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Vacation Sex, Glacier Snowmobiles and realizations

September 29, 2018by tomwhitman Leave a comment

I thought sex on vacation was supposed to be easy.  And constant.  I’ve always had a lot more sex on vacation than I do during my regular life. Okay, I totally […]

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Dreaming of Gay Vikings

September 29, 2018by tomwhitman Leave a comment

Iceland flickers from the exotic to familiar, and back. Daylight stretches for 16 hours, and it’s already fall and the days have been shortening for a few months.  This is […]

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Once in a Lifetime Lucky in Akureyri

September 29, 2018by tomwhitman Leave a comment

Akureyri sees itself as the second city of Iceland, anchoring the north with galleries and shops and a quirky outlook facing the Arctic circle, which is a short ferry ride […]

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Iceland: Landscapes and Drama

September 25, 2018by tomwhitman Leave a comment

On the second half of our trip, after a particularly tense day, as I drove silently, he asked “Can I talk to you about something?” That’s generally a scary opening. […]

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Angel and I in Iceland

September 25, 2018by tomwhitman Leave a comment

Angel doesn’t act like a Type A personality, until it comes to travel.  But he’ll be the first to admit, that if he feels like he’s not getting the absolute […]

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Vacationing versus Traveling: Iceland, pt 1.

September 25, 2018by tomwhitman Leave a comment

There’s vacationing and there’s traveling. Vacationing is when there aren’t that many decisions to make.  You’re in a resort and the biggest choice you make in the afternoon is what color […]

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Endings and Beginnings

January 16, 2017by tomwhitman Leave a comment

Jan 12, 2017 The older woman who twisted me into avant garde origami giggled as I grunted and heaved and yelped in pain.  Angel was behind a curtain a couple […]

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Rock climbing, “The Beach,” and Sauvignon Blanc

January 16, 2017by tomwhitman Leave a comment

January 11, 2017 Krabi stretches for miles along the Andaman Sea.  The same limestone cliffs that pierce the sky of Vang Vieng and the ocean of Halong Bay dot the […]

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Living Like a Big Gay Monkey

January 15, 2017by tomwhitman Leave a comment

January 8th, 2017 In the laid-back Loatian capital of Vientiane, we ride ancient bicycles complete with baskets and bells to the Pha That Luang – a giant golden announcement of […]

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Drunken tubing, sweaty caves and karst climbing

January 12, 2017by tomwhitman Leave a comment

January 7, 2017 Vang Vieng has an outdated reputation as a backpacker paradise of drinking and partying.  Five years ago the communist government got sick of the number of deaths […]

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