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Barbie movie would have you believe that the world of little girls was
changed when the Betsy-Wetsy doll was replaced with Barbie in </span></span></span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" id="ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1454992872191_2297" style="color: #20124d;"><span id="ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1454992872191_2349" style="font-size: 16px;"><span face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif" id="ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1454992872191_2348"><span face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" lgov="17d60 rgb(0,0,191)">March 1959. No longer were little girls destined to be mothers caring
for, feeding, and diaper-changing baby dolls when they could use all
their talents and become grown-up Barbies who could be astronauts,
Pulitzer prize-winners, or even presidential candidates — AND mothers.</span></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" id="ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1454992872191_2297" style="color: #20124d;"><span id="ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1454992872191_2349" style="font-size: 16px;"><span face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif" id="ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1454992872191_2348"><span face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" id="ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1454992872191_2297" style="color: #20124d;"><span id="ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1454992872191_2349" style="font-size: 16px;"><span face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif" id="ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1454992872191_2348"><span face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" lgov="17d60 rgb(0,0,191)">That's
a lovely dream — a pat on the back to Mattel for their prescience and
feminine foresight. The problem is, it's not quite accurate.<br></span></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" id="ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1454992872191_2297" style="color: #20124d;"><span id="ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1454992872191_2349" style="font-size: 16px;"><span face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif" id="ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1454992872191_2348"><span></span></span></span></span></div><a href="http://tightwadtravel.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-barbie-movie.html#more">Continue Reading>></a>Druhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08986845134268444777noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016686104380037838.post-34017963650524403652022-05-07T16:45:00.004-07:002022-05-07T17:01:52.005-07:00Vehicle Blessing or Cheap Road Repair? The Choice Is Yours!<p lgov="17d60 rgb(0,0,0)"> While I love my Lincoln Zephyr, a model only made for one glorious year in 2006, I have never had it blessed as is the routine for new taxis in Mexico. That was undoubtedly my mistake. Maybe the "check engine" light would not have been flashing furiously last week if only I could have counted on a little divine intervention.<br></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXVmVhK2dZA6smhgMN4jL-f2h7U10a7POaoZAAQnvaSNqWRDJ9ZR5a2ocdBho6fmghlUCnn6WmP_xO90ayNzqmNE11CILLSBCHhum05fLiz6r0G_U6PI42A61VYgcsXk3vq6v8XQGq7M2suZJJFkJkFgtEDwNhvcwOGEZMboRrnKOo6KpDYKVXBDjh/s1600/IMG_7520.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXVmVhK2dZA6smhgMN4jL-f2h7U10a7POaoZAAQnvaSNqWRDJ9ZR5a2ocdBho6fmghlUCnn6WmP_xO90ayNzqmNE11CILLSBCHhum05fLiz6r0G_U6PI42A61VYgcsXk3vq6v8XQGq7M2suZJJFkJkFgtEDwNhvcwOGEZMboRrnKOo6KpDYKVXBDjh/w640-h480/IMG_7520.JPG" width="640"></a></div> Blessing of the Taxi in Queretero, Mexico.<br><p></p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #403c3c; font-family: MecherleSans-Medium; font-size: 1.375rem; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><br></h3><span></span><a href="http://tightwadtravel.blogspot.com/2022/05/vehicle-blessing-or-cheap-road-repair.html#more">Continue Reading>></a>Druhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08986845134268444777noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016686104380037838.post-49791334375889360162022-02-15T10:49:00.006-08:002022-02-15T11:34:30.625-08:00Tantalizing Travel Tips<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhR0CJ2HEujtaoE3JZsMgfJERzRZ3RyFbPPzIYbOe0CELmubWjGPLq41kYexS-z2pzEHiQ-CWGmgA_48Dac_1eQxM3DtwFY92nbbeYkiwFb4OpvClS3gAMYFDacDsyMxAe9ZoUy7xOo5_Rzy0PgM9wLt9JtC2KCWw8CPO1kLD2alfMMdd-fX15-uUQ9=s1600" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhR0CJ2HEujtaoE3JZsMgfJERzRZ3RyFbPPzIYbOe0CELmubWjGPLq41kYexS-z2pzEHiQ-CWGmgA_48Dac_1eQxM3DtwFY92nbbeYkiwFb4OpvClS3gAMYFDacDsyMxAe9ZoUy7xOo5_Rzy0PgM9wLt9JtC2KCWw8CPO1kLD2alfMMdd-fX15-uUQ9=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" lgov="16d00 rgb(0,0,0)" style="text-align: center;">Dinan, France<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div dir="auto"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc ihqw7lf3 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_ks"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" lgov="16d00 rgb(0,0,0)" style="text-align: start;">This blog, <i><a href=" https://brentandmichaelaregoingplaces.substack.com/?r=kmtez">Brent and Michael Are Going Places</a></i>, is packed with tantalizing travel tips that may actually lure armchair travelers out of their La-Z-Boy recliners. But even if you're not ready to leave the country yet, you'll be happy to follow along in Brent and Michael's footsteps!<br /></div><div dir="auto" lgov="16d00 rgb(0,0,0)" style="text-align: start;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" lgov="16d00 rgb(0,0,0)" style="text-align: start;">It's a friendly, well-written, and personable blog that contains anecdotes as well as practical travel advice. Take a look. I think you'll like it.</div></div></span></span></div></div></div></div>Druhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08986845134268444777noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016686104380037838.post-58644258208942472082020-10-08T14:17:00.002-07:002020-10-08T14:23:12.551-07:00Travel Tip for Using Phone's GPS in a Rental Car<p><span data-offset-key="becc3-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0zDh5LSdLw4/X3-A_xxeyYI/AAAAAAAAw6I/NZOlBHcZ_TYko-ler8XwnfMC62cGnVu6wCPcBGAsYHg/s4160/IMG_20201008_140003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0zDh5LSdLw4/X3-A_xxeyYI/AAAAAAAAw6I/NZOlBHcZ_TYko-ler8XwnfMC62cGnVu6wCPcBGAsYHg/w300-h400/IMG_20201008_140003.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span data-offset-key="becc3-0-0"><span data-text="true" lgov="16d00 rgb(0,0,0)">Last time I was in North Carolina, I noticed that my son had this clever cell phone holder that mounted to his car's air vent. That seemed like a great idea, so when I was in the 99 cent store here in Tucson I found this one for just a dollar. </span></span></p><p><span data-offset-key="becc3-0-0"><span data-text="true" lgov="16d00 rgb(0,0,0)">It works really well and is small enough to be portable so I can take it on trips when I have car rentals that are not equipped with GPS. It's hard to go wrong with a dollar investment that, at just four inches long, takes up next to no space in my suitcase!</span></span></p><p><span data-offset-key="becc3-0-0"><span data-text="true"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VMu7ImH3PNk/X3-BP5kVDnI/AAAAAAAAw6Q/MY8e7_HuRhAg7T8DEHcmFBEbpugPw5vvgCPcBGAsYHg/s4160/IMG_20201008_140033.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VMu7ImH3PNk/X3-BP5kVDnI/AAAAAAAAw6Q/MY8e7_HuRhAg7T8DEHcmFBEbpugPw5vvgCPcBGAsYHg/w300-h400/IMG_20201008_140033.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Druhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08986845134268444777noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016686104380037838.post-17625981463663389162020-07-12T12:17:00.000-07:002020-07-22T10:52:20.248-07:00Flying into the Heart of a Pandemic<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">* (See update at end of article.) Being
a human cork at the end of a bungee cord holds no appeal for me. I'd
sky-dive only if someone blindfolded me and shoved me out the
airplane door. Even being on a stepladder produces a frisson of fear
these days. The only courage I ever exhibit is when I "forget"
to balance my checkbook each month and simply hope for the best. So,
it was with trepidation that I decided to fly on one of the busiest
weekends of the year, July Fourth, during a pandemic when doctors
reported skyrocketing cases of Covid every day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> <i lgov="22d46 rgb(0,0,0)">Since the only traveling I'm doing during the pandemic of 2020 is virtually, I'm
rereading some early blog pieces and publishing ones I think are worthy
of a second look.This was my first visit to Alaska when I could not help but compare it to my newly adopted home in Mexico.</i></span></h3>
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I leaned from the bed and stretched a hand towards the window to pull
back the “darkening” shade, then plucked apart the slats of the blind
with two fingers. Would I find rain or sunshine? My cousins and I
planned a trip to Glacier Gardens, but it wouldn’t be much fun in a cold
rain.<br>
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“You might get one day of sunshine a week,” a wizened sourdough told us
when we first arrived in Alaska, “if you’re lucky.” I guess the Weather
Channel web site hadn’t made a typo when the ten-day forecast for
Southeastern Alaska predicted rain every single day.<br>
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I knew this part of Alaska was a rain forest, but I was hoping the rain
always fell at night the way it does in Ajijic. Mexico. Actually it
always did fall at night. And in the morning and in the afternoon and in
the evening.<br>
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<i>Since the only traveling I'm doing during the pandemic of 2020 is virtually, I'm
rereading some early blog pieces and publishing ones I think are worthy
of a second look.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
bull that will die this afternoon must have thought he’d survived
the worst that could happen. He’d lived on a ranch for three years
with no human contact. Yesterday, when he was forced into a truck,
the men using metal prods remained hidden. Being shoved into a truck
after a life on the open range is frightening. Bulls resist. One died
yesterday as a result of the manipulation and another lost one of his
horns. </span>
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My friend Phoebe seldom sits still. She divides her time between her two houses—one in Mexico and the other in Maryland—but doesn't like to spend too much time in either one if she can be traveling instead.<br>
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If you want to truly get away from it all, I think you can't do better than Silver City, New Mexico, a surprisingly metropolitan gem of a town where fewer than 10,000 people make their home.The walk-friendly historic downtown has only one flashing red light to monitor traffic, no stoplights, and lots of friendly shop owners ready to welcome you to their antique shops, thrift stores, two used bookstores, artists' galleries, and bars and restaurants.<br>
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You can go to a boutique in Santa Fe, New
Mexico, and buy a three-inch Santa Clara black pot for $200, or you can
go to the Santa Clara Pueblo and get it for $100. Or, you can do what David, my fiance, and I
did, and buy nothing at all! We still enjoyed the hunt though,
especially since the Pueblo was only a ten-minute drive from our Airbnb.
Here's how to do it.<br>
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<a href="http://taospueblo.com/">The Taos Pueblo</a> is the longest,
continuously occupied Pueblo in the Western Hemisphere, and David and I
met several of the people who still live there today.<br>
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We fell down the rabbit hole today but didn't mind in the least. David
and I strolled through a refrigerator and crawled through a fireplace to
get to the land of the dragons. If you're in Santa Fe, you'lll want to do the same thing at this interactive art museum called <a href="https://meowwolf.com/">Meow Wolf</a>.<br>
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<b>Holy cow, holy mackerel, holy crap, yes, but we never heard of holy dirt until today. </b><br>
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It seems that back in the 1800s, a priest found a crucifix on this site
that he moved to a church. The next day the cross magically appeared
back at its original site.<br>
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This happened three times until everyone
finally gave up and decided the cross was where it was supposed to be.
It was declared a miracle and the site was considered sacred ground. Believers come from around the world to pay their respects.<br>
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One hundred steps, most of them cleft from
the rock face, and four ten-foot ladders, made me wish my ancestors had
been mountain goats instead of Swedes. <br>
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Evidently one cannot be married, have a significant other, or be entangled in any way to get into the Sunflower Theatre in Cortez, Colorado.<br>
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Our GPS misled us so instead of a
nine-mile rutted gravel road, we got to enjoy 21 miles of washboard that
bounced our car like a bronco. We never had to worry about what was
ahead or around a blind curve, because it was always more of that
endless road.<br>
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Bathtub Row Brewers might have you believe that Los Alamos is better known for craft brews than for the nuclear bomb that ended WWII, but don't fall for it. This is a town full of savvy people whose ancestors were brought here in the 1940s to work on "The Gadget."<br>
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Light, like air, is one of those intangibles that we depend on even though we never see it directly. We notice its absence, but never get to feel its presence. At least that was true until Virginia Dwan found a way to give light substance in this <a href="https://www.uwc-usa.org/about-us/our-campus/the-dwan-light-sanctuary/">light sanctuary</a> in a tiny town outside Las Vegas, New Mexico, <br>
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Orphanages are not unusual but the quality of construction in this one is special because Brunelleschi, who designed the Dome for the Duomo in Florence, was the architect in charge of this <span style="font-size: 11pt;">building. Even more unexpectedly, the halls of the safe haven for orphans were decorated with some of the most beautiful Renaissance art.</span></div>
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Phoebe has not felt well since the beginning of this trip. This morning our host insisted on taking her to the public clinic at the Red Cross located right up the street from our apartment.</div>
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As has been true throughout history, it paid to be a boy because you got the bedroom with a fireplace.<br>
This was the bedroom of William and his brothers.<br>
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Shakespeare 's father was a glove maker, one of three in Stratford-Upon-Avon. His workroom and store occupied one entire side of the house.<br>
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Cotswold literally means sheep and hill, but it also seems to mean wildflowers that appear as nosegays gracing every table in a tea room, milk bottles delivered to doorsteps at 6 in the morning, and passersby who wish you good day.<br />
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Remember the wonderful movie <i lgov="16d00 rgb(0,0,0)">Bridget Jones's Diary</i>? This is her parents' house where she went to celebrate Christmas and met Colin Firth. It is located in the tiny Cotswold town of Snowshill, population 170. The guide said that it looked even better when it was filmed in July and the entire area was covered with artificial snow.</div>
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