tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28925234748546296812024-03-13T06:01:03.518-05:00TRAVELS and OBSERVATIONSGlen Novingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04452311290255933983noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2892523474854629681.post-87220102253101567262018-04-21T15:04:00.002-05:002018-04-22T07:28:33.745-05:00HUNGARY & THE STEPPE<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Each spring in the foothills of the western French Pyrenees there is the Village of Itxassou, which is known for 4 varieties of sweet dark cherries. During the first week of June it holds the Fete de la Cerise, or the Cherry Festival. This year, 2016, the Fete will be held on June 4 & 5. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Festival is like many small village festivals with traditional regional foods, parades, dances, and a sit down community food feast in the street. And, since this is a Cherry Festival, they feature any number of foods, jams, deserts, ice cream, cakes, and more made with cherries.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The one difference in 2016 Festival is that we are renting a house in Itxassou for the the month of June and will be attending the events personally as we walk from our house to the events on June 4 and 5.</span></b></span></div>
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Glen Novingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04452311290255933983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2892523474854629681.post-52563570212600332362016-05-08T19:41:00.002-05:002016-05-09T06:27:10.253-05:00SUMMER IN THE FRENCH BASQUE COUNTRY<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
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<b><span style="color: white;">Because of its critical physical position for bird migration out of Europe and Asia to Africa in the fall and back again in the spring, the Danube Delta attracts ornithologists and wildlife photographers from throughout the world. I took the photos that appear in this book during August and September of 2015 while touring and birding in the Delta. This wetland provides critical refuge for several globally threatened species and is home to 325 bird species, 43 species of mammals, and 135 species of fish. 70% of the world's white pelican population and 60% of the world's pygmy cormorants are resident in the Wetland. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The end of June and the first week of July, 2015, was a
great month for our trip to the Wabakimi Wilderness in northern Ontario. With a
group of 8 people and four canoes, after driving 500 miles north from Minneapolis, Minnesota,
and then taking Via Rail Canada into the center of the wilderness, we spent a week
canoeing in a arch north, west and then south through the preserve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the last day we were picked up by floatplane
and returned to Armstrong Station, our starting point on Via Rail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The trip was a change from our lives in the urban
grid in Austin, Texas, and gave us a chance to once more experience life in a
wilderness that has been little changed by man. We enjoyed <o:p></o:p></span>star
filled skies, unnamed lakes & streams, trees and spongy moss 6 inches deep,
and moose and timber caribou. Wabakimi is one of the few true wildernesses
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<b>WABAKIMI WILDERNESS CANOE PRESERVE</b></div>
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<b>Only once in a while does the opportunity come to explore and experience a true wilderness. This is what we will be doing the first week of July 2015 when 8 of us canoe into the center of the Wabakimi Wilderness Preserve in northern Ontario on a Sierra Club Outing led by Terry DeFraties. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Wabakimi is the world's largest wilderness canoe preserve with world-class wilderness canoeing, including over 2,000 kilometers of lake and river routes. The Preserve is a pristine wilderness with opportunities for wildlife viewing as well as sport fishing and hunting. It is situated on the traditional lands of several First Nation and Aboriginal communities. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Glen Novingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04452311290255933983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2892523474854629681.post-6155457894802237332015-01-11T23:25:00.004-06:002015-02-08T07:12:06.411-06:00DUBAI, TRUCIAL STATES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When I arrived in
Dubai in 1965 it was a much different country than it is this 50 years later.
In the mid 1960’s the Trucial States were little changed from the way they were
100 years before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Potable water was available
in a few places in the town of Dubai, but only for the past 3 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paved roads, or any prepared roads for that
matter, totaled only 10 miles in Dubai and for 1.5 miles south to what now
known as Jumeriah. The new Dubai airport had had a paved landing strip in the
sand of the desert for only 2 years. Agriculture was non-existent. There was no
manufacturing. And except for the local public market, the only business and
commerce was the smuggling of consumer goods to Persia, Pakistan, and gold
bullion and consumer goods to India. For most considerations there had been few
changes in Dubai in the past dozen or so decades.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So what is the brief
history of the Trucial States and Dubai, its principal population and
commercial center? “The Trucial States are a group of sheikhdoms in the southeastern
Arabian Gulf, previously known to the British as the 'Pirate Coast', which were
signatories to treaties (hence 'trucial') with the British government. These treaties
established a protectorate by Great Britain for the sheikhdoms, or emirates, from
1820 until December 2, 1971, when the seven principal trucial sheikhdoms became
independent. Six (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al Qawain and Fujairah)
were to form the United Arab Emirates on that day, the seventh - Ras Al Khaimah
- would join the Federation on 10 February 1972.” –from Wikipedia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In the reality of
history as it has played out along the “Pirate Coast”, for many decades the
residents of the villages along the “Pirate Coast” had no reliable means of
livelihood. There was no agriculture and no manufacturing. There was fishing
for personal use and sale in the villages, a few date groves, and the
occasional camel or goat for meat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So in
order to survive the Pirate Coast preyed on the merchant ships of the Portuguese
and British as they passed thru the Indian Ocean on their way to the Far East
and back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pirates would come out of
the Arabian Gulf into the Indian Ocean and wait for a passing merchant ship,
which would be either poorly armed or not at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After taking over the ship, it would be taken
into the Arabian Gulf and after removing all merchandise and food they would
tear it apart for the use of the lumber in their houses and sailing vessels.
There were no trees or lumber along their part of the Arabian Gulf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the Portuguese first and then the
British suffered these attacks over 200 years or more, the British launched a
brutal attack with marines on the villages along the Pirate Coast, killing many
until those remaining agreed to sign a truce and halt their attacks on merchant
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I arrived in Dubai in
1965, just 6 years before the area was granted independence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So who there an American presence in Dubai in
1965? Continental Oil had signed an oil exploration agreement with Dubai and
specifically requested the establishment of an American bank to service their
banking needs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus First National City
Bank of New York, later known as Citibank, opened the first American bank there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, by the time Citibank opened the bank
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called Arab Bank and required the oil company to do all their banking with
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was in a similar position to the pirates in 1820.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the truce was signed in 1870, the Arabs
had no means of livelihood. So instead of pirating the merchant ships, they
began smuggling goods into Persia, Pakistan, and India.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time Citibank opened a bank branch in
the 1960’s, Dubai was an important center of commerce in the Middle East where
consumer goods and gold bullion was imported into Dubai for the sole purpose of
smuggling the same goods into markets in the Middle East and India where the
same goods were prohibited from import. So my job, and the major function of
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smugglers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In dollar value the gold
bullion was a large percentage of the total and it went almost totally to
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So with the history
of the “truce” that was forced upon the Pirate Coast by the British, you can
understand that there was some ill will on the part of the Arabs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But over the subsequent 150 years they were
able to utilize the support of the British to their advantage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been asked what the culture was like
and how the British affected it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under
the truce the Sheikh had authority over the Arab population and their commerce
and legal regulation. But the British has authority over all non-Arabs and in
addition the British handled the foreign and military affairs of the Trucial
States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consequently, there existed two
societies and cultures: the Arab-Moslem culture and society, which functioned
in Arabic and operated under the local laws and codes, and the
British-Christian culture and society which functioned in English and operated under
the laws of the British Crown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore, I and each of the non-Arabs were subject to the local British
Political Agent, as the representative of the British Crown. Unfortunately, very
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But <b style="text-decoration: underline;">What A Change.</b> We are all aware of the great changes that took place in Dubai after the discovery of oil in 1966! The photo below is only an indication of the changes that have taken place along the Dubai Harbor, as compared to the 1965 photo at the beginning of this article. Oil paid for this fantastic growth in Dubai. Now they are trying to reprogram their economy to commerce, medicine, and high tech industries to carry them forward into the future when oil may not contribute the same wealth as it has in the past 50 </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">years.</span></span></div>
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Water Pumps and Wells of France,<br />
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On June 4, 2010, I returned to Frankenstein, Saarland, in Germany. It might be more correct to say that I traveled to the village where my earliest known ancestor, Johaan Konrad Nabinger, was born in 1796, because I certainly had never been to Frankenstein before and in fact until recently didn't even know that Frankenstein played a part in our Family History.</div>
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But Frankenstein, a small village of only a few hundred people, today has 67 telephones registered to Nabingers who are living in or near the town. On June 4 I visited a Mrs. Manfred Nabinger, 80 years old, whose grandfather told her the story of 3 Nabinger brothers moving to Frankenstein from Switzerland in the mid 1600's. Unfortunately, no-one seems to know the names of the 3 brothers. The story tells of the 3 brothers arriving in Frankenstein where 2 stayed and one brother left for America.</div>
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Today, Frankenstein is a quiet village on a stream through the steep hills of southeastern Saarland. The highway passes through town and though the railroad passenger station is now closed, one can purchase train tickets from an automatic ticket dispenser for the occasional trains that still stop there. </div>
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Above the town stands the ruins of the Frandenstein Fort/Castle, a remnant of the days in the 1600s and early 1700s when the Nabingers left for America to escape the domination of the Palatine (palatinus in Latin, plural palatini). The Palatine was the local high-level official attached to the regional ruler or court. </div>
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Since the 1600s Frankenstein and Saarland were at times controled by various rulers from the east in what is now Germany and at other times controlled by rulers from the west in what is now France. At times parts of Saarland were independent. Today Saarland is a state of Germany and the people are German speaking. Unfortunately, the residents of Frankenstein have little knowledge of what happened to their long lost relatives who left for "America".</div>
Glen Novingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04452311290255933983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2892523474854629681.post-27052015838761549332008-01-27T13:09:00.000-06:002015-02-08T06:54:36.941-06:00PATZCUARO, MICHOACAN, MEXICO<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1CBaKnCZayk/R5yFSOBDWVI/AAAAAAAAAJs/hdK8tjhgpwM/s1600-h/Portals.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1CBaKnCZayk/R5yFSOBDWVI/AAAAAAAAAJs/hdK8tjhgpwM/s200/Portals.jpg" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160145821106395474" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" width="348" /></a><br />
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Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico, is located in the mountains 200 miles west of Mexico City at an elevation of 7200 feet. Michoacan is part of what is referred to as the Colonial Circle of Mexico, the area of greatest concentrated colonial settlement and development during the Spanish Colonial Period. <br />
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Most of what is now the state of Michoacan was controlled by the Purhepecha Indian Empire which numbered an estimated 3,000,000 members at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Even today there are still 130,000 Purhepecha Indian people that still speak the Purhepecha language.<br />
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The Purhepecha language and cultural traditions are strongly represented in the festivals of Michoacan and daily life of current day.<br />
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On the left are some examples of Purhepecha ceremonial masks.Glen Novingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04452311290255933983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2892523474854629681.post-89080346287513955531970-03-01T20:33:00.000-06:002015-02-08T06:53:48.426-06:00VISITS TO GRANPA and GRANDMA PENCE<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_1CBaKnCZayk/R5iqPOBDWNI/AAAAAAAAAIo/OfLUqJy7Rc0/s1600-h/Mom%27s+Pence+Family.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_1CBaKnCZayk/R5iqPOBDWNI/AAAAAAAAAIo/OfLUqJy7Rc0/s400/Mom%27s+Pence+Family.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159060551590172882" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>During my childhood years most of our trips were to visit either the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Novinger</span></span></span> Grandparents in La <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Plata</span></span></span>, Missouri, or the Pence Grandparents in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Steffenville</span></span></span>, Missouri. These trips were only 60 to 125 miles long, but due to bad unreliable roads and car tires, they sometimes turned into all day trips.<br />
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Our visits to Grandpa and Grandma Pence were always fun because of all of the adventures to be had. There was the big garden, the hen house, the pond for fishing, and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">squirrel</span> hunting with Grandpa. Then the meals were great. Grandma made chicken and hand rolled egg noodles, fried fish, fried squirrel, soda <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">biscuits</span>, and apple pie! Then for breakfast there were always lots of eggs with bacon, fried salt pork, pork chops and always soda <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">biscuits </span>and white <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">gravy</span>. And I got to sit on the white wooden bench.<br />
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Eggs and chicken were a staple at the Pence farm. Here in a photo taken in approximately 1917, Grandma Pence feeds her chickens with her oldest son, Joe, and her second daughter, Eula Maude, my mother. The chicken <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">coop</span> in the background was given to my Mom and Dad and I remember it on our farm in Iowa until I left for college in 1957.<br />
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From the time I was born until I left for college we spent most holidays with both of my grandparents and I remember them fondly.Glen Novingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04452311290255933983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2892523474854629681.post-70815626897497232281970-03-01T12:18:00.000-06:002015-01-04T18:15:06.818-06:00FIRST TRIP !<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">What kind of a trip would a child of 2 years, 7
months remember? It was the day our family moved from Gibbs, Missouri, to
Lucerne, Missouri: March 1, 1942.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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surrounded our house at the farm home where I was born, 2 miles south of Gibbs,
Missouri, and watching Dad and other men load the horses and cattle onto a
truck. There was a lot of noise and yelling, as the horses and cattle protested
their being loaded onto the truck. No doubt the main reason I remember that day is
because I was shut inside the yard fence and couldn't be closer to the action.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Then when the horses and cattle were loaded, we
followed the truck in our 1937 Chevrolet, pulling a four-wheeled wagon loaded
down with farm equipment. That was not remarkable for me at the time, but the
way I rode in the car was! The car was packed to the gills with household goods
and my baby crib mattress was stacked on top. I was then placed on top of the
mattress with my back practically touching the ceiling of the car.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">What I remember is lying there, looking out of the
top of the car windows as we moved to the new farm, 7 miles southeast of
Lucerne. Since 1942 I have traveled and lived in many parts of the world, but
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<strong>My first memory is when I was 2 years and 7 months old. It was my first trip and it was exciting! Since then trips of all types have been the pivotal points in my life. Each day, I have either been on a trip or planning the next one. It was not my goal to focus on travel. It just seemed to be an inescapable direction of my life. In this blog: "TRAVELS OF A LIFETIME" I will seek to recapture the memories and scen<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_1CBaKnCZayk/R5FEQxAdGGI/AAAAAAAAAEU/BSdARTdQ-yY/s1600-h/GN+-+5yrs.jpg"></a>es of some of my trips. Come share these experiences with me.</strong></div>
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