Category: Stories
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Once-In-A-Lifetime Travel Experiences-When I Win The Lottery
Here are some of the travel trips that were auctioned off a little while ago at the Explorers Club annual dinner. They are once-in-a-lifetime experiences, but very,very expensive. No, I didn’t even try to bid on any of them : 1. Three Day “Super Aviator” Submersible Underwater Flight Course Description: Test fly the two-person revolutionary…
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Leave My Souvenirs Alone! De-cluttering Advice I Can’t Follow.
Especially now that Spring is here, I think that de-cluttering my home is a great idea. However, there’s one recent suggestion that I just can’t follow. In a recent article, I read that, in order to save space, I should take pictures of all my travel souvenirs and then throw them away. Throw them away?…
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Unique Food Served at the Explorers Club Annual Dinner
The food at the Explorers Club’s annual dinner wasn’t as exotic this time as the years before. There were no scorpians, honey dipped tarantula or cerviche eyeballs as before. One of the reasons, I was told, was that the BBC ran an expose last year about the bugs that were prepared by boiling them alive.…
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What’s the Best Way to Get To JFK?
I just received a comment from someone who has got a great gift for travel-she’s already figured out much of her European trip for five. But she still has one big question to solve: So – I’ve purchased our plane tickets and think I did really well. we’re flying JFK to London via Geneva (Swissair)…
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On The Cusp of Infinity-The 106th Explorers Club Annual Dinner
I’ve written before that I’ve wanted to become a member of the Explorers Club in Manhattan since I was a child and that I was able fulfill that dream last year. Last Saturday was the 106th annual dinner at the Waldorf Astoria, and the theme was exploring the universes out there. As before, people from…
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Frank Sinatra’s Songs in “Come Fly Away”
My husband, Robert, and I got the chance to see the Frank Sinatra-Twyla Tharp musical, Come Fly Away which is now playing at Manhattan’s Marquis Theater. I had gotten a great deal on the center orchestra tickets and, although we were in row W, we could see very well. This production, was a bit different…
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The NYS Family Health Care Decisions Act Becomes Law
I know that this is not a travel topic, but it is so worth reporting. The Family Health Care Decisions Act has finally been enacted into New York State law. This provision establishes guidelines that provide families and legal guardians, in consultation with medical professionals, the legal right to make critical health care and end-of-life…
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Men And Their Model Yachts
While my family and I were in San Diego, we came across a sport that I hadn’t heard of before-model yacht racing. We met up with Bob Dunlap, IOM Fleet Captain of the South Bay Model Yacht Club, who explained the sport and introduced us to many of the competitors. Men from all over the…
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Glass Flowers at The Harvard Museum Of Natural History
A little while ago, my husband, Robert, and I traveled to Cambridge, MA to catch up with some childhood friends of his. He’s a NYC boy, but he and his pals moved on to different parts of the country, and Cambridge turned out to be the best place to get together this time. Before meeting…
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SeaWorld in San Diego, California
My kids loved going to SeaWorld in San Diego over the February break. The place was much less crowded than I expected because the children there didn’t have a winter vacation. I guess they don’t need to get away from all of that sunshine! Remember, when you’re going anywhere, to always ask if there’s a…
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Travel Gal Kim Swidler 