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December 15, 2017
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Back to the Northern Neck

Location: Northern Neck, Virginia, USA 

Published: Virginia Living Magazine 

The marshy smell of the little canal running alongside the dock where fiddler crabs scurried in the mud. The eep-eep-eep warning cries of a mother osprey on high alert. The scratching of blue crabs piled atop blue crabs as they rustled about in bushel baskets.

These are the memories of the Virginia where I vacationed as I child, in the southern reaches of the Northern Neck. I am reminded of them every time I return from my home in Florida to visit my parents in the small town of White…

June 6, 2015
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Salt Life Scandinavia

Location: Norway, Stavanger, Lysefjord

Pubished: Virginia Living

The first thing to know when setting sail with the descendants of Vikings is that they are not fair-weather sailors. For Norwegians, boat drinks and bikinis are mostly the stuff of vacations in the Canary Islands or Thailand. While Norway has more than 15,000 miles of coastline, the homegrown version of the salt life is far more hardcore. Has darkness already descended? No worries, Vikings will happily sail out from port at midnight in mid-winter. A bit chilly outside? “There’s no bad weather, just bad clothing,” Norwegians will quip with a somewhat sadistic…

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