Whetstone’s Chocolate Tour
It may seem crazy to come back from Belgium and tour a chocolate company in Florida, but that’s exactly what I did. You’d think I’d be setting myself up for […]
Category Archives: Museums & Tours
They Might Be Giants
There are two things I immediately associate with the Netherlands: tulips and windmills. Since I was traveling there in summer, I knew I wouldn’t see tulips, but I did want […]
The Hiding Place in Haarlem
If you like reading books about the Holocaust, Corrie ten Boom’s tale of her family’s role in the Dutch Resistance should definitely be added to your reading list. The Hiding […]
I Crawled Up Inside CasAnus
What Is CasAnus? As if my time wandering around the Verbeke Foundation wasn’t strange enough, when the day ended and the museum closed, I was left to spend the night […]
It Was Surreal – Wandering Through the Verbeke Foundation
sur·re·al·ism a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images The Verbeke […]
mim – Music in Brussels
Travelers are advised to ask locals for insight on what restaurants to go to and what to see or do in a particular city. I’ve done this often, usually with […]
Encounters UFO Experience
I’ve been to a lot of places, but I haven’t yet been to outer space. And beings from outer space haven’t come to see me, though that’s not true of […]
Behind-the-Scene Butler’s Tour at the Biltmore
This is the part of the Biltmore Estate that most people don’t get to see: the service entrance in the back. We started here on our Butler’s Tour of the […]
Pure Opulence – The Biltmore Estate
With 178,000 sq. ft. of living space, 250 rooms, and 8,000 acres of property, you’d hardly consider the Biltmore Estate to be a “little mountain escape,” but that’s exactly what […]
Blow It Out Your Wazoo!
On the way to the Kazoobie Kazoo Factory in Beaufort, South Carolina, my mother said, “I don’t think it’s a good idea to give Michael a kazoo.” Michael is my […]
Browsing The Atlas 