Meeting Up with a Long-Time Travel Friend
September 17th 2010 One Friday evening in fall 2010, Susan and I had the pleasure of dinner with Valene L. Smith, a long-time travel friend of mine.
Valene is a very remarkable woman and traveler. An anthropologist and geographer, she has had a career as a university professor, researcher in Pakistan, Alaska, and the Southwest, documentary film maker, museum founder, travel agent, and tour leader and courier. She
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