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Europe, Travel

Favorite Moments – Rialto Bridge

I’ve written about travel moments in the past.  Very rarely did they have to do with the actual place that I was in, but more with a culmination circumstances.  The Duff Brothers could have been performing in any city.  It was the bar, the people, and the music that captured the travel moment.  The same with the pop band in Chiang Mai.  That band could have been playing in any international city. …

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Europe, Travel

The Truth About Venice

My wife and I sat in our room at the Westin Europa and Regina trying to plot out dinner plans over a bottle of Prosecco.  She manned the TripAdvisor app on our tablet, and I managed a few blogs on my phone and a myriad of tour books.  We wanted to find the perfect restaurant for that authentic Venetian meal.  The kind of place where we were the only tourists in a…

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Charlotte, Travel

This is Charlotte – Charlotte Roller Derby Girls, What?

Yes, Charlotte has a roller derby team, and yes, it was everything I expected it to be.  It was part sport and part art.  It was hockey meets NASCAR meets wrestling all wrapped up in one giant explosion of angry estrogen.  There was elbowing, there was blocking, there were girls falling all over each other in an effort to score or prevent being scored on.  And the names, oh the names.  Some…

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Charlotte, Travel

This is Charlotte – Shakespeare at the Green Uptown

While travel is a passion of mine, I wholeheartedly believe in exploring the city you live in – the sites, the sounds, the tastes, the arts, the culture, the scenes.  Basically, be a tourist in your own town.  For me, that town is Charlotte, North Carolina.  Like many residents of the Queen City, I am a transplant that calls this magnificent city home and don’t have any plans to leave it in…

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Latin America, Travel

Colombia – Final Thoughts

I feel like I copped out on Colombia, that I didn’t allow it it’s full potential.  All I saw was Cartagena and some outlying islands that were overrun with tourists.  There was no countryside, no village visits, I didn’t even make it to one of the other major cities like Bogota, Cali, or Medellin.  Why?  This is a brutally honest answer here – it was out of fear.  I went with rebellious…

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