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Own your own Taylor lawn bowls. One...

Pinehurst: Jane Jacobs and the positive side of Nimbyism

I attended the December 2, 2025 public...

Gingery Pork and Snap Pea Stir Fry

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Peter Nelson’s travels – Australian photos

by Peter Nelson As winter has descended on us, it might be nice to think about a warmer clime.

Peter Nelson’s travels – The end at Land’s End

by Peter Nelson “Hanging on for dear life” is a phrase you hear a lot, but it never applied to me until now. I had eight fingers supporting my entire...
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Peter Nelson’s travels – Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand

by Peter Nelson  Queenstown. Sucks. You cannot imagine. I got here on Queen’s Birthday weekend and it was so crowded there was not even elbow room in the...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Still in Dunedin

by Peter Nelson  Jocelyn needless to say is a very welcome rosy-cheeked sight.  The same old scenario playing out once more to a slightly different...

Peter Nelson’s Travels – Dunedin South Island

by Peter Nelson Ah well, the healing music of the open road works its swiftly numbing magic, the endless song of them ole trees flashin’...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Christchurch, New Zealand

by Peter Nelson  Christchurch, South Island, and holy judas is it cold.  I know this is winter, but we’re not that far from the tropics,...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Group grope on North Island

A word of advice: Never land in New Zealand on a holiday weekend!  We just happened to hit the tarmac of Auckland Airport on...

Peter Nelson’s travels – North Island New Zealand – photographic preview

by Peter Nelson Unfortunately, I have no stories of my time in North Island.  I guess all my girlfriends of those days just turfed my...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Goodbye to the islands

by Peter Nelson  Litia, the village teacher, speaks English, as does Koroi, of course, so once again, communication is not much of a problem.  Anyway,...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Going native in Fiji

 by Peter Nelson Somehow we find Asena, Koroi’s sister, and she makes space for us in her family’s hut.  No roads, no conventional buildings, no...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Fiji

by Peter Nelson  The sky above, the mud below.  Quite literally.  A beginning most inauspicious. We got off the plane at Nadi (pronounced “NAN-dee”), and left...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Pacific Part 2 – Western Samoa

by Peter Nelson  Great luck right away.  Landed on Upolu, the main island, hitched into Apia, and after one look around at yet another dingy...

Peter Nelson’s travels – American Samoa

by Peter Nelson  In San Francisco, I bought a mileage ticket to Sydney, Australia.  With that kind of ticket, you can take up to a...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Alaskan notes – part 3

by Peter Nelson So the little critters weren’t much fun, but the big critters?  You might not believe this part of our tale.  Were there any...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Alaskan notes, part 2

by Peter Nelson I liked the great money I was making up north, and had made some good friends on the geophysical crew, so I...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Alaskan notes

by Peter Nelson Back in the mid-sixties, I lived just outside of Anchorage for a couple of years, and one of our favorite excursions was...
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