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Sagrada Familia Basilica
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Return to Barcelona

Barcelona. I haven’t been there since 1992. Today’s Barcelona is sprawling and majestic, much as it was in 1992, just more. When I gazed across the cityscape from the patio of Fabra Observatory, near the top of Tibidabo, the tableau of city and Mediterranean stretched along the coastline.

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Wilmington Where?

Wilmington? Vermont? It was a one stop-light town in the way on my way to Mount Snow. I always drove into town, turned right at that light and never once stopped. That changed this weekend in my efforts to travel on the New England Masters Ski Racing circuit in an old-style way, keeping costs down and when traveling alone, basically looking for those 70s and 80s type cheap motels that a single is willing to stay i

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Buenos Aires, Argentina, light and statues. ©Mark D Phillips
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A Hot New Year in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires. My first time in Argentina, my first time in South America. 15 million people and the city is thriving. It’s a traveller’s dream location.

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Return To Morrow

Two years ago, I was convinced I was witnessing the end of Blue Mesa and Morrow Point Reservoirs and the west as we knew it. What a difference above-average snowfall can make.

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The West in Connecticut

The Goshen Stampede brings Pro Rodeo just up the road in Goshen, CT, with country star Travis Denning headlining the Country 92.5 Stage.

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Salt and Green water mark the edges of the shoreline along the Dead Sea near Ein Gedi, Israel, in 2022. ©Mark D Phillips
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The Dead Sea in Despair

Andrea Peyser and I had frolicked in the buoyant water at Ein Gedi on the sea’s northern basin in 1992. Now in 2022, the resort is abandoned, a decaying ghost town in the middle of sinkholes — a nightmare scene out of a science fiction novel, fenced off and marked with DANGER signs. When the Ein Gedi Spa resort closed in March 2020, the water had receded 2½ miles away (4 kilometers).

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Liza Phillips with Gold Medal
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USA Field Hockey takes Gold in double overtime, shootout

Liza Phillips with Gold Medal Liza Phillips and Gianna Duddy The USA Field Hockey team defeated Argentina to bring home GOLD in a nail-biting, TWO overtime, 6-5 shootout victory at the 21st Maccabiah games in Israel. After a scoreless first half, the Americans scored two unanswered goals in the third

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Rachel Katzenberg cheers with a small US flag as she marches into Teddy Stadium for the 21st Maccabiah opening ceremony. ©Mark D Phillips
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The Sports World Comes to Jerusalem

The 21st Maccabiah opened with a parade of 10,000 athletes at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem with US President Joe Biden joining Israel’s President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Yair Lapid in attendance.

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