It’s Super Bowl weekend when the Indianapolis Colts face the New Orleans Saints in Miami. I don’t know much about football, so I was wondering, “What if the game were decided on which city was a better destination to visit?” Now that’s a topic I’m well versed in! And it’s not as Big Easy as you [...]
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Chicago, IL–Six inches or more of fluffy white powder is falling today in the city. It’s making a nice covering of all the dog tracks in my yard and helps keep those icy spots on the sidewalks from being too slippery. Along with fresh snow, these are a few of my favorite Chicago winter [...] Cave Junction, OR–Take a winding, winding, winding road up so many hairpin turns that no one counts them to Oregon Caves National Monument. Then get out and walk, walk, walk to the big tree. It’s more than a 3-mile loop with a 1100 ft. elevation gain, meaning there will be some huffing and puffing. You’ll see big [...] Wounded Knee, SD–One hundred and nineteen years ago today, 146 Lakota men, women, and children were massacred here by 365 U.S. troops of the 7th Cavalry. It’s hard to imagine a more shameful event in U.S. history. Yet on this killing field, only the howling wind and few relics commemorate the site. On top of the nearby [...] South Bend, IN–Circle down the spiralling ramp into the College Football Hall of Fame where football legends prevail. But hurry, because this top-notch museum in South Bend, is going to move within a year, though it won’t likely silence the critics who complained for more than ten years about the city’s subsidies of the museum and [...]
Blackhawks legend Stan Mikita and Cubs pitcher Ryan Dempster at opening of Rink at Wrigley. Photo by Laurie Borman Chicago, IL–Flakes fell, crowds gathered, Zambonis smoothed the ice at the hastily constructed Rink at Wrigley yesterday. December snow in Chicago? Now that’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout! Cubs pitcher Ryan Dempster–on hockey skates– threw [...] Kodiak, AK–I went to Kodiak Island this summer to look for bears. Yeah, the largest land carnivore bear (polar bears don’t count as land carnivores). Yep, saw them. But I’m gonna talk about bears next time. First, you need to know about Kodiak Island. It’s basically a small town, where everybody knows everybody else (like [...] Sanibel Island, Fl–It’s hard to feel sorry for rascally raccoons when they dig into your trash bins at home and fling garbage all over the street. But any injured animal –even raccoons–brought to Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife (CROW) gets equal, caring treatment. Your sympathy swells when you view the destruction we humans have wrought upon animal habitats at [...] Sanibel Island, FL–Today’s Thanksgiving, a time to pause and reflect on what we’re grateful for. On Sanibel Island, many people are grateful for the bounty of nature. They preserve and protect the wetlands, through Ding Darling National Wildlife Reserve, and also through many smaller organizations that assist wildlife, help educate kids about the marine environment, [...] Fort Myers, FL–Edison was a genius, no doubt about it. But he was more than that–he was a practical genius, and that makes for great business sense. At the Edison-Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers, FL you can see that practical genius at work in a multitude of ways. The estates just completed a multi-million [...] |
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