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Travel

Nostalgia in North Carolina

On a recent jaunt to North Carolina after a thoroughly enjoyable, but unintentionally scenic tour of the countryside, my friends and I stepped back in time across the porch of Mast General Store.  I love that these nuggets of history are still around a bend on a country road in so many places here in [...]

Chicago: Strength and Grace?

Chicago

The 2009 Tour de France ended today.  I love the Tour and watch as much of it as possible every July.  It’s unlike anything else in the sporting world.  There are both team and individual tactics–often seemingly at odds, politics, the self-sacrifice of domestiques, drama and tradition.  There are weeks of grueling speed, weather, altitude [...]