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Indiana, USA- Indianapolis 500

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Memorial Day Weekend · Indianapolis · Speed / Noise / Near Misses Trials The Best Way to Convert Money into Noise The Indy 500 is more than kissing bricks and drinking milk. It is speed, ritual, heat, lead changes, and drivers operating at the edge of disaster. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The Biggest Spectacle in Motorsports More Than Bricks and Milk Every Memorial Day weekend brings the Indianapolis 500. The winner kisses the bricks and drinks the milk, but it was too early for the end-zone dance. The race started tomorrow. Before the green flag, the archive did what archives do best: turned anticipation into memory. ...

West Sussex-Fields of Gold

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I Love Ewe Today, in England, our house is surrounded by the familiar green pastures and yellow fields we have come to adore.  Mother Nature has truly put the awe in awesome. Watching the west wind moving over the fields is like seeing waves on an ocean of emerlds and gold--- a sea of thoughts leads back to Stings lyrics.  Father Time makes promises to us and bonds strengthened by the cycles of the seasons. This perfect symmetry is summed up by Albert Camus-“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” and so the invisible has becomes visible today.

Cadiz, Spain

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Cádiz  the  ancient port city in the Andalucia region of southwestern Spain is still new. ...I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question unless I am in Spain because Spain is like a hundred countries in one. 

Rome Sweet Rome- Civitavecchia

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Civitavecchia is a coastal town northwest of Rome, in Italy. Built in the 2nd century, the Port of Civitavecchia still retains some of its original features, like the Roman Dock. The port is the quickest route to Rome, which we opted out this time due to a Cinderella liberty of 5pm. We instead headed out to Castello Orsini-Odescalchi, a castle in Bracciano, in the Province of Rome, Lazio, Italy. It is located on the southern shore of Lake Bracciano. It was built in the 15th century, and combines the functions of a military defence structure and a civilian residence

HONG KONG- TO SOUTHAMPTON

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Queen Mary 2 / World Cruise / 2018 The Long Way Home Hong Kong to Southampton The World Cruise finished today. What a ride it has been aboard Cunard’s most famous ocean liner—across oceans, through old ports, and back to Southampton by the route that made distance feel like the point. See Full Image Show Text Voyage Complete More Than Miles Our World Cruise finished today. The journey was more than mileage. It was a long sequence of arrivals that slowly changed what “home” meant. You have not really cruised until you have crossed the world on the last—and only—ocean liner, the Queen Mary 2. Hong Kong Dubai Rome Amalfi Cádiz Southampton 01 Archive Gateway Hong Kong to Southampton The final leg begins in Hong Kong and opens westward. These ...

Amalfi Coast. Italy

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Declared one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites for its undisputed beauty and the uniqueness of its natural landscape, it lived up to its repuation

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