Fun Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, PA) 17 Dec 201817 Dec 2018 During the course of my research for the Ireland articles, I discovered that we'd missed the opportunity to visit Ireland's National Botanical Gardens. It was a bit of a revelation…
Fun… Still Standing After All These Years: Newgrange and Tara 27 Nov 2018 Those who have been following along already know that I was absolutely floored by society and structures that predate anything I've seen before. This is why I've saved the most…
Travel Irish Road Trip 19 Nov 201819 Nov 2018 Through this series, I've mentioned how Ireland feels older than anywhere I've been in the U.S. It'd be tragic to have gone all that way and not seen some proper…
Fun… Guide to the Not Free Museums of Dublin 8 Nov 20188 Nov 2018 My grandparents were the driving force behind this vacation, so we did things a bit differently than I would have had I been alone. Perhaps the biggest difference was the…
Food… The Guinness Storehouse Tour 28 Oct 201828 Oct 2018 I'm sure that you've heard that Guinness tastes better on its home island (The Emerald Isle, of course) than it does here in the States. I was curious as to…
Travel National Museums of Ireland 12 Oct 201812 Oct 2018 Growing up in the United States, it is easy to lose perspective on what the word "old" actually means. There are ruins about, sure, but I visited an Irish monastic…
Guides… A Day in Charleston 2 Oct 2018 An easy two-hour drive south of Myrtle Beach is a town with a rich, storied history. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union, and the ensuing…
Fun The Sunset Drive-In Theatre (Colchester, VT) 23 Jul 2018 The Sunset Drive-in Movie Theater provides a service that, growing up in northern Delaware, I didn't know still existed. Sure, everyone knows that drive-in theaters used to exist; it's where…
Fun… A Journey Upstream 26 Feb 2018 There’s nothing like a good road trip, especially one through country I’ve never seen before. I take similar joy in boat rides, and I did two of those on two…
Carnival in the Bahamas… Carnival in the Bahamas: A Striking History 7 Dec 20177 Dec 2017 Carnival Pride is taller than Nassau, the capital city of the Bahamas. This trip was my first time really spending time on islands, rather than the mainland, and I’m not…
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