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Pinehurst: Jane Jacobs and the positive side of Nimbyism

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Peter Nelson's Travels

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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 – Greece in the summer of love, part 2

by Peter Nelson  Anyway, we’re rescued by some understanding locals.  They come over to our table, pull up some chairs and join us and even...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Greece in the summer of love, part 1

by Peter Nelson  Hitched from Turkey into Greece with a Swiss girl I met in Istanbul.  Serena was very nice, but unfortunately, our relationship was...

Peter Nelson’s travels – first parachute jump, part 2

by Peter Nelson  Then, while you’re hanging onto that door frame for dear life, you hear the most horrid words you’ve ever heard: “Gimme a...

Peter Nelson’s travels – first parachute jump, part 1

by Peter Nelson  When we were training to be sky divers, we started from scratch.  Literally.  We even folded and packed our own parachutes.  At...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Argentina and points south

by Peter Nelson  Crossing the River Plate into Argentina, the day is cool and windy.  Buenos Aires is not as horrid as I’d expected.  But...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Southern Brazil and Uruguay

by Peter Nelson  Bill’s sister Melodie lives in Sao Paulo.  Sao Paulo’s the business and financial center of Brazil.  Periodically, it fights with Rio over...

Peter Nelson’s travels – The road to Rio

by Peter Nelson On the road outside Belem, I set a new (and so far unbroken) bad-luck hitching record.  Two days — TWO DAYS!! —...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Uaupes and down the Amazon

by Peter Nelson  Well, this could be the last hump in the road back to what passes for civilization, but it’s proving to be a...

Peter Nelson’s travels – In the middle of the jungle

by Peter Nelson  When last we saw our lonesome hero, he was bailing madly with a battered coffee can, desperately trying to keep a cracked...

Peter Nelson’s travels – San Fernando de Atabapo, Venezuela

by Peter Nelson  Time to move on.  Somewhere, at this point, “the decision” was made to continue upriver, to press on, not to go back...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela

by Peter Nelson   Ten days later, we pull into Puerto Ayacucho, and I hop ashore.  End of the line, I guess.  Don’t have a clue what...

Peter Nelson’s travels – On the Orinoco River

 by Peter Nelson A few garbled words with someone who may or may not be the captain of this vessel, and I step onto this...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Caracas and Ciudad Bolivar,Venezuela

by Peter Nelson   Caracas is where Virginia, Fernando’s older sister lives, and I’ve been using her address for mail since I left Costa Rica.  Virginia...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Tunja, Columbia

 Leaving Bogota, I’m on my own again.  Everyone else is either going back to North America or down to Cali, where magic mushrooms sprout in abundance.  Another sister of...
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