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Do celu tam się wysiada. Lec Stanisław Jerzy (pierw. de Tusch-Letz, 1909-1966)
A bogowie grają w kości i nie pytają wcale czy chcesz przyłączyć się do gry (. . . ) Bogowie kpią sobie z twojego poukładanego życia (. . . ) nie przejmują się zbytnio ani naszymi planami na przyszłość ani oczekiwaniami. Gdzieś we wszechświecie rzucają kości i przypadkiem wypada twoja kolej. I odtąd zwyciężyć lub przegrać - to tylko kwestia szczęścia. Borys Pasternak
Idąc po kurzych jajach nie podskakuj. Przysłowie szkockie
I Herkules nie poradzi przeciwko wielu.
Dialog półinteligentów równa się monologowi ćwierćinteligenta. Stanisław Jerzy Lec (pierw. de Tusch - Letz, 1909-1966)

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.21).A simple, but successful, formula for travel articles begins with a dramatic or, at the least, interestarousing lead.You have to sell the story to the reader.There are plenty of travel articles out there.The story must convince the reader this one is worth his or her time.Some writers do this with an anecdotal lead, some use a dramatic moment, some use heavily descriptive openings to create impressive images in the reader's mind, and others try a summary approach that simply creates an atmosphere or mood of the place.After deciding what works best for your story for the lead, set the rest of the story up by providing some sort of thesis or nut graf for the readers.Tell them why they should read on.What is the point of the story? Why should they care about the dogwoods blooming in East Tennessee in April? Or the side trip you took in Hawaii to that remote waterfall? This portion of the story needs to tell the readers why they should read the article and what is going to follow.Let them know what you are going to do with their time, even if it is only 5 minutes for a shorter piece, and especially so if it is 15 minutes for a much longer magazinelength article.The remainder of the article must carry out the promises made.Put people and places into this story.Travel writing is about people and places.Share that.Let readers travel with you.Baker (1989) recommended strongly that travel writing show, not tell, to be effective."The ability to share travel experiences with others relies on your skill in painting strong and sensual pictures with words," he says (p.24).One way to accomplish this, he says, is to rely heavily on similes and metaphors in your writing.Another means to be effective is to use dialogue and recreate conversations of those at the scene.The followPage 302ing example, written by Jack Severson for On Travel column for The Philadelphia Inquirer, shows the natural beauty of Maui, but does not tell readers that the place is beautiful.The use of first person adds a personal dimension to the writing that is common in much travel writing today.Notice the descriptions Severson uses do the job:HANA, Hawaii—Most people who come to this small town, the easternmost village on the island of Maui, think that getting here isn't half the fun—it's all the fun.They make the 21/2to3hour drive along 52 serpentine miles of narrow, twolane blacktop from the center of the island simply for the drive itself.And I admit it, the drive is spectacular.The Hana Highway (as Route 36 is known) crosses 54 mostly onelane bridges as it twists and turns along the island's northeast shore, taking drivers deep into damp, dense, jungleshrouded canyons at one turn and out to a ridge edge with unparalleled seashore panoramas the next.It is arguably the most scenic strip of road in the islands (although I can already hear the arguments from aficionados of Waimea Canyon Drive on Kauai, who do have more than a little justification).And that's the main reason (along with the curves, which someone unofficially counted at 617) that the drive takes nearly three hours—there's a photoop around every turn.When most drivers finally get to Hana, they might stop for a bite at the Hana Ranch Center, the commercial core of this town of about 1,300, visit the tiny Hana Cultural Center museum, take a spin through Helani Botanical Gardens, and then get back on the Hana Highway and head back to their hotels in Kaanapali or Kapalua.The road ends not many miles south of Hana, so the way you get here is also the only way you get back.Some visitors continue south to Oheo Gulch, with its lovely series of waterfalls and swimmable pools, or farther still to visit the grave site of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh at Kipahulu.But rarely do Hana Highway travelers take advantage of one of Hana's best assets—Hana Beach Park.Just a few blocks off Route 36 in the heart of town, this public beach offers drivers, armweary from all those twists and turns, a chance to relax and refresh before getting back behind the wheel for the long drive back.Page 303When my wife and I set out on the Hana Highway at about this time last year, we had no intention of stopping at the beach park.In fact, I'm not sure we even knew it existed.In any case, after three hours of driving, stopping to gawk and gape at all the natural beauty and snapping a few thousand artfully composed pictures, the park came as a delightful surprise.There were only a handful of cars in the parking lot when we arrived and only a couple of people on the blacksand beach; no one was in the water.The few locals who were there were queued up at Tutu's, the fastfood operation in the park's main building.It was lunchtime and Tutu's was turning out burgers and dogs, along with that ubiquitous Hawaiian staple called plate lunch (usually fish or meat accompanied by two icecream scoops of gooey rice), shave ice (as they call the Hawaiian version of South Philly's water ice), ice cream and cold drinks.In a large, highceilinged room connected to the refreshment facility, an aerobic exercise class was in full kick.Elsewhere, there were showers and restrooms providing pre and apresswim amenities.A long grassy strip across from Tutu's was sprinkled with concrete picnic benches and, beyond, a threefoot retaining wall dropped down to the black sand of the beach.The beach is on Hana Bay, a lovely horseshoeshaped body of water that, on the day we visited, was as placid as a bathtub, the water nearly as warm.We had donned bathing suits under our clothes before leaving our hotel—a good practice whenever driving around the islands; there are just too many beautiful beaches to be sampled in Hawaii—so were prepared to sample Hana Bay.First, though, we bought cold drinks, sat on the retaining wall, and let our senses collect themselves after the overload of the Hana Highway.The gentle lapping of the water on the sand, the uninterrupted view out to sea, were the perfect antidote to the visual feast and nervejangling experience of the twisting Hana Highway.Looming over the tranquil bay is Kauiki Head, a 400foot cinder hill that legend holds was the home of the Hawaiian demigod Maui.It is also notable in more recent history, as the birthplace,Page 304in 1768, of Queen Kaahumanu, the favorite wife of King Kamehameha I, who united the Hawaiian Islands in 1810.When we finally peeled off our street clothes and strolled into Hana Bay, the water proved to be every bit as welcoming as it looked—just cool enough to be refreshing, warm enough to be wonderfully comfortable.We swam around for a while, seemingly having the whole of Hana Bay to ourselves.(Snorkeling is reportedly very good in the bay's calm waters but, regrettably we had no equipment with us.) Floating on my back, looking up at ironwood treecovered Kauiki Head to the left and the redroofed houses of Hana as they marched up the hill to the highway on my right, I pitied the thousands of Hana Highway travelers who had made the drive but had failed to detour to the beach park [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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