Patricia Borns's Posts - Tripatini2024-03-28T10:12:34ZPatricia Bornshttps://frugalnomads.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBornshttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/65758134?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://frugalnomads.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=0gm4umq0965xw&xn_auth=noVIDEO Domino fever in Miamitag:frugalnomads.ning.com,2013-09-01:3169359:BlogPost:5370242013-09-01T16:30:00.000ZPatricia Bornshttps://frugalnomads.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBorns
<p><span>Double sixes, double nines, in Creole, patois and Español – Miami plays dominoes with passion!</span></p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/31951311">Domino Fever</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/patriciaborns">Patricia Borns</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p><span>Double sixes, double nines, in Creole, patois and Español – Miami plays dominoes with passion!</span></p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/31951311">Domino Fever</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/patriciaborns">Patricia Borns</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>A Month In the Sun For Under $2,000tag:frugalnomads.ning.com,2012-12-07:3169359:BlogPost:4346972012-12-07T16:01:36.000ZPatricia Bornshttps://frugalnomads.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBorns
<p>If your pockets have more holes in them than money, I have two words for you: Dominican Republic.</p>
<p>Read on at <a href="http://bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/travel/2012/12/02/southwestern-dominican-republic-offers-affordable-adventure/cxSVlPP5RwSujinyL4FfhP/story.html" target="_blank">BostonGlobe.com</a>. …<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/73869843?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/73869843?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"></img></a></p>
<p>If your pockets have more holes in them than money, I have two words for you: Dominican Republic.</p>
<p>Read on at <a href="http://bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/travel/2012/12/02/southwestern-dominican-republic-offers-affordable-adventure/cxSVlPP5RwSujinyL4FfhP/story.html" target="_blank">BostonGlobe.com</a>. <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/73869843?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/73869843?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750" class="align-center"/></a></p>Haiti: The Audacity of Beautytag:frugalnomads.ning.com,2012-05-28:3169359:BlogPost:3986552012-05-28T12:52:49.000ZPatricia Bornshttps://frugalnomads.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBorns
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<div>Haiti and travel aren't words that naturally pair in our minds. But photojournalist Maggie Steber, who's visited and revisited the country on and off assignment for 30 years, sees beauty there. As reported in…</div>
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<div>Haiti and travel aren't words that naturally pair in our minds. But photojournalist Maggie Steber, who's visited and revisited the country on and off assignment for 30 years, sees beauty there. As reported in <a href="http://www.outsideonline.com/blog/outdoor-adventure/photographing-haiti-for-25-years.html" target="_blank">Outside Magazine</a> and the <a href="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/quietly-finding-haitis-audacious-beauty/" target="_blank">New York Times Lens Blog</a>, there's plenty of beauty in Steber's images and stories showcased in her new website <a href="http://www.audacityofbeauty.com" target="_blank">Audacity of Beauty</a>.<br/> <br/> "Maybe it's not what we outsiders would recognize as beauty," says Steber in a series of videos on the site."Maybe it's an audacious idea that there's beauty in poor places. But in Haiti, it exists ... ." Steber hopes the site will help people see Haiti beyond the country of natural and political disasters, to the Haiti of culture, dignity, hope, and - yes - beauty.</div>A Village to Love in St. Luciatag:frugalnomads.ning.com,2011-02-15:3169359:BlogPost:1369772011-02-15T05:45:22.000ZPatricia Bornshttps://frugalnomads.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBorns
<div>In Laborie, fishermen still leave the beach each morning in their bright boats – one of the boats is a traditional gommier made from a hollowed tree trunk – and return to the conch’s blast, bringing locals to the shore to buy their catch. ... (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.boston.com/travel/blog/2011/02/a_village_to_lo.html">full post</a>)<br/><br/></div>
<div>In Laborie, fishermen still leave the beach each morning in their bright boats – one of the boats is a traditional gommier made from a hollowed tree trunk – and return to the conch’s blast, bringing locals to the shore to buy their catch. ... (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.boston.com/travel/blog/2011/02/a_village_to_lo.html">full post</a>)<br/><br/></div>Were you watching?tag:frugalnomads.ning.com,2010-12-21:3169359:BlogPost:1215342010-12-21T15:34:57.000ZPatricia Bornshttps://frugalnomads.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBorns
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A bleary-eyed image as Ron and I watched the morning’s total lunar eclipse from our frosty yard on Amelia Island at about 3 a.m. The thought of earth’s own shadow brushing the moon’s surface with a blush of brown-red. Peace on earth?</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A bleary-eyed image as Ron and I watched the morning’s total lunar eclipse from our frosty yard on Amelia Island at about 3 a.m. The thought of earth’s own shadow brushing the moon’s surface with a blush of brown-red. Peace on earth?</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wishing you comfort and joy!</span></span></p>
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<p>“The chase is all,’’ my mother used to say about men. I think of this in the prickly mangrove bush where I've been waiting, curled like a pretzel since dawn, as my subjects take off the second before my shutter clicks.</p>
<p>“Flamingos are tough,’’ says our guide, Colin Ingraham, a master of understatement. They pierce the sky in long, pink-and-black arrows, taking flight each time we come within a certain distance — always beyond the focal length…</p>
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<p>“The chase is all,’’ my mother used to say about men. I think of this in the prickly mangrove bush where I've been waiting, curled like a pretzel since dawn, as my subjects take off the second before my shutter clicks.</p>
<p>“Flamingos are tough,’’ says our guide, Colin Ingraham, a master of understatement. They pierce the sky in long, pink-and-black arrows, taking flight each time we come within a certain distance — always beyond the focal length of my lens.</p>
<div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>Since childhood I’ve had a thing for flamingos. Yellowed notebooks show I doodled them in school. Africa being outside the budget, I’ve come to the ends of the Bahamian earth, with my sister Laurie and niece Erin, to photograph the pinup of birds.</p>
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<div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>When Nassau was just a fishing village, Great Inagua was the Bahamas’ first port of entry, on a world shipping lane, the Windward Passage. Closer to Cuba and Haiti than to Grand Bahama, it stands apart in every way. Henagua, the island’s earlier name, is thought to come from the Spanish “lleno’’ (full) and “agua’’ (water), suggesting Inagua was named for its freshwater stores. But it is also likely that the Spanish found salt here. From the Henagua Salt Pond Co. in 1848, to the Ericksons of Swampscott in 1936, to Morton Salt today, salt defines the 20-by-40-mile island. Salt creates jobs for its 1,200 residents and food for its West Indian flamingos — the largest colony in the Western Hemisphere.</p>
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</div>It's all good at Calabash Literary Festival in Treasure Beach, Jamaicatag:frugalnomads.ning.com,2010-12-06:3169359:BlogPost:1161272010-12-06T20:30:00.000ZPatricia Bornshttps://frugalnomads.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBorns
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Imagine being lifted in a bubble and gently set on a headland by the sea. Famous people casually introduce themselves: “Hi, my name is Cristina [‘Dreaming in Cuban’ novelist Cristina García], and this is Russell [‘Affliction’ author Russell Banks].’’</p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Far from Negril and Montego Bay, I was in the Jamaican breadbasket of St. Elizabeth parish, among tawny beaches and funky guest houses with…</p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Imagine being lifted in a bubble and gently set on a headland by the sea. Famous people casually introduce themselves: “Hi, my name is Cristina [‘Dreaming in Cuban’ novelist Cristina García], and this is Russell [‘Affliction’ author Russell Banks].’’</p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Far from Negril and Montego Bay, I was in the Jamaican breadbasket of St. Elizabeth parish, among tawny beaches and funky guest houses with names like Irie Rest. Crumpled in my backpack was the paper that brought me here. Once a year in May, sleepy Treasure Beach gathers a world of authors to the Calabash International Literary Festival. I had come to be immersed in their company — and maybe read my work at the famous Calabash open mic. ... <a href="http://www.boston.com/travel/getaways/caribbean/articles/2010/12/05/wordsmiths_mingle_work_and_play_at_a_world_away/">Continue to full story and video</a></p>Ku hoe he’e nalu: To stand, to paddle, to surf a wave.tag:frugalnomads.ning.com,2010-07-04:3169359:BlogPost:646072010-07-04T16:05:59.000ZPatricia Bornshttps://frugalnomads.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBorns
<p>Catch the <a href="http://www.boston.com/travel/articles/2010/06/27/surf_inspired_sport_gives_paddling_new_perspective/">stand-up paddleboard (SUP) wave</a> in coastal NC and New England.</p>
<p>Catch the <a href="http://www.boston.com/travel/articles/2010/06/27/surf_inspired_sport_gives_paddling_new_perspective/">stand-up paddleboard (SUP) wave</a> in coastal NC and New England.</p>Muggle reports on grand opening of Wizarding World of Harry Pottertag:frugalnomads.ning.com,2010-07-04:3169359:BlogPost:646042010-07-04T15:30:00.000ZPatricia Bornshttps://frugalnomads.ning.com/profile/PatriciaBorns
<p><em>"All day the air rings with cries of “awesome’’ and “cool.’’ I have the feeling something transformative has happened, beyond what Universal expected. ... "</em></p>
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<p>Story and gallery <a href="http://www.boston.com/travel/">here</a>.</p>
<p><em>"All day the air rings with cries of “awesome’’ and “cool.’’ I have the feeling something transformative has happened, beyond what Universal expected. ... "</em></p>
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<p>Story and gallery <a href="http://www.boston.com/travel/">here</a>.</p>