RIDING THE RAILS - UNDERCOVER

RIDING THE RAILS - UNDERCOVER

As I stepped onto Car 631, I smiled.  There are so few opportunities in life to completely let go, and I was ready to be invisible (except to a bunch of strangers also trying to get off the grid).  Goodbye office; hello majestic mountains, colorful buttes, and whitewater rivers.  The rhythm of my life was about to be gauged only by meals.  And none of them would be at my desk...

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A TREEHOUSE, A RUM SHACK, AND BARBADOS BLISS

A TREEHOUSE, A RUM SHACK, AND BARBADOS BLISS

We bought fresh fruit from roadside stalls, ate lunch along the cliffs, and marveled at the surfers riding giant turquoise waves.  "Ghost roads" led us through abandoned sugar cane fields.  Then, one afternoon Duncan and I found ourselves helplessly lost, and we ended up in a spot we'll never forget.  It was traveler nirvana...

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