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  • Flagstaff and Sedona
    Plans | Southwest Roadtrip 2015

    Flagstaff and Sedona

    ByLane February 10, 2015June 6, 2024

    Day One is my arrival day; Day Two is my Grand Canyon day. On Day Three I make my way to Sedona, where I spend two nights. If I decide to take a flightseeing tour of the Grand Canyon, I’ll probably do that on the morning of Day Three. There’s one outfit that has helicopter…

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  • A day at the Grand Canyon
    Plans | Southwest Roadtrip 2015

    A day at the Grand Canyon

    ByLane February 4, 2015June 6, 2024

    My flight lands in Las Vegas at 10:35 a.m. Assuming an hour to get my luggage and my car and get out of the airport, I hope I can get to Hoover Dam by 12:30. They have guided tours, but depending on the crowds and the timing, I may skip the tour and just stop…

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  • A Change of Scenery
    Plans | Southwest Roadtrip 2015

    A Change of Scenery

    ByLane February 1, 2015June 6, 2024

    I have no idea why I didn’t consider this up front, but I realized yesterday that I could easily add Bryce Canyon National Park to my itinerary by skipping the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. So I posted a query on Facebook: with a choice between these two alternatives, which should I do. And…

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  • More sleeping
    Plans | Southwest Roadtrip 2015

    More sleeping

    ByLane January 23, 2015June 6, 2024

    I have reversed myself and decided to go ahead and book my lodging for the days I was going to play it by ear. There is something kind of thrilling about the spontaneity of not deciding where to stay until I get there, but weighing that against not having anywhere decent to stay, or being forced…

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  • Hoping for a good night’s sleep
    Plans | Southwest Roadtrip 2015

    Hoping for a good night’s sleep

    ByLane January 17, 2015June 6, 2024

    I love the idea of rolling into some new town at the end of a day of driving around sightseeing, and finding some quaint, charming inn or some cheesy, retro motor lodge or a unique, classic, old hotel and deciding spontaneously where to spend the night. But I also love the idea of having a place…

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  • My Southwest Road Trip
    Plans | Southwest Roadtrip 2015

    My Southwest Road Trip

    ByLane January 16, 2015June 6, 2024

    Southwest road trip?  Say what?!? Yes, after I did those posts about my Next #1 and Next #2 itineraries, I started thinking about a different Next. The Galapagos Islands. Wait, what am I talking about? What do the Galapagos Islands have to do with a southwest road trip?

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  • Next #2: Poland, Czech Republic,Slovakia, Germany
    Imagined Adventures

    Next #2: Poland, Czech Republic,Slovakia, Germany

    ByLane November 8, 2014June 6, 2024

    A: GdanskB: WarsawC: KrakówD: BratislavaE: Český KrumlovF: PragueG: DresdenH: LeipzigTotal distance: nearly 2000 km (1200 miles)

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  • Next #1: The Netherlands, Belgium, and eastern France
    Imagined Adventures

    Next #1: The Netherlands, Belgium, and eastern France

    ByLane August 31, 2014June 6, 2024

    I’ve been back from my last trip just about three months, and I’m itching to start planning the next trip. Since my last trip was mostly by car and covered a lot of different destinations, I am leaning toward something different: a handful of cities that are easily accessible by train and where I can spend…

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  • Ring Them Bells
    Balkans 2014

    Ring Them Bells

    ByLane May 24, 2014June 6, 2024

    Okay, so this is going to out me, as if it wasn’t too late, but I used to love the album “Liza with a Z,” a recording of the TV special of the same name, which was in turn a film of a live concert performance. It was directed by Bob Fosse, who won a Emmy.…

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  • Wrong way to Montenegro
    Balkans 2014

    Wrong way to Montenegro

    ByLane May 23, 2014June 6, 2024

    I went to Montenegro today. It was really lovely. But I went the wrong way, and it turned out to be the biggest disappointment of my entire trip.

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  • But where’s the pearl?
    Balkans 2014

    But where’s the pearl?

    ByLane May 23, 2014June 6, 2024

    It’s hard to believe at this time yesterday I was sitting on my balcony in Korčula savoring my last moments in paradise before getting on a boat for the two-hour cruise south to Dubrovnik. Now here I am, sitting in my very comfortable and very modernly renovated apartment, overlooking the old port of Dubrovnik and…

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  • Of course you love Korčula
    Balkans 2014

    Of course you love Korčula

    ByLane May 21, 2014June 6, 2024

    Who would think a day in a place as serene and lovely and idyllic as Korčula would also wear me out so completely? It’s strange, because I didn’t do anything other than wander around. I even took a nap in the middle of the day. And tonight I didn’t even have the energy to go out…

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