway between Nagpur to Kanha. The Banyan Tree is the...
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Places I Saw Before I Couldn't: Colorado Canyons Near Moab
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Places I Saw Before I Couldn't. Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Colorado Canyons Near Moab. Video slideshow with narratives and background music available for viewing at. Http:/ www.frankjmiles.net/. Towering 2,000 feet above the Colorado River, Dead Horse Point State Park provides a breathtaking panorama of Canyonlands’ sculptured pinnacles, buttes and canyons. According to one legend, cowboys rounded up wild mustangs in the narrow neck of this land and they were left to die. A shadow was seen on a rock formatio...
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Places I Saw Before I Couldn't: Napa Valley
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Places I Saw Before I Couldn't. Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Video slideshow with narratives and background music available for viewing at. Http:/ www.frankjmiles.net/. California’s Old Faithful is one of the few geysers in the world that perform at regular intervals. The 350-degree water shoots approximately 60 feet into the air for three or four minutes. Repeated performances are an average of 40 minutes apart. St Helena is a quaint town with excellent shopping. Posted by Frank J. Miles at 4:19 PM.
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Places I Saw Before I Couldn't: Seattle ~ British Columbia
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Places I Saw Before I Couldn't. Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Video slideshow with narratives and background music available for viewing at. Http:/ www.frankjmiles.net/. A plaque on a building on a side street was a glimpse of the elegance of the Savoy Hotel, one of Seattle’s greatest hotels built in 1906. The aluminum castings captured the beauty of the decorative painted plaster relief sculptures that topped the capitals inside the hotel’s first restaurant. September 25 Vancouver, British Columbia. View my co...
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Places I Saw Before I Couldn't: New Zealand ~ Sydney
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Places I Saw Before I Couldn't. Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Video slideshow with narratives and background music available for viewing at. Http:/ www.frankjmiles.net/. On Friday, February 16, 2007 we flew from Dallas to Los Angeles and then boarded a 12-1/2 hour international flight to New Zealand. Because of the international dateline, we arrived on Sunday February 18 in Auckland. Afterwards, we took a two and one-half hour domestic flight to Queenstown on the South Island. Upon arrival at Queenstown airport...
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Places I Saw Before I Couldn't: North Pole
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Places I Saw Before I Couldn't. Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Video slideshow with narratives and background music available for viewing at. Http:/ www.frankjmiles.net/. The geographic North Pole is defined as 90 degrees north in latitude and all directions are south. The geographic North Pole is different than the magnetic North Pole. Since 1831, the magnetic North Pole moved from northern Canada into the Arctic Ocean. The magnetic north pole is estimated to reach Siberia in about 50 years. Murmansk is the onl...
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Places I Saw Before I Couldn't: Southern Africa
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Places I Saw Before I Couldn't. Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Video slideshow with narratives and background music available for viewing at. Http:/ www.frankjmiles.net/. The first stop at Matjiesfontein was not far from Cape Town. The pronunciation of this town’s name doesn’t match its spelling. It is pronounced My Keys Fontaine . Oh well, it used to be a Victorian resort town. Now it is a charming train stop. All cats are solitary animals except the lion. Lions live in a social group known as a pride, whic...
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Places I Saw Before I Couldn't: Chesapeake Bay Cruise
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Places I Saw Before I Couldn't. Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Video slideshow with narratives and background music available for viewing at. Http:/ www.frankjmiles.net/. The American Star is a new small ship with a maximum of 100 passengers. There were 83 passengers on our cruise. Our Chesapeake Bay cruise was relaxing and historically entertaining. The Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge protects, preserves and manages wildlife and habitat on 27,000 acres of wetlands, fields and forests. Dating back to the 17t...
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Places I Saw Before I Couldn't: Holland to Switzerland
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Places I Saw Before I Couldn't. Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Video slideshow with narratives and background music available for viewing at. Http:/ www.frankjmiles.net/. In the afternoon of our arrival, we enjoyed a canal boat cruise through some of Amsterdam's charming waterways. Lunch was served aboard. Amsterdam has 1281 bridges. We cruised by Amsterdam's NEMO, a green building shaped like a ship, which is the largest science center in the Netherlands. Aalsmeer is where growers auction 20 million cut flowers...
