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Traveling Tomboy has Relaunched!

Earlier this week I launched the first of my blog redesigns/relocations: Traveling Tomboy

I am mostly finished with my reenacting blog, Historically Speaking, as well, and will probably launch it sometime next week. This weekend’s task is to get a start on my photography blog which is tentatively called DriftingFocus Photography, for launch sometime toward the end of the month. The conversion/redesign process has gone more smoothly than I predicted and as a result I should be finished with the whole process by mid-January, despite the setbacks I had at the beginning.

I will be keeping my old content here, but since the content is now also mirrored at the new site, I will not be updating this site any further with new content. If you want to follow my travel content, please change your links and subscriptions to:

Traveling Tomboy: No Heels, No Makeup, Just Adventure

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Friday Photo: Stafford Hotel

Today’s Friday Photo is from a few weeks ago, when Marc, our friend Will, and I took a trip up to Baltimore, Maryland to visit the area’s only anarchist/communist bookstore, Red Emma’s. It’s a great bookstore/coffee shop, and it’s in the beautiful Mount Vernon area of Baltimore. This great old building was right around the corner and I couldn’t resist taking a shot.

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Travel Tuesday Photo: The Ceiling of Notre Dame

Today’s photo is from my recent trip to France. I only spent a few days in Paris, but I stopped by a few of the major sites that I had not visited before, one of which was Notre Dame. Since I had the unfortunate situation of being in Paris in August (the most-visited city in the world during its busiest tourist month), the line to get in was at least 25 minutes long and the cathedral itself was packed, but I still managed to get some good shots.

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Through the Clever Use of Flags

Today’s #FriFotos theme is “Flags”, and I thought I would share a few of my flag-related photos. Plus, this has given me a chance to use a line from one of my favourite Eddie Izzard shows as a title, which is a good enough reason to make this post in itself. I’m going to include not only photos of flags from overseas, but also those taken here at home in the states, and even a few amusing ones from reenactments!

Enjoy the photos!

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Friday Photo: Schweizer Kreuz auf dem Thunersee

Today’s Friday Photo is one of my favourite shots, and it fits the #FriFotos theme of “Flags”!

I took this shot while on a boat cruise of the Thunersee/Lake Thun in the Berner Oberland region of Switzerland. I was returning to Gimmelwald after spending the morning watching a military parade and tank demonstration (one of my I can’t resist military stuff when I travel), and I decided to take a boat back to Interlaken from Thun, rather than a train. It was a great decision and resulted in many of my best shots from the entire trip, including this one.

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Travel Tuesday Photo: Canadian Rockies on the Wing

In the summer of 2006, my father and I flew our family plane, a small, single-engine Grumman Tiger, from Houston, Texas to Fort Yukon, Alaska. The voyage took a week and a half in each direction, and we had many adventures along the way. However, what was most amazing was the scenery that we were able to see and experience up close, thanks to the low-altitude flying that small planes require.

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Two New Prompt Sources: 30 Days of Indie Travel & Blog Your Backyard

Despite having 400-odd drafts that need finishing, I am always on the lookout for good prompts. Even if they too end up in my drafts folder, I find that looking at writing prompts is often inspiring and will introduce me to new directions I can take in my writing.

I have recently been introduced to two sets of prompts that are floating around the travel blogosphere these days: BootsnAll’s 30 Days of Indie Travel Project and Blog Your Backyard

I found the 30 Days of Indie Travel Project through my friend Candice Walsh’s blog, Candice Does The World. Candice is cleverly doing weekly round-ups of the prompts instead of an entry on each prompt, a tack I may very well take myself. I discovered Blog Your Backyard through Brooke Schoenman’s blog, Brooke VS. The World. There’s a lot of information out there on the Washington DC area, but not a lot of info out there on Northern Virginia, where I live, so I’m hoping to expand the available body of knowledge on this area.

So, those are two new themes/prompt sources that you may see pop up here from time to time in the near future. I hope that you’ll enjoy them.

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