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                    <title>NEW YORK CITY 2009 1  Jim Colyer</title>
                    <description>Michael and I made our second trip to New York September 2426. We fought our way from Kennedy Airport in Queens to Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan. We again ferried to the Statue of Liberty. The Statue is a National Monument. They were taking only 200 people a day to the crown and were booked til January. We headed for Times Square and the Portland Square Hotel where we checked int</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/blog-443135.html</link>
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                    <title>A MAN IS A MAN  Jim Colyer song</title>
                    <description>A MAN IS A MANhttpjimcolyer.comsitebuilderflashplayerfmusicflashplaylist.xml3Ft3D4When we're out on the town He's in his tight bluejeans Women give him the eye As they pass by Once in awhile He might return their looks But I understand A Man Is A Man Sometimes he seems A million miles away Talking sports to the guys On a long Saturday And he might mention An old romance Well nobody's</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/blog-393754.html</link>
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                    <title>GRACELAND baby  Jim Colyer</title>
                    <description>Michael and I made it to Memphis on July 3 2008. We spent that night at the Heartbreak Hotel and returned to Nashville the evening of July 4. The Hotel is next to Graceland. Being a TripleA member got me a discount. We toured the mansion. It was my first time in Graceland since Karen and I were there nearly 26 years ago. I thought it was good for Michael since he was born and grew up in Tennesse</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Tennessee/Memphis/blog-296252.html</link>
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                    <title>Jim Colyer in Germany</title>
                    <description>I was stationed in Germany in the Army. I saw Frankfurt Stuttgart Bamberg and Nuremberg. In Frankfurt I was out walking one night and chanced upon the house of the poet Goethe. It was weird because I had seen a picture of his house in a book in the library at Fort Knox. The city of Frankfurt was founded by Charlemagne in 794. It sits on the Main river. The Main flows into the Rhine. I ended up </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/blog-233115.html</link>
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                    <title>Jim Colyer in Chicago</title>
                    <description>November 1974  Chicago I drove to Chicago to see Burton Cummings  The Guess Who. It was funny because the concert was in an auditorium and somewhat formal. I lit a cigar and an usher came and made me put it out. I saw The Guess Who 3 times 197475. Their music inspired me to return to school and get my degrees. June 1966  Chicago Cousin Larry and I were talking after having watched The Ave</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Illinois/Chicago/blog-233114.html</link>
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                    <title>Jim Colyer in Las Vegas 1993</title>
                    <description>I returned to Las Vegas for 3 months March 7 to June 8 1993 with the intention of adding to the experience I had in 1979. I dug in at the Tropicana Club at the south end of Las Vegas Boulevard. I relied on the strip trolley for transportation. I wanted to hang out. Bill Clinton was America's new president and we were going through a 70s revival. It was an opportune moment for escaping my paren</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/Las-Vegas/blog-233113.html</link>
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                    <title>New Orleans  Jim Colyer</title>
                    <description>December 1977  New Orleans Houston I flew to New Orleans and took a Greyhound to Houston. New Orleans is different. It is like a piece of Europe. I saw the Duelling Oaks in City Park. Duels were fought there. It was also in this park that I beheld the Tutankhamen exhibit. These pieces were discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon in 1922 in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. They are over 3000</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Louisiana/New-Orleans/blog-233112.html</link>
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                    <title>Marshall Space Flight Center  Jim Colyer</title>
                    <description>May 1980  Marshall Space Flight Center The space program is conducted at various locations around the country. NASA oversees the Kennedy Space Flight Center at Cape Canaveral the Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston and the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville Alabama. In Huntsville Karen and I saw America's space achievements as a single unified movement. We visited Twicke</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Alabama/Huntsville/blog-233111.html</link>
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                    <title>Grand Tour 1980  Jim and Karen Colyer</title>
                    <description>Karen and I called our 1980 Greyhound trip the Grand Tour because it was so comprehensive. We made a figure 8 up east and through the southwest. We left Louisville on August 3rd. Our momentum increased as we approached Washington D.C. In D.C. I showed Karen the best of what I had seen 3 years before White House Washington Monument and Bureau of Engraving and Printing. In the Capitol she touc</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/blog-233109.html</link>
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                    <title>Gatlinburg  Jim  karen Colyer</title>
                    <description>May 1981  Gatlinburg Karen and I made our second trip to Gatlinburg This time we saw Clingmans Dome the highest point in Tennessee. From the observation tower the panorama of green trees was impressive. We hiked again to Cades Cove a five mile walk round trip. We went to Oak Ridge. Oak Ridge was built during Word War II for the purpose of working on the atomic bomb the socalled Manhattan </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Tennessee/Gatlinburg/blog-233108.html</link>
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                    <title>Memphis  Jim  Karen Colyer</title>
                    <description>Karen and I went to Memphis November 12  13 1982. The Elvis legend is the one thing which had assumed a new dimension since I was there in June 1977. Little did I know then that he had only two more months to live. Graceland is open to tourists now and for 5 bucks apiece we were escorted through several rooms. Karen liked the gold piano. We saw the TV room with the 3 sets one for each channe</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Tennessee/Memphis/blog-233107.html</link>
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                    <title>Chattanooga  Jim  Karen Colyer</title>
                    <description>Karen and I returned to Chattanooga January 79 1983 and added another dimension to our understanding of the area. We visited Lookout Mountain and its attractions Rock City and Ruby Falls. Rock City is just that boulders with a path winding through them. The walk climaxes at Lover's Leap with a panoramic view. It was opened to the public in 1932. Ruby Falls was discovered by Leo Lambert and n</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Tennessee/Chattanooga/blog-233104.html</link>
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                    <title>The Outer Banks  Jim  Karen Colyer</title>
                    <description>The Outer Banks are a string of islands off the North Carolina coast. On September 1 1983 Karen and I ferried 27 miles across Pamlico Sound to Okracoke Island. This ferry ride was one of the highlights of our trip. We took the car on the boat. Water was on all sides. It was drizzling rain. Birds glided overhead and Karen spotted jellyfish swimming by. We spent the night on Okracoke. The next mo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/North-Carolina/Ocracoke/blog-233103.html</link>
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                    <title>St. Louis  Jim  Karen Colyer</title>
                    <description>Karen and I ascended St. Louis' Gateway Arch the morning of November 12 1983. From the top of the Arch we saw Busch Stadium on one side and the Mississippi River and McDonald's riverboat where we ate lunch on the other. The Arch is huge. It is part of the Thomas Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. The museum below stresses the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition the follo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/St-Louis/blog-233101.html</link>
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                    <title>Natchez Trace  Jim Colyer</title>
                    <description>On my 39th birthday Karen Michael and I drove down Natchez Trace to Tupelo Mississippi. In the 1800s men walked up this trail after sailing flatboats down the Mississippi River. Along the Trace we saw Indian Mounds and the burial site of Meriwether Lewis the great trailblazer. Once in Tupelo we visited Elvis Presley's birthplace. Natchez Trace is a project of the National Park Service and i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Mississippi/Natchez-Trace/blog-233100.html</link>
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                    <title>Big Bone Lick  Texas  Jim Colyer</title>
                    <description>August 1986  Big Bone Lick Charlotte and I went to Big Bone Lick State Park near Florence Kentucky. The site was once a salt lick and fossils of Pleistocene mammals such as mammoths and mastodons have been found. The park sits near the Ohio River the southern most boundary of glaciation during the Ice Age. Coming back 42 we viewed the Ohio from Butler State Park in Carrollton. This was the t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Texas/San-Antonio/blog-233099.html</link>
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                    <title>New Hampshire  Boston  Jim Colyer</title>
                    <description>My parents and I journeyed to my sister's house in Nashua New Hampshire in September 1987. We spent time in Massachusetts. The trip marked my first experience in New England. From Nashua the ride down to Boston is a short one. We wasted no time getting to the suburbs of Lexington and Concord. This is where the American Revolution began in 1775. We drove by Lexington Green and proceeded along th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Hampshire/blog-233097.html</link>
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                    <title>Minnesota  Jim Colyer</title>
                    <description>In March 1993 I visited Michael in Red Wing Minnesota where he and Karen were living. It was my first time in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Of course my purpose was to spend time with my son not to grind out a paper. In Red Wing we bowled saw a movie and went down to the Mississippi River. I flew down to Las Vegas. I returned to Minnesota in August 1994. Michael and I saw the New York Yankees </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Minnesota/Minneapolis/blog-233095.html</link>
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                    <title>Stockholm Sweden  Jim Colyer</title>
                    <description>I flew to Stockholm May 12 1994. I got Swedish crowns at JFK in New York one dollar buying between 7 and 8 crowns. We flew over Iceland and Norway to arrive at Arlanda airport the following morning. The time difference was 6 hours. I noticed on the map how Sweden is shaped like California. A city bus took me from Arlanda to the heart of town. Late in the day I found a room in a private home fo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Stockholm-County/Stockholm/blog-233094.html</link>
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                    <title>Jim Colyer at the Grand Canyon</title>
                    <description>The Grand Canyon is in northern Arizona. It was carved by the Colorado River as the land rose. A cake and knife analogy is used. The river is a knife held stationary as the cake is uplifted. The Canyon took 7 million years to carve. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long and a mile deep averaging 10 miles across. It is shaped like a bra or a woman's bosom. Two billion years of Earth's history are exp</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Grand-Canyon-National-Park/blog-232686.html</link>
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