Wow! Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center jam packed with air and space marvels
How many times can you say WOW! in one afternoon? After a couple hours at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles Airport in Chantilly, Va., I was sounding like a […]
Category Archives: Travel with Children
Light City illuminates Baltimore
Baltimore has never looked more beautiful. And I don’t only mean the light displays strung like a necklace around the Inner Harbor. Light City brings people of all ages and […]
Fr. Damien and more on Molokai
Images from my childhood continue to affect how I think about things even a half century later. That is certainly true about Molokai. I remember learning about Father Damian (now […]
Sunrise at Haleakala
When the alarm went off at 1 a.m., and when we raced to get ready for our 2 a.m. bus, then as as we stood in the freezing cold darkness […]
A palace filled with plants and flowers
I was standing under massive palm trees, looking at how the stained glass windows splattered color all over their deep green leaves. And then it started to rain. I saw […]
Hop on, hop off: A San Francisco treat. Maybe
I can’t decide whether to endorse the hop-on, hop-off buses in San Francisco. I only used one company. And there are two or three others that line up at Union […]
POSTCARD from Deep Creek Lake
A visit to DeepCreek Lake in western Maryland absolutely must include a stop at Swallow Falls State Park. And this year was no different. But this year unlike many recent […]
McKee Botanical Garden: Where the Wild Things Are
It was too cold for the beach. Not enough sun for basking. But we were in Vero Beach, Florida. We had to play outside. We found the perfect spot at […]
On a mission in San Antonio
Every time I have visited San Antonio, I’ve remembered the Alamo. But until my last visit a few weeks ago, I had never seen the other missions which are part […]
The many scenes of Christmas
A story about a baby being born in a little town in the Middle East has sparked the imagination of artists too numerous to count. One of the ways they […]
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