Mary and Kevin Travel

Feedback?

If you have suggestions for the blog, I would love to hear them. More pictures? Fewer? Longer posts? Do you prefer travel stories or impressions of the places we are visiting? Feel free to use the comments section, though I just learned that I have to approve each comment...

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Aloha

We’re off to Hawaii. I remember as a kid being fascinated by the notion that a word could mean both hello and goodbye: aloha in Hawaiian. Different languages have different ways of making sense of the world, and I think this notion that hello and goodbye are related is...

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The Knowledge

In London, they have a test called “The Knowledge.” Cabbies have to know every street within a six-mile radius of Charing Cross: which are one way; when some are closed; that sort of thing. I had The Knowledge for Chicago. Living in the area so long, I knew its...

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Animal Behavior

Hi, everyone. Well, we were dog sitting this beautiful creature last week. One of the things we are most excited to see while traveling are the animals that we cannot normally see in their native habitats. Kiwis. Not: . Cassowaries. Penguins. And of course kangaroos. Mary’s not so keen...

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