Reflections on a Year Well-Traveled

Usually when the South Florida Sun-Sentinel’s Thomas Swick looks back on his year of travels, it’s the people he met that stand out most clearly. “But this year they came up against some stiff competition,” he recalls in Sunday’s paper. “Sights (sights!) kept trying to upstage humans. They started early one morning in February when I looked out the window of my plane and saw the lush green folds of Tahiti below. I flew on to the Cook Islands, swam in Aitutaki’s lagoon, returned to Papeete, sailed on a ferry to Moorea, but nothing matched that first, kingfisher’s-eye view of the South Pacific.” Among other highlights, Swick mentions visits to India and Poland.

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