The Journey Museum and Learning Center in Rapid City, South Dakota:
Planning a Trip to Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Memorial? Do This First It was mid-afternoon in Rapid City when we met Troy Kilpatrick, Executive Director of the Journey Museum and Learning Center. Although my brain was, as always, willing, my feet groaned out a...
Hotel Carlemany, Girona, Spain:
Hospitality and Heart Define this Costa Brava Hotel As we drove slowly through the center of Girona in search of our accommodations, what we saw was anything but awe-inspiring. Perhaps it was the long drive from Guadalajara, or the fact that we were just plain tired,...
The Truth About All That Free Stuff:
A Travel Writer’s Inside View of Familiarization (Fam) Trips A fellow member of an online travel writers group to which I belong posted a question about how to get the ‘free stuff’. Before I could put fingers to keys in order to tear him a new one, others had already...[Weekly WOW #100] The Best WOW of Them All:
And the winner is… It has been 100 weeks since I began sharing some of the WOW experiences of the Six Legs and husband and photographer, Simon. Since then, I have written little else on this blog. Now, the time has come to move on. So this will be the last Weekly WOW....![[Weekly WOW #099] The Mysterious Circles of Avebury, England:](https://sixlegswilltravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/201606-England-275.jpg)
[Weekly WOW #099] The Mysterious Circles of Avebury, England:
Teachable, Touchable Stones that are Anything But Ordinary. “If you like Stonehenge, Avebury will blow you away.” It was this piece of advice, along with a chance meeting, that led us to a WOW of an experience. Simon, Otto and I had just spent two extraordinary days...![[Weekly WOW #098] Medieval Mikvah in Besalu, Spain:](https://sixlegswilltravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/201605-Spain-996.jpg)
[Weekly WOW #098] Medieval Mikvah in Besalu, Spain:
Ritual Bath Opens a Window on a Once-Thriving Jewish Community. It was thirty-six stairs down from the square in Besalu’s Jewish Quarter into the 14th century ritual bath, known as a mikvah. With each step I noticed the air gradually cooling, as the daylight receded,...![[Weekly WOW #097] Chartres Cathedral in France:](https://sixlegswilltravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/France-2016-81.jpg)
[Weekly WOW #097] Chartres Cathedral in France:
The Grand Dame of Medieval Churches Gets a Facelift. When I first read the book, it was drier than day-old toast, but Henry Adams’s “Mont St. Michel and Chartres” made me want to get close to both these magnificent medieval religious structures. So, in the words of...![[Weekly WOW #096] Floral Tapestry in Girona, Spain:](https://sixlegswilltravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/201605-Spain-844.jpg)
[Weekly WOW #096] Floral Tapestry in Girona, Spain:
One Day Each Year, these Botanical Masterpieces are Produced Through Faith, Family and Fun. As we entered the square in front of Girona Cathedral, Gemma, our guide drew our attention to a floral tapestry in progress. Floral tapestry? Yes, floral tapestry, which turned...![[Weekly WOW #095] Salt of the Sea in Sicily:](https://sixlegswilltravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/201606-Italy-43.jpg)
[Weekly WOW #095] Salt of the Sea in Sicily:
You’ll Never Look at Your Shaker or Grinder the Same Way Again. It was a hard lump, with a rough, irregular surface. Holding it in my hand, it was difficult to imagine this strange object could have anything to do with food preservation, flavor enhancement or high...
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