When every time you visit a city and you find yourself visiting the same museum, you know you’ve found a favorite. The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi, Vietnam is my go-to place for an ethnic cultural fix of Vietnam’s tribal diversity and history. It’s also a favorite of locals. When I visited Hanoi this past summer […]
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Cebu City, on the island of Cebu in the Philippines was not on my bucket list until my dad started traveling there and mentioned how much he thought I’d like it. So I went. And I did. Cebu City is the oldest city in the Philippines and the first Spanish settlement which means there are several
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This is the 30th year anniversary of the movie “A Christmas Story,” the now classic film where Cleveland served as a backdrop during the time when a leg lamp was “a major award,” and a Red Ryder BB gun was a boy’s Christmas wish. In Cleveland, you can step back into 1940s nostalgia and get the
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Which high schooler reading James Thurber’s short story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” didn’t dream of having a secret life? I know I did. Happily, what I envisioned when I doodled in the margins of math papers has come to pass. I am a traveler. In my travels, I’ve had the pleasure of learning more
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In the former industrial city of 354,000 residents, Bilbao has transformed itself from the once ugly ogre to the dashing young prince of the Vizcaya Province. Once surrounded by cranes, container ships and sludge, the rejuvinated city straddled by the Nervion River, now offers public parks and gardens, fashionable shops and the magnificant titanium coated
