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Belfast
Edinburgh "mile" above and castle below
Guarding the Belfast castle
London, KY ???
Where's the niblick, brassie, and spoon
Open since 1828 in Belfast N Ireland
Working women tribute in N Ireland
Outside Belfast
Ireland's Big Ben?
Belfast zoo gorillas
Belfast castle
Island boys even splash in cold weather
Belfast
IRELAND
Belfast cannon
Irish trees above and below
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Traveller's rate the best places to retire
Many online polls rate the best beaches, places to live, vacation, and the ultimate retirement locations, and one fact became clear quickly to travellerdane correspondents, it's some of the same places in all categories and it always has been. There were ten categories compared and affordability was a key because all things considered, retirees should want bang for their buck and a 1300. social |
Travels in Asia and Pacific IV Travel photos from across the Pacific and Asia including Japan, Okinawa, China S Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Micronesia including Yap, Chuuk, Guam, Pohnpei, Palau, Kosrea, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia including Borneo, Singapore, Indonesia including Iran Jaya, Bali, Flores, Komodo, Sabah, Nepal, India, Burma or Myanamar, and of course the old raised limestone Northern Marianas Islands including Rota, Tinian, and the young traveller's home in Saipan
Brad Pitt did "7 years in Tibet" and 2013 marks "7 years in Micronesia" for Dane Hodges living in and traveling out of Micronesia in pictures!
Seven years from Micronesia
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Dane Hodges back home in Saipan in time for sunset
Micronesia boys travel by canoe |
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First picture of 2013
White tip shark passes Goat Island
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Dane strolls with Buddhist monks in an Ancient City at Chang Mai Thailand |
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Dane's 7 years from Micronesia part II
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Dane blazes the trail |
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Dane explores the ancient ruins of Angkor Wat Cambodia |
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Dane Hodges rides the rail across Thailand
The amazing Philippines is almost home to Dane
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Dane plays on a Micronesian beach |
Great Wall of China is Asia's best place to walk or run
Dane fishes at sunset
Oh Korea!
Dane in the temples of SE Asia
Where else
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Seven years in Micronesia with Dane Hodges
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First picture of 2013
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Dane strolls with Buddhist monks in an Ancient City at Chang Mai Thailand |
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Dane flanked by Mom in pink and brother Josh in black in Beijing China |
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Micronesian beaches are remote
Dane breaks at the Great Wall at Mutianyu China
Wangfujing Street Beijing China
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Now those elephants over in Africa are...
Dane rides a rickshaw
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Landmarks of the Marianas Islands and Pacific Rim with Dane Hodges
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Dane Hodges at Bird Island Saipan in Marianas Islands |
Agrihan fumarole field - Agrihan, volcano crater. Approximately 100 x 100 m large fumarole field in the exotic crater of Agrihan.
Asuncion Island - Asuncion. Several volcanoes of Mariana Islands look like almost perfect cones but Asuncion possibly is the most impressive one. Volcano is rising 857 m tall above the sea and |
Thailand...touring Siam with Dane Hodges
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Travel day in Siam, Dane Hodges |
Everyone loves Thailand is a common comment among tourists and travelers; Thailand has it all is another. It’s no surprise to anyone who has ever been there that it is the most popular destination in all of Asia, and the title is well disserved.
Dane Hodges LOVES Thailand, and how could you not? Whether you prefer the southern beaches, the mountainous north, the jungles of
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Micronesia..lost in time
Imagine thousands of islands and then spread them across millions of square miles in the vast southwest Pacific, then open yours eyes to a beach that runs as far as you can see...welcome to Micronesia; a land lost in time. So many islands, so many tranquil beaches, so remote, so deserted, so many lost ship wrecks, so much lost treasure, and so vast it is hard to comprehend. |
The Traveller's Seven 7 Wonders of the World
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Dane Hodges relaxes in the ancient ruins, Cambodia |
Six year old Dane Hodges has assembled his natural, ancient, and modern Wonders of the World, and also included the top 50 sites and Wonders of the Pacific and Orient. Dane also included 7 Wonder Islands, Beaches, and the 7 Wonders of the Underwater World. His "list" wound up with nine sites in China, and six apiece respectively for
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Guam AP-Breaking News...James Cameron beats field to
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Dane Hodges swims his native Marianas Trench National Monument | the bottom of the Marianas Trench National Marine Monument
Saipan AP-Dane Hodges optimistic after Trench race loss
Saipan - AP More breaking news 6-1-12...China to send Sea Dragon to bottom on marianas Trench...see bottom of this blog
James Cameron has made it to the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the ocean, and the world |
The city, sites, and people of Beijing with Dane Hodges
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Dane Hodges climbs Great Wall Mutianyu,China |
Dane flew into Tianjin and after several nights exployering the old port city, the little traveller took the 90 mile 24 minute bullet train ride to the south Beijing station. Ancient Peking in the hutong region is as charming as Beijing is amazing. The sights are fantastic, and the public transportation representative of Chinese
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Northern Marianas Islands...the turquoise Sea of Saipan
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Dane Hodges fishing Saipan, CNMI |
The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), is a commonwealth in political union with the United States, occupying a strategic region of the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of 15 islands about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to the Philippines. The United States Census Bureau reports the total land area of all |
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Dane Hodges visits the Karen hilltribes in Burma ( Myanmar) |
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Dane Hodges fishes in the afternoon |
February - Forbidden Island & Bird Island
March - Managaha Island & Tinian
May - Rock Islands, Palau
June - Palawan, Philippines
July - Hanoi, Vietnam to Saigon & Bali, Indonesia
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Dane Hodges near Angkor Wat moat, Cambodia |
Cambodia occupies 181,040 square kilometers of peninsular Southeast Asia. Modern Cambodia is bordered by Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, and the Gulf of Thailand, which is a part of the South China Sea. It is all that remains of the once-powerful Khmer empire that flourished in the ninth through the twelfth centuries and dominated much of mainland Southeast Asia. The population is approxamatly 12 million.
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| Fire one, Dane Hodges and Mom snow play in Cincy |
Dane Hodges finally plays America! Dane was tasked with ranking his 2011 travels that included 29 flights, four train trips, 14 countries, and most every means of transportation one could imagine from rickshaws and elephants to Jeepneys, baht buses, bullets, to flat bottom river rafts, and some would be stunned by the results!
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Imagine thousands of islands and then spread them across millions of square miles in the vast southwest Pacific, then open yours eyes to a beach that runs as far as you can see...welcome to Micronesia; a land lost in time.
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Dane Hodges plays with Japanese WWII canon, Saipan |
Micronesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It is distinct from Melanesia to the south, and Polynesia to the
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Borneo... Dane Hodges in the old rainforest
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Dane Hodges in rainforest canopy, Borneo |
The Borneo rainforest is 130 million years old, making it the oldest rainforest in the world and 70 million years older than the Amazon rainforest. Borneo is very rich in biodiversity compared to many other areas (MacKinnon et al. 1998). There are about 15,000 species of flowering plants with 3,000 species of trees (267 species are dipterocarps), 221
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Dane Hodges eats Pineapple rice with mom, Burma |
The history of Burma (Myanmar) covers the period from the time of first-known human settlements 11,000 years ago to the present day. The earliest inhabitants of recorded history were the Pyu who entered the Irrawaddy valley from the north c. 1st century BCE. By the 4th century CE, the Pyu had founded several city states as far south as Prome (Pyay), and adopted Buddhism. Farther south, the Mon, who had entered from |
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