Mar 15th, 2009 at 12:30PM: In the year of Lincoln's 200th birthday, there's plenty to keep a person busy taking in sites around the United States that are connected to the 16th president in some way. For example, there's the Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. that has recently reopened and Lincoln's boyhood home in Indiana, two sites we've recently covered. There's also his home in Springfield, Illinois.
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Ft. Sumter, where the Civil War began
Mar 15th, 2009 at 12:30PM: In the year of Lincoln's 200th birthday, there's plenty to keep a person busy taking in sites around the United States that are connected to the 16th president in some way. For example, there's the Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. that has recently reopened and Lincoln's boyhood home in Indiana, two sites we've recently covered. There's also his home in Springfield, Illinois.
Here's another. ...Recession vacations: do more with less
Feb 23rd, 2009 at 4:00PM: Vacation plans are changing. This isn't exactly a surprise. With layoffs mounting and a careful eye trained on every expense, long vacations are becoming short, and short trips aren't straying as far from home. For some destinations, this is actually paying off. A handful of smaller cities are pulling in visitors that normally would set off for grander locales. Charleston, SC and Fort Meyers, FL, ...Halloween graveyard tours and a graveyard joke
Oct 24th, 2008 at 1:30PM: There are haunted prison tours and haunted hotels to sleep in. Here is another way to traipse through some haunts for Halloween.
Graveyards that can seem peaceful during the day are perfect settings at night for finding chills and thrills. If there is a graveyard in a town or city near you, I bet there's a tour. Regardless of the season, graveyards offer a span of history that includes triumph ...Elite Green Car - and other unusual word combinations
Nov 16th, 2007 at 3:01PM: Here's a Super-Duper Secret Leif Pettersen Tip to Hilarious Writing (SDSLPTHW): when you're hurting for a joke, just throw in unexpected word combinations.
Examples: "muscular fart", "righteous taco", "likeable president"
Accordingly, when I tried to write the first paragraph of this post and had to arrange the words 'luxury', 'eco-friendly', 'chauffer', 'Lexus', 'hybrid' and 'Atlanta' in an ...Haunted Tours for Halloween Fun: East Coast Edition
Oct 13th, 2007 at 10:15AM: Want to get spooked this Halloween? If your travels find you in any of these ten East Coast cities, be sure to check out the haunted tours happening on and around Halloween. Alexandria, VA: This Colonial Tour Group runs their original Ghost and Graveyard Tour, as well as a special enhanced Halloween version, several times throughout the autumn months. Atlanta, GA: How about a haunted tour on two ...Review: Charleston's Magnolias Restaurant
Mar 17th, 2007 at 4:52PM: Around this time last month I found myself in Charleston, South Carolina. It was my very first time in the city and in the state on a short visit to my father's new place a little ways outside of the area. While my dad was packed with recommendations of places to go and things to do in the city, I - still on my mission to strike out as many places as possible in the 1,000 Places to See Before You ...
