While I enjoyed my first day in Atlanta, visiting the World of Coca-Cola and the Georgia Aquarium and touring CNN, I didn’t feel like I had really gotten a feel for the city itself. All three sites surrounded the Centennial Olympic Park downtown and in a sense, they could have been found in any city. […]
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I originally didn’t really think about visiting the World of Coca-Cola during my weekend in Atlanta. It just didn’t jump out at me as a place of interest. But then everyone started telling me I needed to go – that it would be the highlight of visiting Atlanta. So I started to reconsider and I
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It didn’t take me long to spot it. The large red letters loomed large over Centennial Olympic Park and left no doubt which way I needed to head to find my first stop in Atlanta: CNN Tower. My mission? To catch a glimpse of Anderson Cooper, what else? With my Atlanta CityPASS in hand (thanks
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It seemed like a good idea last October. After a year back in Chicago, I realized I just couldn’t handle the heat and humidity like I used to – especially when it came to running in such toasty weather. So as much as I wanted to run another marathon now that I am back in
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The fact that I refer to Chicago as the Windy City in the title of this post should give away the fact that I am not originally from here. As I learned in some article on some other website last week, “real” Chicagoans don’t call it the Windy City. I guess 12+ years here hasn’t
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Spending a weekend in Boston in the middle of February may not appeal to everyone. Indeed, as I put out a call for suggestions of things to do on Twitter, I got at least one response warning me that February was not the time to be visiting. Nonetheless, I was excited as I arrived in
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As I planned my recent trip to Boston, touring Fenway Park was minimally on my radar. But when a walk through Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood led me straight to the ballpark, I thought it was too good of an opportunity to miss. A longtime baseball fan, I grew up watching the Minnesota Twins play baseball
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I have been to my fair share of museums. Art museums, history museums, science museums and even sex museums. So it probably isn’t surprising that over the years, many of them have started to blur together. It has become harder and harder for me to find a museum that really stands out and impresses me
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Among the high-rises that tower over Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, there are a few regal greystone buildings that date back to the early twentieth century, if not earlier. If you weren’t looking for it, you would probably never realize that, among those greystones sits one of the only museums in the country dedicated to
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Nothing excites me as much as having travel plans! So I am excited to announce my plans for this spring. With limited vacation time, I am squeezing in trips to Boston, Atlanta, Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon – all before June 1! While I would love to be heading overseas again too, I am excited
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