Posted in All About Me, SVV on Sep 2nd, 2009
*By now, those of you who have been my blog friends since Camels & Chocolate has been up and running are probably sick and tired of the tale of Scott+Kristin: Through the Ages. Well, then, you should probably divert thine eyes, as today is our fourth anniversary—or “Happy four years since I ignored you and [...]
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Posted in SVV, Uncategorized on May 29th, 2009
On my very first guidebook assignment in 2006, I was sent to Spain for six weeks for research. While I had many regions to cover, including Basque Country, Navarra and the Pyrenees, I made my base in the heart of Aragon, starting first with Jaca, the almost site of the 2010 Olympics. (Damn you, Vancouver!)(I [...]
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After our year living in Europe together was up, SVV and I took what I thought would be our final trip as a pair in 2006 (we had no plans to “go steady” as my mom might say upon returning to the US; funny, three years minus one month from returning Stateside, and here we [...]
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On a bright and breezy Sunday I slammed into the whooptie* and shattered the silence of the canyon. A whole-hearted expletive was crushed short by the sound of a 1988 Honda impacting the desert landscape, rider akimbo. Sound is such a tenuous thing, and died a quick death against the powdered talc and rotten slate [...]
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