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Travel-related articles elsewhere on this website:  Osaka, Japan: 日本の貢献留学のブログ - Studying Japanese Art & Culture. Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada: When the Mountain's Too Hard to Climb.  Rocky Mountains, Colorado: Thirst. 

And a bonus: Vacations and the Enigma of Arrival 🛬🚉🚆

Traveltivity: Savannah, GA, USA

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Written by: Karen Smith-Will
Parent Category: Research
Category: Traveltivity

Screenshot 20241221 1630112Having lived in Jacksonville, FL, we've had multiple reasons to visit Savannah (and we have friends that live nearby). So when we moved to Richmond, we got used to staying in Savannah on our trips down to Florida...it's about as far as we can drive in one day. Like Jacksonville and Richmond, Savannah is a River City. As of today, each of these places still seems to be up and running. 

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Portugal: port wine, cork & tile

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Written by: Karen Smith-Will
Parent Category: Research
Category: Traveltivity

Recently, we've been a little closer to home. But oddly, 2 of our kids went to Portugal within a 6-month window--1 to Lisboa, and 1 to Porto.

What's the first thing that comes to mind, "a sense of place", about a destination?

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Wills & Mills (Penn Township, PA)

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Written by: Karen Smith-Will
Parent Category: Research
Category: Traveltivity

It sounds like the bad start of a children’s story…”Will Bill go to the Will Mill? Bill will climb a hill to reach Will Mill.” However, this writer is no Dr. Seuss, and this article discusses the Will family’s multiple generations of connection to Penn Township, Pennsylvania.

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