Tag: travel
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Quick Escape
Come to think of it,don’t we all need a quick escape? Our friends Chris and Christie have three boys. Brennan and Marshall were in middle and high school and Connor was an infant when we began regular weekend trips to coastal Alabama. Our first trip was prompted by an exchange-student program that Brennan’s school participated…
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Heroism in Kilbaha
Come to think of it, everyone wants a hero in the family tree Admit it! You want a hero in your family tree. Someone “out where the lightning splits the sea … ” That’s how the Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler belted out her definition in “Holding Out for a Hero,” in the 1984 film Footloose.…
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Listening to Strength
Come to think of it, uncommon strength is often born under duress. Somewhere on Generals Highway, above the breath-defying switchbacks that rise more than 2,000 feet into Sequoia National Park from Hospital Rock, and beyond the intersection of Big Trees Trail and Little Deer Creek, I was overwhelmed by the massive dignity of a singular…