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Home Planet archive for Aug. 2012

MONDAY, AUG. 20, 2012

Tallinn, Estonia (Cheryl-Anne Millsap / Photo by Cheryl-Anne Millsap)

Traveling to Tallinn

(Photo by Cheryl-Anne Millsap) An acquaintance recently asked where I'd been that had surprised me the most and I didn't hesitate to answer. Tallinn, the beautiful and ancient Estonian city on the edge of the Baltic Sea, was surprising in many ways. Virtually unknown to…

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MONDAY, AUG. 13, 2012

 (Cheryl-Anne Millsap / Photo by Cheryl-Anne Millsap)

Traveling Mothers

(Photo by Cheryl-Anne Millsap) My son has been on a boat out on the Pacific for weeks now and every so often a few lines arrive by email. “This has been a great trip,” he writes “The hurricane turned so the seas are not so…

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SATURDAY, AUG. 4, 2012

Photographing the North Sawyer Glacier and Tracy Arm Fjord from the deck of the Disney Wonder during a 2012 Alaska cruise. (Cheryl-Anne Millsap / Photo by Cheryl-Anne Millsap)

Seattle to Alaska aboard the Disney Wonder

(Photo by Cheryl-Anne Millsap) The little boy stood beside the table that held the mini-iceberg, the chunk of ice that had once been a part of the North Sawyer Glacier before breaking away--calving-- and falling with a splash into the Tracy Arm fjord off Alaska’s…

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Cheryl-Anne Millsap's Home Planet column appears each week in the Wednesday "Pinch" supplement. Cheryl-Anne is a regular contributor to Spokane Public Radio and her essays can be heard on Public Radio stations across the country.



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