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  • A Titanic museum in Branson, Missouri?

    There's a half a ship on the main drag in Branson, Missouri, with a Las Vegas-like marquee out front saying:                 TITANIC                  NOW              BOARDING             9 am – 9 pm A Titanic museum in the Midwest, hundreds…

  • Fiji fire walking during which “on the rocks” means hot, hot, hot

    For two weeks before Sawau tribesmen from the island of Beqa in Fiji perform a firewalking ceremony, they have no contact with women and don't eat coconut. If they mess with "the rules" their feet are liable to get badly burned during the ceremony. While in Fiji, I watched fire walking, not on Beqa, but…

  • Shakepeare’s Hamlet at Virginia theater festival

    Get thee to … no, no, no, not a nunnery. Get thee to the Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival 2010 in Amherst, Virginia, for a staging of Hamlet. Well, less a staging, than a "fielding." The show will be performed in front of an old dairy barn and you, the audience, will sit on a…

  • Any piano players out there with a yen for solo travel?

    Piano players! Come quick to New York City. As of today, 60 painted and decorated free public pianos are set up in 50 places throughout the Big Apple, from the Metropolitan Museum to the Coney Island boardwalk, according to a blog post with a great headline: "New York City plunks 50 free public pianos." Does…

  • The Nation’s Triathlon lets a solo traveler experience the city like a local

    I biked to the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., early this morning so I could see the swimmers in the Nation's Triathlon. Having just done a (shorter) triathlon, I was curious to see how racers would get into the water and where the course was.  What a crazy scene. 4,700 participants. Waves of swimmers starting…

  • Top 10 cities for live music, chosen by travel writers

    There were only two surprises on the list of the top 10 cities for music chosen by members of the Society of American Travel Writers. When I saw the email about the survey I ran through my head the cities I knew would be on there: Austin, New Orleans, Nashville, Memphis. Several others didn't come…

  • Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World at the Kennedy Center, a good bet for solo travelers

    The singer Nawal from the Comoros Islands played at the Kennedy Center last night. The hour-long performance was free. Nawal's music is described as "Indo-Arabian-Persian music meets Bantu polyphones, with syncopated rhythms and Sufi trance." Not your every day radio station fare, eh? Nawal was at the Kennedy Center as part of Arabesque, a festival…