Canada

Have been to Canada many times as a child and young adult traveling with my family during the summer, during running events, visiting work colleagues and vacationing in Vancouver.

Traveled to Toronto while in college, and in 2006 ran marathons in Toronto and Quebec.

 

Uzbekistan

"We travel not for trafficking alone. By better winds our fiery hearts are fanned. For lust of knowing what should not be known We take the Gold Road to Samarkand." These are the final 4 lines of poet James Elroy Flecker’s The Golden Journey to Samarkand. Ok, so I...
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Moldova

Cleaning up the parks and streets in Moldova for Independence celebration! Took a trip organized by MIR Travel which started out in Moldova, then to Ukraine, on to Belarus, Lithuania, and ended in Latvia. The capital of Moldova is Chișinău. Moldova declared its...
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Djibouti

Lake Assal, the lowest point in all of Africa Country Information: The capital is also Djibouti. About 900,000 people live here and the official languages are French and Arabic. Islam is the dominant religion. The time zone is 7 hours ahead of EST. Jim's Perspectives:...
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