Here's another piece about a Portuguese town opening window to its history with the slave-trade and slavery https://durangoherald.com/articles/263818 #travel #virtualtravel
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Sad about not being able to travel because of #coronavirus? Well, let me take you to a few places around the world with some travel pieces. Here's my dispatch from Paris two years ago https://apnews.com/4107f91188c147c7865df060196da69b … #travel #vitualtravel
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Come with me to Corpus Christi, Texas, which was the home of late Tejano singer Selana and the birthplace of the Mexican American civil rights movement https://www.masslive.com/entertainment/2013/04/corpus_christi_texas_provides.html …
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Meditate with me while I walk along the site of a former Japanese American Internment Camp in southeastern Colorado https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/jan/10/little-left-of-ww-ii-camp-site-20160110/ …
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And let's try to retrace Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas today. Sadly, he's almost gone https://apnews.com/041594763b2943368cd853f4ee674314 …
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Let's explore a museum in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, dedicated to the Mexican Revolution, and see why a number of Mexican American families (including my own) ended up in the US more than 100 years ago https://www.concordmonitor.com/Ciudad-Juarez-museum-seeks-to-tell-Mexican-Revolution-story-10585979 …
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Then let's sit down for lunch in a place in LA where former gang members work to reshape their lives and inspire, even among those of us who remain forgottenhttps://apnews.com/a03ec965db224cf3bf4b5823d80ff01d …
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We can then go to Liverpool, England, but not just to see the Beatles. Let's go visit a museum seeking to put together the story of slavery https://www.news-journal.com/features/lifestyle/slavery-museum-in-liverpool-aims-to-confront-painful-legacy/article_0324e0ee-2dd1-11ea-8a96-7f9cde20aff5.html …
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And here's a piece about how a New Hampshire farm shaped the like of poet Robert Frost. You can walk around the woods, which are lovely, dark and deep http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43297372/ns/travel-destination_travel/t/nh-farm-shaped-robert-frosts-life-work/#.XnJ9uqhKhPY …
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