Airstream – (Hand)made in America
With Airstream, every day has a silver lining As soon as I approached the Airstream factory in Jackson Center, Ohio, all I saw was a field of silver glinting in […]
Category Archives: Museums & Tours
UNESCO Heritage Site: Mosteiro da Batalha
Batalha Monastery — the burial church of Portuguese royalty. It took over a century to build, with fifteen architects adding their influence along the way. Work began in 1386. The […]
Your Carriage Awaits…
The minute I stepped inside the National Coach Museum, I felt like I’d entered a fairytale. Cinderella’s pumpkin coach had nothing on these! These were the carriages of Kings and […]
1919 – The Year That Changed Baseball
Cincinnati Reds I think you all know by now that I love Cincinnati. I also love baseball. And Cincinnati loves its Reds. What I didn’t know was how pivotal events […]
Austin Detours
All trips to Austin should begin with a Detour. That is the PERFECT tagline for what Austin Detours is about! Their concept is simple: We’re different, because Austin is. A […]
Recognizing the Red Cross
It was 3:00am. My phone rang. I could barely make sense of the sound as it roused me from a deep sleep. I groggily answered. “Julie? There’s an apartment fire […]
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 […]
Leaving London for a Day: Windsor Castle, Stonehenge and Bath
One of the most popular day excursions from London that I found includes visits to three iconic spots, two of which are UNESCO World Heritage sites: Stonehenge, Windsor Castle, and […]
Jack the Ripper Was Here
If you come out of London’s Tower Hill Underground station any time in the early evening, you’re sure to see murder enthusiasts milling around waiting for one of several Jack […]
Touring a FIFA Fiefdom
Fiefdom – anything, as an organization or real estate, owned or controlled by one dominant person or group I’d say Real Madrid’s football stadium counts as a fiefdom. In fact, they’ll […]
Browsing The Atlas 