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Jimmy Buffett

TRAIL TUNES: Share the adventure

by Dave Pidgeon on February 11, 2010

TRAIL TUNES suggests a Dave Matthews Band tune for your lovable travel partner this Valentines Week.

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TRAIL TUNES: Follow the storylines

by Dave Pidgeon on February 4, 2010

TRAIL TUNES ponders about what’s left to discover in the world.

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Checking in to the Buffet Hotel

by Dave Pidgeon on December 8, 2009

Compass Points takes a look at the new Jimmy Buffett album, “Buffet Hotel,” and finds the Gulf Coast troubadour taking fans on a trip to Africa.

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Everglades profiled by Beautiful Places

by davepidgeon on October 22, 2009

I come from where the rivers meet the sea That’s part of why I’m so wild and fancy free -Jimmy Buffett “Floridays” Among my lifelist trips is a kayak journey through Everglades National Park, the swampy and massive sponge of biodiversity in southwest Florida. I remember as a child boarding a small motor boat, the [...]

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Trail Tunes: September free fall

by davepidgeon on September 16, 2009

The tourist traps are empty Vacancy abounds Almost like it used to be Before the circus came to town “When the Coast is Clear” by Jimmy Buffett I love beach towns in September along the Mid-Atlantic, when the hordes of summer tourists have departed, the ocean water feels warm like a bath and the boardwalk [...]

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Sanford returns but not from A.T.

by davepidgeon on June 24, 2009

The South Carolina press for several days now camped out at several lean-tos along the southern stretches of the Appalachian Trail, many scratching fresh bug bites but happily preparing dinner to be consumed inside their tents – Bears? We have bears in the south? – waiting for a glimpse of the rugged Gov. Mark Sanford [...]

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Gaining mountain legs

by davepidgeon on June 15, 2009

  It’s Buffett Week at Compass Points as we make our eighth concert in the last 10 years, this year in Camden, N.J. And I can’t think of a better way to start making my recovery. I’m starting to rebound from my apparent digestive system infection, and while the comeback will be slow, I definitely [...]

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Amora premiera vista

by davepidgeon on May 6, 2009

I was listening to Jimmy Buffett on my iPod today when a particular track sparked some inspiration. The song – “First Look” – waxes on about Buffett’s first foray into Rio de Janeiro, of which the Gulf Coast poet says about his initial sighting of the iconic South American port: I think I want to go flying [...]

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A journalist looks at a job cut

by davepidgeon on April 1, 2009

  The point to Jimmy Buffett’s “A Pirate Looks at 40″ is that sometimes you can be born too late to become the man you wish to be; in this case a man just turned 40 who realizes that the opportunity to be a buccaneer has long since past. I’ve suspected the song is also [...]

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