What is your favorite place you have ever visited? What’s the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen? What’s the most uncomfortable or dangerous situation you have found yourself in? Do you get diarrhea when you travel? These are just a few of the questions we often get asked about our frequent, though often time-crunched, travels. [...]

How awesome was this??? Two 300 pound steel statues of some of my favorite intergalactic characters? What kind of store was this? I looked up. Above the door in bold yellow letters standing against a green background: Surplus International… So while I can’t claim that army surplus stores usually catch my fancy (and certainly I [...]

This must be what it feels like on the top of Everest … Slowly and stiffly, I placed one frozen foot in front of the other, frosty gusts of wind zipping past my ears. I had never been so cold in my life. Other random thoughts began running through my mind: “I wonder what frostbite [...]

It’s like love… yes… difficult to define… easy to recognize. Yes, every city seems to have its own character… something that makes it truly special. While difficult to put your finger on, it is still distinguishable nevertheless. New York has that energy. Cairo has the feel of the present colliding with an illustrious past. And [...]

It was once a swampy piece of land along the Potomac selected by President George Washington as the future site of the United States capital. It is now the pulse of a nation, beating non-stop with political, historical, and cultural activity. It is Washington, D.C., my favorite city in the United States, and I’d like [...]

How would you like to see the Berlin Wall, a guard tower located next to Checkpoint Charlie, a thank-you letter written by Saddam Hussein, four decades of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs, an antenna damaged in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, and newspapers headlining the sinking of the Titanic in 1912? What if [...]

Last week, we posted Part One of our top ten recommendations of Washington, D.C.’s best monuments and memorials to help you better plan and prepare for your trip to America’s capital. The memorials are one of the highlights of any visit to Washington, D.C., but because there are so many, if you don’t plan your [...]