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Palau’s Underwater World by Kate Dernocoeur, guest blogger While in Palau, I added to my lifetime hours of snorkeling by factors of ten. As a novice, I was in that delicious “beginner’s mind” world where everything seemed wondrous. Our guide, Ron Leidich, is a lifelong...
Speaking of Faraway Places: Palau (Part 1 of 2) by Kate Dernocoeur, guest blogger Imagine visiting a completely new world, something of which you have zero experience, and add the luxury of being guided by someone who knows it inside and out. Now travel by air about 8,000 miles...
by Linda Laughter, guest blogger. Having grown up in Houston, Texas, a trip to Galveston was our “go to place”. On this trip to see family and friends, we visited some old faithful experiences and some new places too. Galveston island boasts an amazing history which is told in its many...
by Kate Dernocoeur, Guest blogger It was an afterthought, really. During the drive to meet friends for The March in Washington D.C., there was extra time to do a little sightseeing. I noticed that Shanksville, PA, was on the way, so I thought I’d stop by to see that once obscure, now...
by Judy Bereza, guest blogger The setting: A conversation around our daughter and son-in-law’s dinner table in Los Angeles last fall. The topic of discussion: The Huntington. My husband and I were raving about it after visiting it earlier in the day, and a friend at the table, a local, said...
by Judy Bereza, guest blogger Fifty years ago my husband and I drove down the coast of California on Highway 1 San Francisco to Los Angelos. We were on our honeymoon, but that fact doesn’t excuse us from barely taking note of the entrance sign to Hearst Castle, a jaw dropping edifice...
Two of the DesignDestinations bloggers–Kate Dernocoeur and Peggy DePersia— marched in Washington last Saturday and have shared their experiences here. I hope you will find interesting and inspiring. I did. by Kate Dernocoeur, guest blogger Washington, D.C., January 21, 2017: In...
by Kate Dernocoeur, guest blogger It was a place that had languished on my “someday” list for decades. I finally got there last April: Yosemite! Home to that very big cliff, El Capitan, that I had stared at in photographs since my teens, and my longtime heart’s desire, the hovering, split...
by Peggy DePersia, guest blogger Tick-tock. Hmmmm? Zurich? In a world engulfed by ‘devices’ ready to give you the time of day with the swipe of a pad, it is somewhat wonderful to stroll through the commercial streets of a city so unabashedly about wrist watches and the wonder of hands moving...
by Peggy DePersia, guest blogger Heads up, history buffs, If you are one of those people who is captivated by the vast reaches of the ancient Roman Empire and its civilizing influences or the powerful impact of a historical figure such as Charlemagne or Charles the Great, also called, by some,...