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HoleInTheDonut Helps Man Find Long Sought Swiss Family Roots

A couple of weeks ago I received an email thanking me for posting photos of the old buildings in the village of Matten, Switzerland on my blog. The message, which was from a William Diesslin, read in part:
“You didn’t know it at the time, but you photographed my great grandfather’s store front! I’ve attached the [...]

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Double The Pleasure In Richmond, Virginia – A Walking Tour And A Folk Music Festival

By the time my writers conference ended in Richmond, Virginia, I had been sitting for two days and I desperately needed to move. Serendipitously, I discovered that the conference fell on the same weekend as Richmond’s Annual Folk Music Festival, and so I decided to extend my stay by a day to enjoy this historic [...]

Tagged and categorized as: Virginia travel , architecture, Broad Street, Canal Walk, Capitol Square, Dale Watson Band, EU, Folk Music Festival, Franklin Street, historic buildings, Landmark Theater, Monroe Park, Music, Park Avenue, Patrick Henry, photos, Plena Libre, Richmond, Saint Paul's Church, Shockoe Slip, State Capitol, Travel, VCU, Virginia | Comments (2) | TrackBack URI

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After years of working 70 hours a week at jobs I detested, I felt like the proverbial "hole in the donut" - solid on the outside, but empty on the inside. Searching for meaning in my life, I abandoned my successful but unsatisfying career and set out on a six-month solo backpacking trip around the world to pursue my true passions of travel, writing, and photography. Read more here....

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