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Baltimore/Washington Trip Recap
As with most multi-day trips we take, I’ll be writing up a “If You Go” guide from our just-completed trip to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. But for now, a quick review of the five-day visit: A Few of...
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The Newseum, From the Perspective of A Former Journalist
On our recent trip to Washington, D.C., we visited the Newseum, the shrine to all things journalism. Despite having been a journalist, I wasn’t particularly eager to go, in part because I had this...
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Where Time and Space Intersect
I stumbled upon Intersect.com last week and spent a lot of time exploring it over the weekend. It’s a social media site that curates its users’ posts by location and time, and you can filter posts by...
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Richmond: It’s A Scream
On our recent trip to Washington, D.C., we noticed a lot of “Visit Richmond” ads promoting tourism to that city, and not just as “the city next to King’s Dominion”. The tone of the ads just struck us...
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Did We Drive Into Another Country?
We’re spending a few days near Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina this week. Our main reason for coming here is the Highland Games, but we’re not attending until Saturday, so we’re spending the...
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Rise and Falls
We awoke on day 2 of our highland vacation in the western North Carolina mountains to find that a local black cat had made itself quite at home on the hood of our car. It was just chillin’ on the car...
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Burly Guys Hurling Heavy Objects
Combine a track meet, a state fair, and a music festival, and throw in a dash of Scottish flair, and you have … the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, where we spent spent day 3 of our North...
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Head in the Clouds
As I maneuvered the car around the hair-raising twists and turns of N.C. 194 between Valle Crucis and Banner Elk on the first afternoon of our North Carolina mountains vacation on Thursday, Courtney...
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Unexpected Place for A Light Show
While we were up North visiting family for Thanksgiving, we took time out to visit La Salette in Attleboro, MA, one night. This was a monastery that, as I was told, gets decked out in Christmas lights...
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Photo Trip to the Zoo
With classes done for the semester, I’ve been enjoying a restful respite from school, which will last a couple more weeks. I’ve taken advantage of the down time to catch up on a lot of neglected items...
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A Quick Spin in Vegas
The Bellagio fountain Courtney got to go to Las Vegas for work recently, and I was all too happy to tag along, especially since her company was putting her up at the Bellagio. To answer the question...
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First Two Days by the Bay
With my summer class wrapped up and the fall semester still three-plus weeks away, this was the perfect time for us to get away for a little while. We decided on San Francisco for our getaway. It’s...
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Alcatraz: Unexpected Photo Paradise
The bulk of our third day in San Francisco was slotted for one of the city’s top landmarks — Alcatraz. We had booked tickets a month in advance, and even then, all we could manage was an afternoon...
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Lions, Tigers, Cyclists, Oh My!
With all the walking we’ve been doing around San Francisco, this has been by far our healthiest vacation. However, traversing all the hills (especially the two big ones leading to our cottage) has...
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Need: Another Week and Six More Dinners in San Francisco
I guess it’s time to pack up and go home. We fly back to the East Coast on Tuesday after spending the past six days in San Francisco. We’ve had a blast, but as usual, we find ourselves wanting to...
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Done at Last: England Photo Books
It’s taken almost two years, but we finally finished the photo books for our trip to England. We took so many pictures that we needed to make two books, one for London and the other for the other...
View ArticleCute Baby Primates at the N.C. Zoo
We took little Annika to one of our favorite places — the North Carolina Zoo — a couple days ago. She’s still too little to actually appreciate it, but we decided to do it partly to get out for some...
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Courtney surprised me for our anniversary this past weekend with a special trip to the Duke Lemur Center, home to the largest lemur population outside of Madagascar. She kept me guessing about where we...
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Photogenic N.C. Zoo Animals
With temperatures climbing into the 70s just five days before Christmas, we decided to kick off our holiday break Saturday with a trip to an ol’ reliable destination — the North Carolina Zoo. As an...
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Train Travel: If You Build It (Better), I’ll Come
Creative Commons Photo by Erich Fabricius So the Washington Post recently did this thing where three travel writers set out from Washington D.C. for Raleigh via car, train, and plane to see 1) who...
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