Yeh, well, you’d best talk to Jamie if you’re interested, the barman said to us and nodded to a good-looking guy, perhaps in his early thirties, who was sitting with a companion at a table nearby. For a moment we hesitated and then decided that outright honesty was probably the be...
s curiosity. He frequently visited Tom’s stall (摊位) but didn’t buy. The next day, the man passed from one vendor (小贩) to the next, waving a bag around. But he didn’t visit Tom’s stall that day. Out of curiosity, Tom asked a vendor nearby to temporarily look after his ...
Near the small town of Grottoes, a dirt road goes from the house of Stephen Curry’s grandfather to the woods nearby. Along this road, Stephen’s grandfather built a simple ___59___ by attaching a piece of plastic to a telephone pole. Stephen spent many childhood hours playing on this ...
(码头) when Uncle Ralph and Dad were repairing boats nearby. The waves from the passing boat made Katie’s stroller shake strongly. “Kee-aah! Kee-aah!” Gulliver made the loudest cry. Dad and uncle rushed to Katie and stopped the stroller from falling into the water. They kept a close...
and you can start to understand how frustrating the birding experience can be in Ecuador – even for someone with broad experience in a number of other nearby countries (I’ve birded Costa Rica, Panama, and Honduras fairly extensively so I am familiar with many of the Neotropical bird familie...
If you’re not camping, stay in one of the nearby towns instead – Lajitas, Terlingua and Study Butte are all close by. 8. Terlingua If you’re visiting Big Bend, it’s worth a short detour to check out one of the quirkiest places in Texas: Terlingua. A town of only 127 people ...
- GPS readings with greater than 130 feet (40m) inaccuracies are filtered out and accurate locations of times nearby are used. - Airplane flights limits tracking, try to get near a window. - Days when you were in other time zones show the log in the other timezone times (annotated with...
run - move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time; "Don't run--you'll be out of breath"; "The children ran to the store" go across, pass, go through - go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terri...
If you're in Nice you have GOT to at least visit the nearby tiny country of Monaco to experience the glitz and glamour! It only takes about half an hour to drive to Monaco from Nice, plus the views from the clifftops out to the ocean are incredible. We joineda night-time tour to ...
By noon, I wandered through the Confucius Temple area. The smell of roasted duck and sesame pancakes filled the air as vendors called out from street stands. I tried a bowl of tangbao (soup dumplings), burning my tongue in my haste—a humorous reminder to slow down. Nearby, an elderly ...