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Spending a Month in Burkina Faso and Ghana: Beth Underdahl-Peirce (Photo Gallery)

First Posted: 7/11/12 04:36 PM EDT Updated: 7/11/12 04:42 PM EDT
Burkina Faso and Ghana

Early in 2012, Beth Underdahl-Peirce spent a month visiting her brother, Jon, who was living in Burkina Faso. This is her story… On January 4, my parents and I flew to Burkina Faso, a country in western Africa, to visit my brother who was there with the Peace Corps. We had a 26-hour layover in Paris, so we explored the city on foot. We saw Notre Dame, the Louvre Museum, the Eiffel Tower, and other hot spots in Paris. After exploring the city on very little sleep, with my dad getting blisters bigger than a quarter on the bottom of his feet, and doing our best to stay warm and dry in rainy weather, we headed back to the airport [...]

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India—‘Land of the Maharajahs’: Claire and Thomas Nisonger (Photo Gallery)

First Posted: 6/12/12 01:51 PM EDT Updated: 6/13/12 09:39 AM EDT
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India

BY PAMELA KEECH For Claire and Thomas Nisonger, travel is romance. They honeymooned in Haiti and celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary by meeting at the Empire State Building. “Just like in the movies,” says Tom. Both are IU professors; she is a molecular biologist and he is retired from the School of Library and Information Science. Every college break, they’re on the road. They’ve been to more than 60 countries, including China, Russia, Vietnam, Mexico, Mongolia, Peru, Turkey, and Morocco. Last December they added India on a tour, “Land of the Maharajahs,” booked through General Tours, which creates private itinerary journeys. They had their own guide, car, and driver for two idyllic weeks. They began in Delhi, then traveled to [...]

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Egypt at a Pivotal Moment in History: John and Peggy Woodcock (See Gallery)

First Posted: 2/28/12 07:16 PM EDT Updated: 3/6/12 04:47 PM EDT
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John and Peggy Woodcock ride a tourist wagon around the pyramids, which were nearly deserted during the revolution. Courtesy photo (See gallery at bottom for more photos.)

BY PAMELA KEECH Last winter John and Peggy Woodcock—she an artist, he a retired professor of writing and literature—booked a tour to Egypt. “I had wanted to go there ever since I was a little girl,” says Peggy. Enter the Egyptian revolution. Their tour was canceled, though they still had their airline reservations. Should they go on their own? The couple watched hours of TV news before deciding to chance it. Peggy arranged their whole trip online, but they still had serious doubts about the wisdom of going at such a tumultuous and quite possibly dangerous moment. “The only time I was sure we were going was when we boarded the plane,” says Peggy. They arrived in Cairo on Thursday [...]

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A Taste of Ireland: Chef Daniel Orr and Mother Mary Lu (See Gallery)

First Posted: 2/28/12 03:54 PM EDT Updated: 3/6/12 04:48 PM EDT
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Dingle Peninsula. Photo by Daniel Orr (See gallery at bottom for more photos.)

BY PAMELA KEECH “My summer vacation…” begins Chef Daniel Orr, owner of FARMbloomington. “I was asked to be guest chef on a cruise ship and had promised my mother a cruise, so I took her with me.” This was the first transatlantic voyage for both Orr and mother, Mary Lu, of Columbus, Indiana—seven days at sea from New York City to Cork, Ireland. As they neared land, Orr had his camera ready. The varicolored houses along the harbor were his first shots. Throughout the trip, he photographed whatever caught his eye, from monuments to hen houses. “When I’m traveling I like to look at food, gardening, and art and see how it got there, from the ground up,” he says. [...]

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