10 Second Vacations

I’ve been taking these mini-movies for years to share my travels with others. They aren’t all 10 seconds but that’s the idea: A brief escape; a fleeting immersion into a different time, place, sound, sight and feeling.

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Balmaha, on the banks of Loch Lomond, makes for a surprisingly lovely beach site. Assuming you actually get a sunny day, that is, which I didn’t for most of July!

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Breaking from the travel movies for a local one from my birthday. This is Olivia Chaney singing La Jardinera.  She’s wonderful, and you should all go see her if she’s playing near you.

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West Palm Beach looks nothing like what I imagined.

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The piney swamps of northern Georgia, as seen from a moving train.

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Sunrise through the trees of South Carolina’s swamps.

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Emerging from the Lehigh Tunnel into the light and air of Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia’s skyline, reflected in the mirrored glass of the Amtrak station.

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The “newsfeed building” I spotted reflected off a neighbour in Philadelphia.

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Sunset over Miami’s skyline, taken from the cruise ship.

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Clouds over Miami Beach.

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View across the harbour in Miami.

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First movement of the cruise ship out of Miami.

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St. Peter's Square in the Vatican, where the crowds are as established as the architecture. 

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This cow and I share more descriptors than I care to discuss, but at least I chew with my mouth closed.

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How do you play pool on the rolling seas? On a gyroscopic pool table, of course. American excess on display on the Brilliance of the Seas.

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My B&B in Civitavecchia was beside a large paddock housing a very friendly (often amorous) donkey and a total jerk of a horse. Here's a rare instance of them getting along, and the horse not trying to bite me.

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A wet day in Paris at the Marché d'Aligre weekly market.