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Backpacking Nagano Prefecture in Japan

A flower of snow On your shoulder seems to say: Welcome to Nagano! Keiko Yoshida – Nagano City My middle daughter, Avi, is a student at Temple University’s Tokyo campus....

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Backpacking with Autistic Children

Backpacking is a really exciting experience for a lot of kids.  For children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), it can be fraught with anxiety, as it involves multiple changes in...

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The Kosher Backpacker, The Wandering Jew

This is a modified version of the foreword that appears in my book, The Kosher Backpacker, as an introduction to this site. – Brian Kresge, aka “Strings Attached” I saw...

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