Having been blessed enough to travel the globe working on movie sets or on speaking or book tours for my latest novel, One Sunday, I have gotten a tad spoiled with some exotic locations and magnificent accommodations, {not that I haven’t spent my time double-bunked at a Holiday Inn outside Martinsville, VA. while at a [...]
Medellin pronounced “Meda-jean” in Colombia, South America is a vibrant city located in a valley about 626 miles northeast of Bogotá and about an hour and a half from the Amazon. There has been an enormous educational, cultural, social, and urban transformation in Medellin. Today about 2 million tourists visit this city each year, a [...]
So often it’s only the obvious that comes to mind when we think of destination events and in the case of Mardi Gras, it’s New Orleans. New Orleans is a fantastically wild and fun place any time of the year, but not the type of Mardi Gras destination most people would consider a great low-key [...]
- By Dan Lantz – Every time my wife and I head into the city center of Philadelphia with the kids, we try to find “grown up” restaurants that are kid-friendly. On this trip, we decided to check out a place called Jones. It’s a “comfort food” restaurant with 70′s “Brady Bunch” interior. The atmosphere was [...]
- By Dan Lantz – As usual during the winter months, cabin fever gets the best of me, as well as my wife and three boys. This was just the opportunity for getting out and visiting Eastern State Penitentiary, or as the locals call it “Fairmount Prison.” Its nickname came about because it’s located right [...]
The entrance to the building is a rotunda with a massive statue of Benjamin Franklin accompanied by a multimedia presentation with lights, sounds and imagery. It’s a great way to get in the science mindset before you continue into the main atrium. This is where things get complicated. There is the Science Museum, IMAX movie theater, [...]
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