40 Countries in one day! Well, kind of… When a friend of mine told me about a special weekend in DC where a ton of foreign embassies open their doors to the public, I immediately sprang into action to investigate! Turns out, the annual Passport DC was just weeks away. I booked my ticket and…
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I will never forget the morning I had the best breakfast of my life. I knew on the very first bite. It was like French toast mixed with crack and I was the fiend. Between bites I was probably annoying everyone at my table with my explanations of surprise and awe with how amazing this…
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Why I Refuse to Ever Use Travelocity Again…and Why You Should Too I was probably one of Travelocity’s most loyal customers. I’ve been with them since the 90s; since the concept of online travel was new. I’ve booked hundreds, yes hundreds of trips on Travelocity–from flights to hotels to rental cars. Faithfully. Travelocity even sent…
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People often ask me the standard questions about world travel, like “What’s your favorite place you’ve ever visited?” I’ve answered that one a million times. But I really love when someone asks me a really good question…a different question…and I get to tell a story that I haven’t shared much. This week I got one…
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I had a three-night vacation planned at Atlantis-Bahamas; I was looking forward to relaxing and actually “staying put” in one country for more than two days. But I just couldn’t do it; by the second day in Nassau I was furiously trying to work out flights to and from Jamaica during my tight vacation window….
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I ended up in Kingston for a night after I decided to abort a three-day weekend vacation in Nassau. I couldn’t sit still, and knowing that Jamaica and St. Vincent were the only two countries left in the Americas that I needed to see before I turn 40 (and my 40th birthday is only nine…
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The Bahamas One of my travel goals was to knock off all of the Americas before my 40th birthday. This may seem manageable until you take into account how many Caribbean countries exist. There are scores of tiny island countries, but thanks to a nine-island jaunt in September I was almost done. I had just…
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Saturday, February 6th 2016 was one of the most memorable experiences of my life, as I saw Saturday Night “Live,” literally…live! The whole thing was amazingly surreal and such a once in a lifetime event that I wanted to document it all; a textual time capsule that would stand the test of time, and that…
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