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Road Tripping North of 60: Top of the World Highway to Chicken, Alaska
What do you do when the 7 permanent residents of a place called Ptarmigan can't agree on how to spell its name? You change the name of the town to "Chicken". And you build a 10-foot tall metal bird as your mascot. It sounds like a story you'd read in some children's...
Caught in the Spell of Old Town Alexandria, Virginia
Charming. It's a word that is often heard in travel circles when describing a destination. And yet, as Henk and I explored the treed streets of old town Alexandria in Northern Virginia, it was the only word that repeatedly kept coming to mind. Not just because the...
Meeting George Washington “In the Flesh” at Mount Vernon
I always think of George Washington as a bit of a grumpy old man. Just look at the face on every American dollar bill: stern expression, mouth set in a clenched line, sidelong gaze looking just past you. Not exactly the kind of man you'd imagine sharing a few laughs...
Experiencing the American Civil War ‘in the Field’ in Northern Virginia
It was a battle that everyone thought would be over before it began, yet it would mark the beginning of a 4-year-long bloody conflict that would rip a country apart before stitching it back together, and destroy once and for all any naively romantic notion of the...
