Category Archives: Travel

Once a year Taste of DC shuts down Pennsylvania Avenue between 9th street and 15th street to showcase the district’s culinary offerings. While it was cloudy, cold, and wet, which might have hampered attendance, the weather could not curtail the potent aromas of a menu that otherwise would only exist in your dreams – including […]

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This year’s Washington Post Travel Photo Contest received more than 1,700 submissions – an all time record after 14 years running. My photograph of a sunrise in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware received one (1) of nine (9) honorable mentions among 13 photographs awarded. It’s an honor to be recognized by the Post – especially out of […]

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The Washington Monument closed shortly after an earthquake struck Virginia, and rattled through the Northeast, in 2011. While the earthquake was relatively minor, it compromised the structural integrity of a monument that has stood (parts of it anyway) since 1848. Cracks were found at the very top, and throughout the internal structure, resulting in a […]

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This wasn’t my first time in Mexico, but I’ve never been to Cancun. I had always imagined Cancun to be littered with Mardi Gras-esque beads and half full cervezas, overrun with drunken college students, and echoing with electronic dance music.  To my surprise, what I found couldn’t have been farther from that. I realize that […]

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There’s nothing like a sunrise over the ocean. And I saw this particular sunrise at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware in two different ways. The first was serene and peaceful, with painted water as far as the eye could see.The other was a more active, even violent repetition of crashing waves, saturated with the warmth of summer […]

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