Elephant Safari, India

We do believe it’s time for another Adventure.
Where’s your next adventure?

Looks like fun except for the splash in the face part

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Dubrovnik, Croatia

Croatia is beautiful with many historical sites, scenic coastline, and wonderful people. I highly recommend a vacation there…off-season to avoid the crowds and heat of summer.

Nice shot, good looking sandals!

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Sihanoukville, Cambodia

Touching the Setting Sun

I would like to submit a picture of foot touching the sun while waiting for the new year 2013.

Beautiful background!

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Lerderberg State Forest, Victoria, Australia

walking on the sky

chip mooney

Beautiful image!

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Seattle, Washington

Work In Progress- Leaping Into the Unknown

I’ve been very lax about posting updates lately and I know that is a weakness of mine, but here is something new! I’ve been working on this piece for well over a month but just started the acrylic painting portion last week.

Looking great!

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Hertzliya, Israel

Hi, my name is Leonardo (Leo), I’m the owner of the blog : www.majberet.wordpress.com

and want to submit a photo to your blog. The photo was taken in a beach of Hertzliya, in Israel. I send you a haiku (it appeared in my blog before with a little change).

Love is in the air
sun shines in the sandy sky
bodies tanning gold

Well, thank you very much.

Nice shot, and thanks for the Haiku!

Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia , Canada

My beau and I went to Harrison Hot Springs to try it out as a possible honeymoon spot and we loved it.  Our plan is to tour BC for a week after our wedding and we definitely plan on making the hot springs one of our stops along the way.
It was so relaxing and beautiful.

Wow, looks amazing with that old bridge in the background, and Congrats, again, Meeshelle!

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Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Interesting drawing!

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Palm Harbor, Florida

Great drawing!

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Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida

While I was driving through Big Cypress National Preserve, I kept seeing large insects on the road. I had no idea what they were, only that they were far larger than the insects I would see at home in Indiana (and therefore rather terrifying to someone who is not too fond of insects). Part way through the drive, I stopped at a welcome center for the preserve, and saw this (dead) fellow on the ground and realized that the large insects were giant grasshopper-like insects. I didn’t have a good item to use for reference on the size of the insect, so I used what was immediately available: my big toe.

Not sure at all what it is, but it looks pretty big!

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Bucharest, Romania

My name is Gabrielle.I am 18 years old, I’m studying interior design at High School of Art “Nicolae Tonitza” in Bucharest,Romania.This sculpture was made a few years ago. Hope you will like it.

This is my blog: http://andreeanistorescuinteractive.blogspot.ro/

That’s pretty cool!

Mumbai, India

This day bed has been in the family for generation.  Tea has been had, naps have been taken, battles have been fought and love has been made.

Nice shot, and oh, the stories it could tell!

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Istanbul, Turkey

Don’t expect a slick sophisticated travel review today. I’m returning to my recent trip to Istanbul to tell you about some of my adventures. Many times when I travel it is because I am tagging along with my husband while he works. We have our methods down pat. We arrive a day or so early and do things together. Then he works for two and a half days while I amuse myself, and then we have a little more time together after his work is concluded.

When people I know found out I was going to Istanbul, a majority of them advised me not to go anywhere alone. Many of them said this not based on any of their own experiences, but because an American woman had recently been murdered there. Personally I  was not afraid. For one thing I already live in a very violent town, and could  hardly imagine Istanbul being worse. Second, I am careful when I travel. I don’t venture into “iffy” areas. The places I want to go are distinctly undangerous – museums, for example. What are the statistics on murders inside museums and museum bookstores? Finally, I trust my own instincts. If I even think I might start to feel uncomfortable in a place, I leave.

Despite my own opinions, the pleas not to go out alone continued. Even my daughter who had recently been to Istanbul asked me not to go out alone. She had not gone out by herself while in Istanbul, but she had had no reason to; her husband was not working. To appease my daughter, I said that while her Dad  was working I would get a Turkish bath at the hotel and go on a tour. That seemed to assuage her fears.

As planned. my husband and I had a day to orient ourselves to the town before he started work. The first day he worked I booked myself for a Turkish bath at our hotel. I knew  this was probably not going to be the most authentic experience, but having had no Turkish bath at all, ever, I thought I could start here. In fact I wasn’t even sure what a Turkish bath was. When I checked in at the spa desk, I was led to a ladies’ dressing room and shown where to put my clothes. and what towel to wrap myself in.

I complied with these directions, and sat down on a bench in the dressing room wondering what I was supposed to do next. After a few minutes I went out to the front, draped in my towel, causing a maintenance man to jump ten feet,( They’re very modest over there) and asked the receptionist if I was supposed to come back to the front. All she said to me was “No.” “OK, no,”  I muttered to myself and went back to the dressing room.  It sure was getting hot and humid in there! I sat and sat. In a few minutes a woman clad in a bikini like outfit  came in from a back door in the dressing room and addressed me in Turkish. When I couldn’t understand her she left. Since I have such trusty instincts I realized, in my sweaty humid state that unless I approached someone I would probably spend my entire day sweating in a towel in a dressing room!  I knew not to go to the front  desk so I opened the back door, where I saw the Turkish speaking woman. Gulping in the fresh air of the corridor I ventured,” Turkish bath?” She responded again in Turkish, but this time I heard the word“hamam” (Turkish bath)  so I vigorously nodded yes.

We needed no language for the bath. I stretched out on a warm slab of marble, listening to some soft music as the attendant scrubbed, lathered and rinsed me. Heavenly! After her ministrations she led me, freshly toweled, to a dark room with chaise longues, and brought me a tray of tea and fruit. And left me.

Great story!

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Coventry, Vermont

…this shot was taken in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont at the final Phish Shows in 2004. The rains came and came, they had to drag in the cars, RVs etc. Many Phans were turned away due to the weather. It was a wild time.

Somehow the music always makes it more fun than a drag!

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Rome, Italy

From Trajan’s Market museum in Rome. I think this is the emperor Constantine…

 

Usually we get the torso without the limbs, nice shot!

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