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The Red Frame Journey

terryodee — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:20:14 -0500

I have to say this is, basically, a re-hash of a post from my Red Frame Journey blog at blogspot.com. My reason for re-writing it here is to say that am due to start my new project in the next week or so. It bears the same name as my primary blog;

'The Red Frame Journey'.

Red Frame is a people...

The Price of Travel - Sapa, Vietnam

Dane — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:58:43 -0500

This is a feature from the San Antonio Express-News that appeared in Jan. 08

The Price of Travel

The pitfalls and payoffs of mountainous Vietnam.

Dane...

A Curious Girl in the City

aki.claire — Thu, 3 Apr 2008 23:23:17 -0500

NOTE; I wrote this about a year ago for my creative writing class.
(Assignment: Descriptive and meaningful memoir)
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New York City—
The City of Romance? Of Opportunity? Perhaps both.
But sadly, she wasn’t...

Croatia has a hero.

Gerard Ward — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:56:23 -0500

I couldn't quite figure out who that commander was on these posters around Croatia. My only guess was that he was considered a hero amongst the Croatian and Serbian war of '95. You never see a hero being advertised around Perth. Our heroes are the unsung ones. Like parents, good friends, or the ice-cream...

Meru Culture- Kenya

SHALIN — Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:09:40 -0500

Our volunteer work to SHALIN in Meru has started well. One thing we
have started in collaboration with Meru Museum is a program on plastic
bags. The program aims at highlighting the benefits of traditional
containers compared to plastic containers used widely nowadays. The
pupils that will visit...

Hitchhiking Down-Under

Mike Szymanski — Sun, 7 Jan 2007 04:25:50 -0600

How can you spend $5 on a weekend trip to Fraser Island, $45 on a weeklong trip to Cairns and make 20 new friends in the process? HITCHHIKE!

I know what most of you are thinking and even my ears ring with the words of my mother. “Hitchhiking equals a torturous death.” My original understanding...