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Great Drives: Be the Lord of the Road on a Ring Tour

10
Nov
1

The hobbits are back! And they’re in New Zealand again. Now that The Hobbit, the prequel to Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy, is out New Zealand is once again Middle Earth. Not only because it’s Jackson’s home but because he believes it’s the best film location anywhere.

Category: Bohemian Written by Tom Neal Tacker 0 Comments

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Tarkine Trailblazing

07
Nov
1

The Tarkine Wilderness in Tasmania shouldn’t be such a secret a location. Having walked, or stumbled, the length of the Overland Track, explored the furthest reaches of Mount Field and Freycinet National Parks, clambered over, but mostly around, peaks throughout the island state, I reckoned I knew a fair bit about Tasmania’s unique environmental wonders. […]

Category: Wild Written by Tom Neal Tacker 0 Comments

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Obama’s Kind of Town

07
Nov
1

Chicago is the essential American city, powerful, awe-inspiring and rich. “Make no little plans, for they have no magic to stir men’s blood… Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work.” Architect Daniel H. Burnham, one of Chicago’s many original movers and shakers, wrote this in 1909 when he penned his famous Chicago Plan.

Category: Wundering Written by Tom Neal Tacker 0 Comments

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