An Old-Fashioned Christmas
It’s wonderful to venture out and see all the light displays of the Christmas season. But at Heritage Village Museum in Cincinnati, they decorate a little differently: the historical houses […]
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
On the strike of the hour, the bells of this glockenspiel (a clock tower with animated figures) ring out and the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin unfolds. It […]
Gotta Get Some Goetta!
If you don’t know what goetta is, you probably haven’t been to Cincinnati. Even a lot of Cincinnatians don’t know exactly. They’ve likely heard of it though, even if they […]
Viking Ships in Oslo & Cincinnati
It was my great pleasure to visit the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. I’d arranged to meet with Margrethe, a graduate student who works at the museum and gave my […]
Escape the Room Challenge
Judging by the recent cities I’ve visited, Escape Room challenges are a worldwide trend right now. We’ve had a new one pop up in my area of town (West Chester, […]
The Tastiest Passport Stamps
I haven’t eaten a donut in years. YEARS! I stood at the bakery counter drooling over the array of confections, when I saw it: a maple pecan long john. I […]
Cincinnati Mural Tours
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I’m hometown proud. I know that most people wouldn’t think to visit Cincinnati, but I am constantly surprised at all the […]
American Lights
I was just in Singapore with a group of 22-year-old Chinese and Singaporeans. As we walked along Singapore’s famed Orchard Road admiring the lights, one of the Chinese girls asked […]
The Lady in Green
The Hilton Netherland Hotel was constructed in 1930 as one of the most luxurious hotels of its time. The architects later used the same design for the Empire State Building […]
Roadfood & The Floridian
As soon as I received my copy of Roadfood by Jane and Michael Stern, I knew I had a dilemma: should I keep the book in my car, or in […]
Browsing The Atlas 