Category Archives: TRAVEL/PHOTO Themes

KALAALLIT NUNAAT – Can’t Get You Outta’ My Head

Posted on March 27, 2019 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Extreme weather boots. Hat. Insulated gloves. Balaclava (baklava, optional) Back, neck, hand and foot heat packs Thermal socks…and…and…and. The list was long. About this time three years ago, I was packing for an arctic adventure. Thirty-six months ago, I had … Continue reading →

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#95

Posted on January 10, 2019 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Until I was six, I thought Uncle Sally’s name was Who-Gives-A-Sh*t. Everyone called him that – the neighbors, the few friends he had, his business associates, the family – even his mother, my Nana. She’d hoped the label wouldda’ forced her caro … Continue reading →

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NIGHTMARE ON UNTER DEN LINDEN – A Banned Books Week Tribute

Posted on September 28, 2018 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

It’s somehow fitting. The sweeping square is shrouded in silence, but for the dime-size drops of rain slapping the neatly laid cobbled stones under my feet. The typically bustling quad is empty too, except for the line of bicycles strung … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, Essay, EVENTS, IN MEMORIUM, TRAVEL/PHOTO Themes, VIEW FROM MY SOAP BOX | Tagged adventure, banned book week, Bebelplatz, Berlin, Book Burning 1933, D.G.Lambo, Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner | 4 Comments

HEY, RAPUNZEL ~ SURF’S UP!

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

The only thing missing from the stone tower resting up against a craggy cliff side along the southern California coast is a sixty-foot silken braid trailing from the top window slit to the rocky beach below. Well, maybe the thick, … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, HUMOR, ROAD TRIP, TRAVEL/PHOTO Themes | Tagged adventure, California coast, D. G. Lambo, Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner, La Tour at Laguna Beach, plastic pollution, Rapunzel, The Pirate Tower, travel vignette, Victoria Beach | 4 Comments

KALAALLIT NUNAAT – Man In The Icicle

Posted on August 9, 2018 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Winter Dissolving crystalline crust decomposing evaporating

Posted in ADVENTURES, ARCTIC WONDER, POEMS, TRAVEL/PHOTO Themes | Tagged adventure, adventures in Greenland, arctic travels, D.G.Lambo, Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner, Ittoqqortoormiit, KALAALLIT NUNAAT, poetry | 10 Comments

KALAALLIT NUNAAT – The Sun Sets on a Different World

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Quimmer. Stranded. Separated from his pack. About as visible as a grain of sand stuck to the smooth side of a seashell, the dog stands on a slab of sea ice floating atop the placid waves of Scorsbysund. Four days ago, … Continue reading →

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DESERT HIGH – Between Earth And Sky

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

“I’d rather be here, with you, than anywhere else in the world.” When the man in the mountain spoke, it wasn’t with words. A wave of warm air rippled across his furrowed forehead, crept over his craggy face, and burst … Continue reading →

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OUT OF THIS WORLD – Journey to the unknown

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Clouds of steam rise from bubbling pits on the pocked landscape. It smells like Beelzebub is venting a batch of burned hard-boiled eggs from his sizzling subterranean scullery far below our hiking booted feet.

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KALAALLIT NUNAAT – Through The Eyes Of A Potato

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

How long does it take for a potato to freeze? I wondered as the rotors whirred to life. It was April in the Arctic. We were on the last leg of our journey to spending eight days in a remote … Continue reading →

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GETTING STONED – A Monolithic Tale

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Ahhh, Callanish. The moment we stepped into the circle, it felt like I’d crossed a threshold into another world. Immediately, I was drawn to this particular stone. Mostly since it was not much taller than I, but partly because she … Continue reading →