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Martha’s Vineyard is a picturesque island located 7 miles off the Massachusetts coast. It is easily reachable by plane or ferry. We love the character of the towns, the island’s laid-back atmosphere, and the opportunity to bike scenic, lightly travelled, rural roads, and bike paths. And if biking is not your thing, the island …
As you may remember from our 2012 Blog, A Morning in Oak Park with Frank Lloyd Wright, we are huge Frank Lloyd Wright (FLW) fans. So, when we read that not only had Wright’s legendary SC Johnson Administration Building in Racine, Wisconsin been opened for seasonal tours, but also that the newly renovated Wright-designed Research […]
We, as discussed in previous Chicago blog posts, love Chicago architecture and the incredibly informative tours that the Chicago Architectural Foundation provides to explain and provide broader sociological context around this architecture. Although we have, so far, taken fewer than 20 of the more than 90 different tours offered by CFA, we notch up one […]
We have done guided tours of Congress, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress and the Pentagon. this trip, we were looking forward to a few others–Georgetown, the State Department’s Diplomatic reception rooms, and especially the White House. We had, for the first time, submitted an application for a White House tour in plenty of […]
New York City Walks We always rack up many walking miles in New York. Joyce tracks the miles on her pedometer and mandates at least 10,000 steps a day (5 miles), but we often achieve 20,000 steps or 7-10 miles each day. Most of our walks are in the areas we know quite well: the […]
Every time we leave Miami, we think we have seen and done pretty much all of most of the interesting things the city and surrounding area (from Palm Beach through the Keys) has to offer. But each time we visit, we discover we were wrong. In addition to the many do-agains, we continually discover new […]