Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: -Washington, DC
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"Learn to take great pictures while touring DC's favorite locations." What a cool concept for solo travelers from out of town. Lynford Morton of PhotoTour Excursions offers two, two, two events in one. (okay, only the older among us will remember that chewing gum commercial. Or was it mints?) Photo lessons and a tour of…
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Want to get up close and personal with some big-name stars this weekend? Such as Lionel Richie, Blythe Danner, Gary Sinise and the U.S. Air Force Singing Sergeants? (Okay, maybe the sergeants don't have quite the star power as the others.) This weekend, on the lawn behind the U.S. Capitol, the National Symphony Orchestra is…
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While many people spent Easter Sunday at church, 14 of us spent it in nature's cathedral, hiking seven miles in Sky Meadows State Park, on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. While the cherry blossoms are now past peak, the trees in Delaplane, Virginia, are just beginning to bud. Many people may not…
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The paths are lined with cherry trees. Whitish-pink petals rain down from the canopy of trees above like a Technicolor summer storm. Spring at the tidal basin in Washington, D.C.? No, spring a little farther north, in the Kenwood area of Maryland. Not quite a dirty little secret, but certainly not known by a lot…
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What the heck would you have done if you had been a solo traveler to Washington, D.C., this weekend in the middle of a snow storm that's been called both "Snowmageddon" and "Snowpocalypse?"As well as one, big, "Historic Mess?" And suppose you'd been here on Saturday when all the museums were closed? As well as…
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Last year around this time I wrote about holiday markets around the world. The post was prompted by a visit to Washington, D.C.'s holiday market. The other day, I went back to the D.C. market. I have to admit, the second time was not as exciting. That's the thing about travel for me. I always…
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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…
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Seeing the flashes going off at the bottom of a Metro escalator the other day reminded me of two things: what a big tourist attraction my home town is and how hard it is to capture an escalator on "film." (At least for us amateurs.) The reason people try to capture our escalators for posterity…
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