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Dec 9, 2025 – Soufriere, St Lucia
Today was a grind, a supposedly short trip from Kingstown, St Vincent to St Lucia. The two eastern Caribbean islands are less than 100 miles apart. My flight with InterCaribbean Airlines was supposed to take 45 minutes. That’s not what happened. So, at checkin I am given a boarding pass to Barbados and another from…
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Dec 8, 2025 – Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines
There’s a ferry system in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) running between islands. It’s a good way to way to get around and these islands are well worth a visit if you like the Caribbean with its beaches, laid back style, beautiful water, good food and people. Took a ferry nine miles south to…
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Dec 7, 2025 – Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG)
Kingstown is dead on Sundays. I was told that yesterday, Saturday, by a local and it’s true. A supermarket is open, fortunately. What they call buses here are mini vans and they operate like in Grenada. But, on Sundays there are fewer tearing down the roads. So, walked to a taxi stand near the government…
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Dec 6, 2025 – St George’s to Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines
Flew this morning from St George’s to Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines, SVG for short. The flight took about 30 minutes. SVG is a great place to sail with its numerous islands with beautiful beaches.
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Dec 5, 2025 – St George’s to Pearls Airport, Grenada
With a late start of after 11 AM, walked to the bus station and decided to go to Pearls airport near Grenville on the east coast. Pearls was built in 1943 but its distance from St George’s, along with being surrounded by hills on three sides, doomed it. But, during the US invasion in 1983…
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Dec 4, 2025 – St George’s, Grenada
Visited the tourist office and grabbed a map of a walking tour of St George’s. Then, started walking around the city of 34,000 people. St George’s is the capital and largest city in Grenada. It doesn’t take but a day to see most of it superficially. There’s Fort George on a hill overlooking the harbor…
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Dec 3, 2025 – St George’s, Grenada
Flew from Miami to St George’s, Grenada. Grenada is in the southeastern Caribbean. It’s known as the Spice Island because of the spices grown here, nutmeg in particular. Grenada is about the last island in the chain of islands going south towards Venezuela. On the way from the airport to St George’s, I asked my…
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Sept 20, 2025 – Food, Dishes, Drinks of Mongolia
Some foods, drinks and dishes in Mongolia. Not all are Mongolian. Some are Korean or Japanese. All were good but you don’t go to Mongolia just for the food.
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Sept 16, 2025 – Out in the Steppe, Mongolia
Been camping at a nomadic family’s place for the last two days. One day we, the tour group, and the nomadic family corralled the sheep and the man of the family carefully chose one sheep to become our lunch for the next day. After pulling the sheep away it was slaughtered in a unique way.…
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Sept 14, 2025 – Ongi Monastery, Gobi Desert, Mongolia
Drove to Middle-Of-Nowhere, Gobi Desert, Mongolia, near the Ongi Monastery. Our group is 14 tourists, three drivers and our Mighty Leader, Nyamka of G Adventures. We’re in three small Mitsubishi vans with four wheel drive. A lot of the driving so far has been on dirt tracks in the Gobi. Sometimes there are about eight…
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