A Patriots Day tour through the life of the amazing Abigail Adams
Patriots Day is an annual holiday here in my home state of Massachusetts (and also in Maine, once part of Massachusetts). It celebrates the start of the American Revolution with…
Eindhoven is electric! A way cool and way underrated Dutch city
Eindhoven offers the best of old and new Europe. Photo courtesy Visit Holland. Some of the best stops in the traveling life are those you don't expect to make. Consider…
Bad-ass Parisian sparrow totally attacked my table, ate my bread
Les Deux Magots in the Saint Germain neighborhood of Paris is today widely considered something of a tourist trap. But it's still a beautiful and pretty neat classic Parisian cafe in…
Site of epic Band of Brothers Crossroads attack in Holland today
My buddy Dan Sullivan and I went on a major tour of World War II battle sites across Northwestern Europe in April 2018. We made stops in Belgium, Netherlands, France…
Legendary awesome & dirt cheap dim sum in the heart of Manhattan
Tim Ho Wan's steamed vegetable dumplings. Who says you can't eat well, and inexpensively, in the heart of Manhattan? Consider a visit to Tim Ho Wan in Hell's Kitchen (610 9th Ave.),…
Awesome Tottenham soccer bar & real ale pub was once a public loo
The High Cross is a really cool relatively new little pub in North London that's a pre-game watering hole for fans of 2019 UEFA Champions League finalist Tottenham Hotspur. It also boasts…
Savor Norman flavor at these 5 D-Day invasion beach distilleries
American tourists flock to Normandy for its amazing history, most notably as the site of the World War II allied invasion of Europe on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The Longest Day.…
Tottenham’s new NFL-ready arena boasts Europe’s longest beer bar
Famed North London football club Tottenham Hotspur opened a spectacular new home arena this month right next door to and over the footprint of its traditional home of White Hart Lane. Tottenham Hotspur…
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir totally crushes “The Sound of Music”
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a bad-ass outfit. If you've ever watched them perform "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" or "Amazing Grace" or marveled as they reduced President Ronald Reagan…
Dreams come true at the Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Thrift Store
The Pepperidge Farm Thrift Store is a Magic Kingdom of delicious baked cheese snacks sold in a time warp where they never learned that "LB" is the abbreviation for pound.…
Fry sauce changed my life and it will change your life, too
So there's a really cool regional American condiment called fry sauce. It originated in Utah in the 1940s and it's served there and in surrounding states today with French fries. Fry sauce…
John Glenn’s birthplace (+killer hot wings!) on The National Road
John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth on this date 57 years ago: Feb. 20, 1962. I visited Glenn's birthplace on a whim this past fall while…