| Derniers ajouts - Round the World |
Marjorie and Chase on the Dockvu 708 foisSomewhere in the Caribbean, one of the stops on our Windstar cruise. Summer 199206 Mars 2006
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Marjorie Waiting For Our Car in Las Vegasvu 839 foisAt the MGM Grand Hotel. Note that Marjorie is holding some dollar bills in her right hand -- you need to be ready with the tips in Las Vegas.06 Mars 2006
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Marjorie Enjoying a "Sundowner" on the Mekong Rivervu 823 foisTaking a sunset boat ride on the Mekong, near Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.06 Mars 2006
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Cao Dai Temple -- Tay Ninh, Viet Namvu 1421 foisFor more information click here. The official website, as best I can tell, is here. Marjorie and I visited the temple, which is near Ho Chi Minh City, on our visit to Viet Nam.06 Mars 2006
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Unblinking Eye -- Cao Dai Temple, Viet Namvu 6839 foisThe unblinking eye is the symbol of the Cao Dai faith, founded in 1926 in Viet Nam. "Cao Dai venerates a host of different figures including Victor Hugo, Sun Yat Sen, and Trangh Trinh, a 16th century Vietnamese poet and philosopher. Its ethics are based in the belief in the reincarnation of the soul." There are 7 to 8 million adherents, mostly in Viet Nam.06 Mars 2006
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Cao Dai Temple -- Tay Ninh, Viet Namvu 6186 foisShowing the altar and the unblinking eye, which "symbolises the divine presence of God."06 Mars 2006
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Cao Dai Temple Eye - Tay Ninh, Viet Namvu 5668 fois"There are eyes throughout the massive temple that stare down, unblinkingly. The eye symbolizes God as He appeared in the first vision establishing the Cao Dai faith in 1926."06 Mars 2006
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The View From Our Hotel in Northern Norwayvu 845 foisThe brown industrial building is the rest of our hotel. We were in the "annex" on the top of the hill. Can you imagine four (or so) months of cold darkness here?04 Mars 2006
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Marjorie With a Tank at the Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Namvu 811 foisWe read about this museum and were curious. We had to specifically ask our guide to take us. There was nobody else there. The whole museum was dusty and forgotten, something left over (barely) from another time, another place. I'd be surprised if it's still there.04 Mars 2006
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Ho Chi Minh City "Museum of War Remnants" with a Helicoptervu 745 foisFrom the New York Times of July 1999: "The city's Museum of War Remnants, with its displays of captured weapons and its catalog of horrors, only recently amended its name, with changing times, from the Museum of American War Crimes." We were there before it changed its name. Our guide didn't want to take us, and felt very awkward about it all.04 Mars 2006
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Nordkapp -- North Cape -- Norwayvu 710 foisThe monument at Nordkapp, the most northerly part of Europe. Photographed at midnight.04 Mars 2006
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The Midnight Sun at Nordkapp, Norwayvu 710 foisPhotographed at midnight, showing the sun still above the horizon at the most northern point of Europe.04 Mars 2006
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