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Baltimore Dining: Cork’s Restaurant

Chef Jerry Pelligrino leads a pizza class

Baltimore’s Cork’s Restaurant located in Federal Hill, Baltimore features Maryland wines and freshly made pastas and sausage by Chef Jerry Pelligrino.

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The ghosts of Louisiana’s Myrtles Plantation

Myrtles Plantation front porch

What’s Halloween without a visit with some spooky apparitions. I went looking for some and was not disappointed.

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Annapolis uncovered: Behind colonial doors

A haunted house in Annapolis, Maryland (Photo: Jacquie Kubin)

To visit Annapolis is to visit one of our country’s oldest capital cities. A place where Colonial history is vibrantly alive.

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Restaurant review: Penne Restaurant & Bar at The Hilton Inn at Penn

Master Sommelier Marco Avigo from Penne at Hilton’s Inn at Penn (Photo: Jacquie Kubin)

For a truly enjoyable dinner, perfectly paired with a variety of fine Italian and world vine wines, visit Penne nestled on the lower floors of Hilton’s Inn at Penn.

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Galapagos: Eco-wonderland

A Santa Fe Land Iguana in the Galapagos Islands (Photograph by Heather Blumberg)

Our destination was the Galapagos Islands and our flight was to depart at 9:30 AM. I couldn’t have been more excited about getting out of dreary-cold-rainy-high altitude Quito.

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A visit to The Hilton Inn At Penn

A guest room at Hilton’s The Inn At Penn

Visiting the ‘City of Brotherly Love’ meant finding the perfect place to spend non-tourist hours, and on a recent trip, leading to the hip, smart University City and the Hilton’s The Inn At Penn.

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Universal’s Horror Make-Up Show and Halloween Horror Nights 2010

ORLANDO, FL – October 9, 2010 -  After an afternoon stop by the Universal’s Horror Make-Up Show, I waited for dusk and entered Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights XX. It’s an evening designed to cause Panic and Mayhem (two of Fear’s minions) to over take you, and the mission is fully accomplished. There were plenty [...]

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