This is part two of a four – part series, focusing on Virginia. Saving money and gas due to the rising cost of living and oil prices? Live in the Greater DC Metro area and “been there/done that” everything the travel websites and books recommend to do in the area?  Don’t want to go where the tourists slow you down and irritate you with their one-thousand camera snapshots of everything including your [...]

Saving money and gas due to the rising cost of living and oil prices? Live in the Greater DC Metro area and “been there/done that” everything the travel websites and books recommend to do in the area?  Don’t want to go where the tourists slow you down and irritate you with their one-thousand camera snapshots of everything including your shoes? If you are like my fiancée and I, you’ve said [...]

Before heading to the World Federation of the Deaf Congress in Madrid, Spain, I went to Paris, France to visit famous landmarks such as the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, and Versailles. On the third day, I decided to visit the Institution Nationale des Sourds a’ Paris, the Deaf institute where Laurent Clerc studied under the famous Abbe de l’Epee. Obviously the school wasn’t listed in the Triple-A TourGuide of Paris, [...]