Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
"It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time." ~ David Allan Coe Hidden Oasis Hello friends! Happy April 1 (and yes April Fool's!) Spring is in the air and there is no better place to be then amongst [...]
"Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked." ~ Vicente Fox The National Mall After joyously caffeinating ourselves, Sarah and I headed to The National Mall. On maps, everything looks far apart, but it didn't seem it when [...]
"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." ~ Martin Buber King Street Once I had my much needed caffeine fix, it was time to explore. As City Lights Coffee was just off of King Street I made my way there first. The city streets were quiet, as it wasn't quite tourist season [...]
"Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone." ~ Adrienne Clarkson Saint Patrick's Given our young history, there are not many buildings that will make you awe struck when you enter them. That [...]
"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God." ~ George Washington I have to admit the first time I saw one of the arches it wasn't the one that I come to view on an almost daily bases as [...]
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust Philly Philly is a delightful smorgasbord of old and new which is shown in the stunning melding of it's architecture. Since I had explored the commercial side of Philly the day before, I could not wait to [...]
"In the reading room in the New York Public Library All sorts of souls were bent over silence reading the past, Or the present, or maybe it was the future, patrons Devoted to silence and the flowering of the imagination" ~ Richard Eberhart I have been sorely remiss when it comes to talking about my favorite [...]
"Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams." ~ Thomas Menino Growing up, living only three hours (give or take traffic) from, you would think I would be well acquainted with the city [...]
I was walking with a client about two years ago, when she paused and told me to look up. I had no idea what she was talking about. But I stopped and did what she said. As we gazed up at the tops of apartment buildings with shrubbery on the decks. The ornate cascades that [...]