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An Adventure in Türkiye
Traveling- it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller… I landed in the United Arab Emirates in March last year to spend time with my daughter and my two grandsons who were living in Sharjah (one of the 7 Emirates) at the time. My daughter and I planned a trip to Turkey…
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Inversions and conversions
The event was advertised as “The Big Chill” at the small Yoga studio that I attend. It was described as an enticing hour and a half of true relaxation. It was to be held late on a Saturday afternoon. I arrived with only 5 minutes to spare. My reasoning was that 5 minutes was…
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Emphasis on Memphis
Our first introduction to Memphisians was the Hotel staff at the Marriot’s SpringHill Suites. They were helpful and delightful people. The walk down Main Street to dinner was interrupted more than once with still pleasant but some of the more needy population. Dinner at BB King’s Blues Club was appropriately populous and pulsing. After…
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God and guns
I am not referring to God with large biceps but there is certainly a correlation between strength of emotion about both these topics in the southern states of the US of A. In Georgia, Tennessee and Mississippi I spied odd combinations and contradictions: Conservative appearances of people – to the point where I needed…
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Are two beds beter than one?
Having travelled around the US and Mexico just recently and other places in the world over the years I have seen the trend of having two double or two queen sized beds in rooms become very popular. I am confused about this and wonder at the reasons for this. Have hotels seen a surge…
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Delta Blues and Reds
Clarksdale was not visibly alive with the beat of music or even human hearts the day we visited the Delta Blues Museum. It was a cool and dull afternoon and the view of the street where we stood seemed to be in keeping with the weather and defer to its music origins. We wandered…
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Aaaaaamen
Anyone who has heard Gospel singing in church might totally understand why Elvis was inspired. I was lucky enough to do this and I didn’t have to sit outside. As part of our music tour we were given the choice of attending the Pilgrim Missionary Baptist church for their Sunday service. The tour guide…
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Love him tender…
When the name Elvis Presley is mentioned I still visualise a young, attractive man in fitting shirts and pants who had exceptional charm which managed to have every woman (but the one he wanted) falling over themselves and on him. He exhibited an amazing array of expertise in fields such as car, motorcycle and…
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Name that crooner…
Now I am not saying that I dislike any of these names (and frankly, I am not really saying I like them either). Yes, yes, I know that I am in the states and I am in country and western music territory and that there may be some names that are simply reductions of…
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Here’s a tip….
We left Atlanta rather hastily on the first morning of our tour and it was a tad disappointing that we got to see so little of the place. However, we looked forward to Nashville, Tennessee. Dinner that night was at The Wild Horse Saloon where live music and line dancing are accompaniments to dinner.…