From an RTW: Places 1st and Once
Featured: Akaroa, New Zealand – 16 July 2012.
I am a Million Miler with American Airlines with an accumulated total of over 1.2 million air-miles flown. Many miles of travel have gotten me thinking about all the places where I’ve had the great fortune of living and visiting. During my year-long ’round-the-world’ (RTW) in 2012, my frequent-flyer standing allowed me to get affordable convenient flights within the U.S. and to use business-class lounges with Oneworld partner airlines elsewhere.
I visited these places for the first time: San Miguel de Allende in México; Nassau in the Bahamas; Mekong River Delta in Vietnam; Singapore; New Zealand’s South Island; Adelaide, Canberra, and Perth in Australia; Cape Town in South Africa; Edinburgh in Scotland; and Cuxhaven in Germany. I’ve yet to return to these locations, but the following visuals remind me why I want to go back.
México: San Miguel de Allende
Calle Quadrante – 4 March 2012.
Bahamas: Nassau
Junkanoo Beach – 3 May 2012.
Vietnam: Mekong River
River navigation and commute – 26 June 2012.
Singapore
Across the Kallang river to Marina Bay Sands – 3 July 2012.
Aotearoa: Te Waipounamu
Aotearoa: Kā Tiritiri o te Moana
Aotearoa: Piopiotahi
Milford Sound – 25 July 2012.
Australia: Kangaroo Island
Mum and joey: Hanson Bay Wildlife Sanctuary – 25 August 2012.
Australia: the A.C.T.
National Carillon and Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra – 9 September 2012.
Australia: Fremantle
Fremantle Ports, where the Indian Ocean meets the Australian continent – 17 September 2012.
South Africa: Cape Town
From Clifton: the 12 Apostles and eastern Atlantic Ocean – 13 October 2012.
Scotland: Edinburgh
From Calton Hill – 8 November 2012
Germany: Cuxhaven
Kugelbake tower, Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park – 3 January 2013.
I made all the photos above; alle Fotoaufnahmen sind mit Wasserzeichen versehen worden. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins.com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-cUR.
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12 Responses to “From an RTW: Places 1st and Once”
Henry, you have not only accumulated that many miles, rather more than that, amazing uncountable images you have shared with us. Cheers to that! Well ,keep on travelling.
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Thanks for your kind comment, Cornelia! I wish I could continue my once frequent travels of years past. But had that been the case over the last few years, I would not have had the extra or “bonus” time with my father, and the extra ongoing time with my mother.
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Life is full of coincidences. I’ve been to all of the places in your post except San Miguel which I’d never heard of until just TODAY when a friend told me all about how fantastic it is. They are going there this month. Must add it to my bucket list! Beautiful post
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Hi, Tina. Thank you for stopping by and for your comment. That is a remarkable set of coincidences! I really like Mexico City and, thanks to my friends who once lived there, we went up to San Miguel de Allende for a weekend. It is beautiful and charming and the people are lovely. But I heard a lot of English spoken in town which got me to thinking about what long-time residents must think of the rapid growth: is the evolution for the town and her people or for short-term visitors?
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What colorful photos! Tanks for sharing!
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Thank you, Elisabeth!
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Thank goodness for frequent flyer air miles, we reap the rewards at looking at these places.
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Hi! It became apparent that I was enjoying the travel and discovery far more than the reasons why I was traveling in the first place. I have many frequent flyer air miles to thank, and to that, I am in total agreement! 😊
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Thank you for the fabulous world-wide tour! These photos are stunningly beautiful!
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Hi, Amy: thanks for stopping by and for your comment!
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Fantabulous.
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Thanks!
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