A Childhood Scrapbook
I'd like to share with you my "travel threads" -- a scrapbook of places I've visited and things I care about, with anecdotes, pictures and video clips, and recommended links and books on each topic. Since I have so many patches, I've grouped them on different lenses by theme.
Table of Contents
A Patchwork of Lenses
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Travel Threads: Space
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My father was an aerospace engineer and my grandmother a planetarium director. So I've always had a personal relationship with the space program -- never as my career, but as something I followed avidly, the way children of military families are more...
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Travel Threads: American West
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When I wasn't paddling the rivers of eastern Canada, I was usually on the back of a horse out west. The big skies, looming mountains, dark forests and lonely plains of the American West were dramatic indeed for someone raised at the edge of Amish...
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Travel Threads: Canada
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Many summers, we'd camp for two weeks in the wilderness of Ontario north of New York State. I loved Canada. As a kid, I thought I needed a patch for each trip, and I agonzied over selecting the most interesting shape or most appropriate picture. Th...
Where Would You Like to Go?
Great Stuff on Amazon
Imaginetics Travel Picture Bingo
This helped keep me busy on long drives, along with various toys. Of course, we didn't have DVDs or video games back then.
Amazon Price: $7.95 (as of 12/31/2009) 
MSR Alpine Teapot
Essential part of my backpacking kit. Those freeze-dried meals use hot water poured right into the bag, so this may be the only pot you need.
Amazon Price: $22.95 (as of 12/31/2009)
Traveller's Log
Comments? Did you enjoy this lens? Or are you bored to tears? Feel free to drop a note!
Note: I have stopped accepting "Cool lens! Visit my URL [link]!" comments; sorry! I don't mind people sharing related links, but I'm tired of being used simply as a billboard for random ads.
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- CollectorsCottage CollectorsCottage Feb 25, 2009 @ 6:15 pm
- Nice lens, 5 stars. Your jacket looks to me like the inspiration for a "Traveling Pants" type of novel! Thanks for applying to the Collector Clubs group, but our group is specifically for lenses dedicated to collecting and helping others build their collections. Best of luck to you!
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