The heart of any place is the people who inhabit it.
For years, the Cambodian people where victims of Richard Nixon’s secret bombing campaign, only later to be subjected to Pol Pot’s brutal genocide while much of the word looked the other way.
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South Beach (a.k.a. SoBe) in Miami Beach, Florida, wasn’t always a playground for the rich and famous. One hundred years ago the area’s original developers envisioned a mid-sized ocean front city of modest single family homes.
Today, not so much.
In January, Dani and I were approached by Bethesda Magazine to share the story of the our family’s trip around the world. Together, we edited our blog posts into what we hope is a reasonably interesting, readable article.
Thanks to Steve Hull, Lisa Shroder and Maire McArdle at Bethesda Magazine for transforming our pedestrian prose into a really great looking editorial package. If you live in suburban Maryland, you can pick up a copy at Whole Foods and elsewhere.
If you don’t live in the area and are interested, you can download a PDF copy of the article here.
As usual, California leads the nation. The good citizens of the Golden State have discovered a nefarious plot by the communist Chinese to infiltrate our schools and brainwash our children. It works like this.
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In the year since we returned from our RTW adventure, we purposely stayed close to home. But this past March, as the kids’ spring break approached, we looked for an opportunity to take a vacation as opposed to travel.
Our choice? The polar opposite of a ten-month round the world trip: A four-day Carnival Cruise.
Part Vegas, part Branson and all Mall of America, Carnival is build around the concept of “The Fun Ships,” relentlessly focused on giving Middle America a taste of the high life.
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Not that long ago, on February 27, 2010, a massive earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter Scale rocked the Chilean coast south of Santiago. Since then, public awareness has shifted to dozens of other problems, other tragedies.
With oil bearing down on the remarkable white sand beaches of the Florida Panhandle, we hopped a Southwest flight to the newly opened Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport in Panama City Beach.
According to Plato, Atlantis was a naval power lying “in front of the Pillars of Hercules.” The city-state conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9,000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC.
After a failed attempt to invade Athens, Atlantis sank into the ocean “in a single day and night of misfortune.”
