My friend Briand took a trip to the Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) with his wife, Erin, a few years ago and talked it up big. They really enjoyed their time there, particularly in Belgium, so I was excited to get there and see a bit of the country myself. My father and I […]
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Touring France with My Father
It’s about one year to-the-day since I was in France on holiday with my father. It is a trip of which I have such fond memories. One of them occurred within our first few days in Paris. We had just landed and were standing on the bus on the tarmac, waiting to be […]
Touring Denver’s Newest Art Museum
I wasn’t sure of what to expect, as I walked through the doors of the Clyfford Still Museum. After much fanfare, news coverage, and general hoopla, I was about to walk through the doors of Denver’s newest museum on its opening weekend. I had been planning this visit for nearly a year – ever since […]
An Halloween Ghost Hunt at the Museum of Colorado Prisons
“When things aren’t happening, it really makes you appreciate that much more the times when something does occur,” I stated to our six-person group. And then, as if on cue, a motion sensor-activated light popped to life. We were sprawled on the floor in a hallway lined with cells on the upper floor of the […]
Bidding Adieu to King Tut
“Can you see anything?” asked the fifth Earl of Carnarvon. “Yes, wonderful things!” his companion exclaimed. In November, 1922, Egyptian King Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered in the Valley of the Kings. The find is credited to Howard Carter, a London-born archaeologist, but a local worker is actually the person who accidentally uncovered the first step […]
A Ramble Through the Museum of Contemporary Art
I can’t remember where, but I recently read about a proposed project by Christo and Jeanne-Claude – the couple who did The Gates exhibit in Central Park – to drape nearly six miles of the Arkansas River in Colorado in a silvery fabric. A lot of people are upset by the proposal and the possible […]
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