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Home Tag Archives: Washington D.C.

Tag Archives: Washington D.C.

The T-Boy Society of Film & Music’s Favorite Domestic Destinations

By T-Boy Society of Film & Music
in :  T-Boy Society of Film & Music
La Push. Olympic Coast, Washington

The T-Boy Society of Film & Music’s first poll for 2021 is dedicated to favorite domestic destinations: Cities, Towns and Sites. We felt this would be an appropriate theme as traveling to domestic destinations is slowly opening up.

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Planet Word: Where the World of Words Rule the Universe

By Fyllis Hockman
in :  Travel USA
magic word wall

I’m a travel writer. Words are what I do. My stories may not always sing but I usually can put one word in front of another succinctly enough to craft a quasi-well-written article. But when I heard about the newly opened Planet Word in Washington, D.C., I was so excited, I had no words.

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Ode to Carnival Past and Future, Sadly Not Present.

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
dancers preparing for a carnival parade, on Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Are you mourning this year’s lack of Carnival’s spiritual cleanse, its satirical sorting of society’s woes to give us perspective? I am. And so I retreat now to past frolics. It’s hard to overstate how rotten the past year has been, in so many ways, or the dim prospects it left us, as we await whatever next escapes Pandora’s Box.

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Urgent Culture for a Foot-Dragging Congress

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
Don’t Cross the Bridge Before You Get to the River, 2008; photo by Francis Alÿs

Two Washington exhibits, terrifyingly timely for the stark options before us, demand attention from the recently returned 116th Congress. The Warmth of Other Suns, an exploration of the plight of migrants and refugees, at the Phillips Collection, departs Sept. 22nd. The David H. Koch Fossil Hall — Deep Time, at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum is, like its fossils, here for the long haul

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Sunscreen Bans, Women Travel, Polanski’s J’Accuse

By Ed Boitano
in :  Eclectic Stuff
lady traveler at Dubrovnik

Beth Whitman is the founder of WanderTours and your (mostly) fearless leader... Not everyone is happy about Roman Polanski having a new film in competition in Venice — especially since the festival only has two women directors competing this year... Think the plastic straws you gave up sipping from are bad for our oceans? It’s time to consider the same about the sunscreen you use.

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Swedish Lapland’s Arctic Bath

By Ed Boitano
in :  Eclectic Stuff
artist's impression of the Arctic Bath floating hotel and spa

Cruise ship life can be a little mysterious. Your choices aren't always spelled out in black and white. The more you cruise, the more you pick up on the unofficial secrets the cruise lines don't tell you... The first real action to prevent hotels from posting false low-ball prices on initial rate searches, also known as hidden “resort fees,” is finally underway.

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Destination Washington, DC: The National Cherry Blossom Festival

By Tom Weber
in :  Travel USA
cherry blossoms and the Washington Monument

The Palladian Traveler joins the masses around the Tidal Basin as Washington, DC rolls out the pink carpet during the National Cherry Blossom Festival.

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Sipping Loudoun County Red

By Richard Carroll
in :  Travel USA
Stone Tower vineyards

Dedicated Loudoun County winemakers, working with the rhythms of time and the vagaries of Mother Nature, have created an overwhelming revelation for visitors to Washington D.C. For those in the pursuit of pleasure, Loudoun County, a short 25-miles to the east of D. C. is a leisurely laid-back alternative from the chaotic rush and jumble of the big city where vineyards and horses combine to create a lifestyle to envy.

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