THE Harley-Davidson Museum
Can you believe there’s only one Harley-Davidson Museum in the world? A lifestyle brand that huge, and its history is contained inside this museum complex in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. If you’re […]
Category Archives: Museums & Tours
Lakefront Brewery – A Laugh a Minute
Walk into Lakefront Brewery and pay $10 for their tour. In exchange, you get a plastic cup, four tokens, a wristband, and a tour of the brewery. But what you’re […]
Southern Poverty Law
Our van pulled up outside the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Civil Rights Memorial and a guard immediately hurried down to the street. We couldn’t just stop there to unload. When […]
The Horror of Lynching – Expressed Through Art
There are atrocities so profound that we can’t make sense of them in any other way than art. Our minds refuse to absorb them, because they are atrocities perpetrated on […]
Dexter Avenue
Unless you’ve been to Montgomery, Alabama, you may not realize how integral Dexter Avenue has been in shaping our world. It’s amazing to stand at the fountain on that street […]
Ave Maria Grotto
I’m not a very religious person, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t enjoy visiting places with religious significance. Like St. Peter’s Basilica, Notre Dame Cathedral, Vatican City, the Polish […]
Space Camp is a Blast!
I never wanted to be an astronaut. Never had any interest in hurtling through space on a rocket with fire shooting out its tail. Never wanted to look back on […]
Off the Beaten Track: Crooked Creek Civil War Museum
My day started with a man named Fred Wise, who dropped one cannonball after another into my hand. They were heavy! I didn’t need more than two examples to learn […]
Shame Masks
In Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a medieval city in the Franconia region of Germany, it is easy to walk along the cobblestone paths that wind through the town and consider […]
Holmenkollen Ski Slope
I’ve never skiied. I’ve never even wanted to. The thought of balancing on two runners while I hurtle down a mountain terrifies me. And by “mountain,” I mean bunny […]
