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Tuscany
Our drive through the northern Tuscan countryside came too late in the year to see the endless fields of sunflowers. No matter. This is Tuscany. Our path wound through two hilltop villages, nee city states, whose medieval fortress walls now deflect more wind than marauders.
Volterra, built by the Etruscans more than 2000 years ago, served the region as a strategic trading center. The E
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Biggest takeaway so far, 100 pages into book one: The couplet name Boris and Natasha enjoys broader American recognition via the Adventures of Rocky a
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| Michael Pollan turns ingestion (of anything) into high art. In this book he focuses on opium, caffeine and mescaline. I'll never look at the San Pedro cactus in my sunroom the same way again. Fascinating revelations from the origins of coffee to caff ...more | |
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A Road Trip Into America's Hidden Heart - Traveling the Back Roads, Backwoods and Back Yards
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The West Plains stories appear in subsquent books: the Zizzers, the National Audio Theater, Preacher Rowe and Bill Virdon, Dick Van Dyke, Porter Wagon
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Indeed, saved for the next two books, with fun stories about Fair Play, Bolivar, Halfay, Pomme de Terre and Stockton.
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| Dan Jenkins and I share two things in common: the same alma mater, and an abiding dedication to humor. Dan was a few years ahead of me, and we had very different views of the TCU gridiron, he from x's and o's, me from marching band. Dan became a marq ...more | |
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“If we don't preserve our natural heritage, and put back what we take out, these attractions won't be worth visiting.”
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