Summertime in Maine

Sans plan, a few friends, and us, mapped out our 4th July-long weekend along the undulating east coast, from CT to the state of Maine. First, we were greeted by Portland, where, the occasional warmth from the sun, howling winds, the swirl of the sea and the incessant drizzle from the tropical storm, Arthur, snuggled us into a local pub, Rí Rá. Best...

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A Date with the Incas of Peru

May 2014, our first wedding anniversary, deserved a special destination. From JFK to PFN to LIM to CUZ. Post landing in Cusco, a town in the midst of the Andean range, nearly 3600m above sea-level, we were taken to a boutique hotel, Los Marqueses: charming, colonial, quaint and, as we came to understand, our home for the week. Coca tea, the...

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Making History in Washington DC

By the end of what was a painfully long New England winter, we found ourselves on a windows-unrolled-feet-up road journey towards the Capital. The overcast skies had nothing to do with our weekend plans. We drove from CT to NY to NJ to DE to MD to DC, got a sweeping glance of the panoramic city by night, before settling into a warm, king bed. Following...

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