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Monday, October 13, 2008

Fishing for Shiners by the Lot on the Bay

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When we fished for snappers, with long bamboo poles across the street from our house on South Oyster Bay we always used frozen spearing.  I ...
Friday, October 10, 2008

Volvo Ocean Race

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It used to be called the Whitbread Round the World Race.  Sponsored by a brewery, a big ketch called Steinlager skippered by a kiwi - Sir P...
Thursday, October 2, 2008

Steve Fossett - Voyager

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A blog called Voyages must pay tribute to the premier adventurer of our age - Steve Fossett.  The crash site and some of his belongings wer...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Yosemite's grip

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In 1974 I found a postcard in a shop on 4th Street. Loved the black and white image and pinned it next to my desk wherever I worked. A few ...
Sunday, September 28, 2008

Southbound 650

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I don't know why some cross oceans in boats too small and too fast for comfort.  And I certainly don't know why some, like my son Je...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

I took a million notes during the debate.... James Fallows

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"I took a million notes during the debate.... 27 Sep 2008 01:08 AM ... but let me boil it down to this: When the details of this encoun...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

Southbound - Canaries and Cape Verde

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Richard Hudson and crew have stopped at Sao Vicente, Cape Verde Islands, after a placid sail from the Canaries, where they spent two months....

Crossing the Street

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There are many kinds of voyages. Photos by Susan Sermoneta capture some of them. For more click here

South

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Frank Hurley's photographs of the doomed voyage of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance are iconic images. Lugged across the ice, stowed in...
Saturday, September 20, 2008

J.M.W. Turner at the Metropolitan Museum

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J.M.W. Turner (1775 - 1851) explored light and water.  Using what Benjamin Mendlowitz's calls complex light, he goes beyond realism to l...