Category: travel
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Beep. Beep. Yeah. Get into Zipcar
On Monday, April 11, 2016, Ferndale celebrated its new partnership with Zipcar. I was honored to speak on behalf of my council colleagues to welcome our new partner to Ferndale. Below are my ribbon cutting ceremony comments: It’s a pleasure today, on behalf of the Ferndale City Council and Mayor Coulter, and the Ferndale community to […]
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Fair Dinkum: Park Ingenuity
Fair Dinkum: Aussie slang that means true, real, genuine. In 1998, I lived in Tasmania, Australia as an exchange student. I was 14. During my year abroad, I went on a two-week trip with 30 other exchange students through the center of Australia to Uluru (the big monolith). We drove and camped during our tour […]
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The Way Finding Trees
Sometimes I wonder how I navigated getting myself from one destination to another–BGM (Before Google Maps). Before GIS mapping came ubiquitous on smart phones, I relied on AAA Trip Tickets to show me the travel directions from one state to another. Before AAA Trip Tickets, and in navigational mystery emergencies, a rolled up tattered metro […]