Tag: America
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A Spontaneous Visit to Mesa Verde
On our 11-day epic Southwestern vacation, we left a little wiggle room at the end of the trip to be spontaneous. We wound up first in Durango, Colorado, an adorable mountain town 20 minutes from the New Mexico border. Mesa Verde (Spanish for “Green Table”) National Park was a daytrip destination about a half hour […]
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A Stroll Through Downtown Portland, Maine
After several months of having lived in the extremely suburban Jersey Shore region, a visit to this hip urban New England city felt like a breath of fresh air for my soul. I loved the silhouette created by this couple against the backdrop of an urban scene in the bright afternoon sun. Passing a children’s boutique, I was […]
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Boston Gallery, Version 2.0
In the early spring of 2014, I posted the original Boston Gallery. A year-and-a-half passed, and although I often intended to make another trip to Beantown, I could never seem to find the time. A few weeks ago, I finally carved time out of no time and trekked north, where I found the city as as picturesque as ever. I only wish I could have […]
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My Kind Of Town . . . To Visit
That Toddling Town It was half a lifetime ago when I made my first visit to Chicago. I was 18 years old, a college freshman on a road trip to DC with a group of friends. We crashed for a night on the outskirts of America’s third largest city, and I marveled at the unfamiliar, […]