Photographic Journeys Vol. 6
By Scot Walker
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The author continues his photos and diaries entries, this time covering Venice; Marrakesh, Morocco; the straights of Gibraltar; Old Faithful; and Bariloche. There are also links to the author's other Smashword books, his complete resume and links to his award winning short stories
Scot Walker
Mr. Walker has won a Flannery O'Connor Award for A Slow Bus Ride to a Shallow Grave; a Thomas Wolfe Short Story Contest award for Earsounds;a New Century Writer Ray Bradbury Fellowship award for Watched; a Kernodle New Play award for Kenu Hear the Wild Birds Sing?; A McLaren Memorial Comedy Play Writing award for, Screeches from the Zoo; an L. Ron Hubbard award for The Ruler of the Elves, and he has twice won awards in the Writer's Digest Competitions, once in the Stage Play Category for Abide with Me, and again in short story competition for La Mer. He's a member of the Dramatists Guild and his plays have been performed throughout the USA and Europe. You can email him at scotwalker2004@yahoo.com or search the internet. Be sure to go to Smashwords—and look for his latest publication: Amazing Stories, which includes 80 of his award winning and published best.
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Photographic Journeys Vol. 6 - Scot Walker
Photographic Journeys, Volume 6
© 2020 by Scot Walker
A Smashwords Production
This book is dedicated to our friend, Marilyn Marshall, a fellow world traveler.
Special thanks to my graphic designer Linh Pham for creating the covers to these Photographic Journeys.
FOREWORD
Scot Walker, who is too poor to afford the second T
and drinks a lot of coffee to compensate, is celebrating his 66th year as a paid author. He began as a 10-year old when Santa gave him a small printing press and Scot composed, printed and sold twenty copies of his newspapers for a penny apiece. Subsequently he has seen over 300 of his poems, short stories, novels, non-fiction works, letters, plays, essays, and reviews published. Mr. Walker has won a Flannery O’Connor Award for A Slow Bus Ride to a Shallow Grave; a Thomas Wolfe Short Story Contest award for Earsounds; a New Century Writer Ray Bradbury Fellowship award for Watched; a Kernodle New Play award for Kenu Hear the Wild Birds Sing?; A McLaren Memorial Comedy Play Writing award for, Screeches from the Zoo; and he has twice won awards in the Writer's Digest Competitions, once in the Stage Play Category for Abide with Me, and again in short story competition for La Mer. He’s a member of the Dramatists Guild and his plays have been performed throughout the USA and Europe. You can email him at scotwalker2004@yahoo.com or search the internet. Be sure to go to Smashwords—he has collections of short stories, novels and non-fiction works there. Buy something for goodness sakes!
Table of Contents
Chapter Forty-five: Venice
Chapter Forty-six: Marrakesh and Gibraltar
Chapter Forty-seven: Old Faithful
Chapter Forty-eight: Bariloche
About the Author
Connect with Scot Walker
Selected Awards
Books
Literary Magazines
E-Zine Stories
Essays
Non-fiction
Plays (Paperback)
Plays (E-versions)
Produced Plays
Poetry
Other Smashword Books
Sample: Amazing Stories
Chapter Forty-five:
Venice
August 7, 1977. We spent the day in Venice first learning how natives travel cheaply in Venice: by riding the Vaporetto, the high speed ferry boats. Here is the one in front of us sailing along the Grand Canal:
Then we visited Saint Mark’s Square.
We learned that Venetian men always walked around these two pillars—since they marked the place of execution in ancient times.
We then continued on to St. Mark’s Cathedral.
As the group headed off to buy souvenirs, I climbed to the next level and stood next to these magnificent horses. They were the largest equestrians until the nineteenth century—only President Grant’s statue on a horse in Washington, DC, is bigger today! Ironically, when I got home and started my next year of teaching I picked up our eighth grade literature book and there was a picture of Venice with those same four horses on the cover.
I then climbed to the top of the dome and snapped these photos:
After a quick