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Treasures of Palau

Posted on January 4, 2018December 9, 2018 by alhitstheroad

I know, I said that Iceland was next.  Belive me, so did I.  But, I’m still wading thru the TONS of pictures and photographs I took.  It’s so difficult to narrow it down because there are so many amazing photos of Iceland.  I just want to limit it to the best.  Because,  in today’s world,…

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Pacuare Lodge

Posted on November 28, 2017December 9, 2018 by alhitstheroad

I know I told you in my last post that Iceland was next.  Well, I’m still working on it.  In the meantime, I took a little trip here in Costa Rica to one of my favorite places:  The Pacuare Lodge I’ve been to the Pacuare Lodge over 15 times in the past 15 years or…

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Norway – Part 3 – Jan Mayen and Greenland

Posted on November 8, 2017December 9, 2018 by alhitstheroad

Jan Mayen is tiny.  Only 18 people live on the island.  It used to be a Dutch whaling station in the 1600’s until the whales were almost hunted to extinction.  It remained abandoned for a couple of hundred years.  Now Jan Mayen is used by the Meteorological Institute or the Norwegian Military for Cyber Security.  Although…

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Norway Part 2 – Svalbard

Posted on October 20, 2017December 9, 2018 by alhitstheroad

We started off in Longyearbyen but were quickly ushered aboard the ship to take off for our trip around Svalbard.  The only photos I have are of the Global Seed Vault. It’s just a concrete doorway.  But, it’s amazing to think of all the millions of seeds they have stored there from all over the…

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Norway – Part 1 – Oslo

Posted on July 15, 2017December 9, 2018 by alhitstheroad

Several things stood out on our trip to Norway. 1) There is no trash anywhere, that we could see. 2) The capital city is smaller than we expected.  And honestly, I don’t know why we expected a sprawling metropolis, but we didn’t expect it to be smaller than Austin at almost 700k people. 3) The…

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Crocodile Man Tour – Tarcoles, Costa Rica

Posted on July 14, 2017December 9, 2018 by alhitstheroad

Not too far from where I live in Costa Rica, we have this great tourist site called the Tarcoles River.  Now, in reality, the Tarcoles River is the most polluted river in Costa Rica, where most of the sewage from the city of San Jose flows.  So as a result, the crocodiles here are huge….

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