In business travel, business always comes before travel in regards to my priorities on the road. In other words, I have to take care of things in the office before I can enjoy the sites of whatever city I may be in.
At times, this has posed significant challenges and limitations to what I can see and do on a given trip. Many attractions keep limited hours, and it’s not uncommon for most museums, cultural institutions, and historic sites to shut their doors right at 5:00. Unfortunately, I generally have to maintain a presence in the office for an hour or two after most of these sites close their...
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As I drove around the streets of Hampton Roads, I kept seeing one pervasive bumper sticker. It seemed as though wherever I was, at least one car on the street would have this sticker clinging to their bumper or their back windshield. It had different manifestations – as black sticker, an orange sticker, a white sticker – but the text was all the same. “Doumar’s – Part of What Makes Norfolk Great.”
The sticker itself did not give me any inkling into what Doumar’s was. But as I was sitting in the office and hunger gnawed away at me, I decided to do some research. A quick Google search...
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Every city seems to have a park that stands above the rest for one reason or another. The classic example is Central Park in New York City, but other famous A-List parks include Hyde Park in London, Balboa Park in San Diego, Lincoln Park in Chicago, etc. It's the park where city dwellers flock on the first warm day of spring, where barbecues and volleyball games are held, and frisbees and footballs are seen flying through the air.
In Virginia Beach, that park is the one and only Mount Trashmore - a great park with an even better name .
In a previous life, Mount Trashmore was a landfill,...
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