Elephants Make My Dreams

This is the third in a series of weekly dispatches especially for Commercial Appeal readers from Audrey Gonzalez, who is on a two-month trek in the Himalayan region of Nepal. (Her daily blog is at www.audreygonzalez.com.) Smoke sits on Kathmandu like a comfortable sofa. It pillows in it because there is no breeze to take it [...]

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Beauty and Beast

This is the second in a series of weekly dispatches especially for Commercial Appeal readers from Audrey Gonzalez, who is on a two-month trek in the Himalayan region of Nepal. (Her daily blog is at www.audreygonzalez.com.) It’s the contrast that surprises a trekker in the Annapurna Range of Nepal. On the one hand you are in the [...]

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Kathmandu, Nepal

This week, Audrey Gonzalez  begins a two-month trek through the Himalayan regions of Nepal and (political conditions permitting) Tibet. Her guide is Jim Williams of Exploradus LLC. This will be her first weekly post especially for Commercial Appeal readers. More postings and pictures can be found at her personal blog, www.audreygonzalez.com. The brilliant colors on the people and houses [...]

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Reader Snapshots, March 2, 2008

    Brad Johnson,  a 2005 ECS graduate and a junior at Samford University, recently traveled to London for a January semester class in finance. He is pictured here in front of The Tower Bridge. While there, he and several other students went to Oxford and Edinburgh, Scotland. They brought in the New Year watching fireworks at The [...]

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Reader Snapshots Feb. 24, 2008

 Pattersons in St. Petersburg In celebration of their 39th  wedding anniversary, David and  Evelyn Patterson of Lakeland took a 12-day Baltic capitals cruise on the Norwegian Dream.  The highlight of the trip was St. Petersburg with tours to Peterhof, the favorite residence of Peter the Great, and the State Hermitage Museum. Here, the couple is standing in [...]

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