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A 2,600-mile journey starts with stumble (The Times Record)
We invite our readers to join former Times Record reporter Sarah Holt on a 10-day series recounting her adventures during a five-and-a-half month, 2,663-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail.
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Benjamin Matthew Chandler (The Farmington Daily Times)
REDONDO BEACH, CALIF. Benjamin Matthew Chandler, 29, of Redondo Beach, Calif., passed away Jan. 1, 2009, in Las Cruces. He was born Dec. 20, 1979, in Farmington.
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LAistory: The Outpost Sign (LAist)
Photo by Marc Wanamaker/ Bison Archives Hiking through the Hollywood Hills, one finds a lot of garbage. There's the usual bottles and cans of various types, old bits of carpeting, couches, bones, bicycles, even old cars sometimes. They all have (little h) history. Someone had to truck it up there and leave it, either to get rid of it, or to live in it, whatever. But very little has ...
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Books will help you plan trips in 2009 (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
NEW YORK -- Looking for some inspiration to plan your trips for the new year? Here are some books to guide you. And if you can't afford to take the trip of your dreams in this economy, any one of these publications will give you the right to proclaim yourself an expert armchair traveler.
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Travel: Big city, big ambitions (The State)
HOUSTON — In this city of skyscrapers of glass, steel and stone stretching 1,000 feet into the heavens, the one-story Beer Can House may best capture Houston’s essence. “It’s visionary art,” Mayor Bill White says, chuckling, as we stop at the modest three-bedroom, one-bath house a comfortable bike ride from the skyscraper district. “We have such eclectic architecture, and we don’t have an ...
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The Troy Messenger (The Troy Messenger)
Eliot Wigginton of “Foxfire” fame published a book titled “I Wish I Could Give My Son a Wild Raccoon.” Wigginton’s wish for his “son” was that he could experience the same wide-eyed wonder of childhood innocence that those of us, on whom gravity is exerting a heavy tug, experienced.
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Che: Part One, Steven Soderbergh, 126 mins, 15 (Independent)
Steven Soderbergh's four-hour Che Guevara biopic is being released in two halves in Britain, with the second segment due in February.
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Travel books to plan your trips for 2009 (Woodstock Sentinel-Review)
Looking for some inspiration to plan your trips for the new year? Here are some books to guide you. And if you can't afford to take the trip of your dreams in this economy, any one of these publications will give you the right to proclaim yourself an expert armchair traveller.
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Meet John and Judy; Local woman’s random mental image while hiking balloons into cheeky card business (The Bulletin)
Like so many Central Oregon residents, good friends Amy Sheffer and Joan Seip love hiking and backpacking in the woods. But when these two hit the trails, they pack some unusual gear: Blowup dolls John and Judy.It all started about a year and a half ago. Sheffer, 37, and Seip, 53, were hiking somewhere in the Three Sisters Wilderness when a funny image crept into Sheffer’s mind.
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10 great places to leave the beauty unspoiled (USA Today)
Resolved: Pick a place to visit this year that does not involve trashing the planet. Call it "geotourism," which is defined by the National Geographic Society as "tourism that sustains or enhances the geographical character of a place.
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