Tag: Baseball
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#61: Milwaukee
The area known as Milwaukee in present day Wisconsin was first inhabited by Native Americans – primarily the Algonquian peoples – prior to the arrival of French explorers in the 17th century. The city became incorporated in 1846 and quickly became a destination for immigrants seeking to escape the German revolutions of 1848-1849. Interestingly enough,…
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#42: Paris 2024 Olympics Team USA Recap
This blog is a follow up to #41: The 2024 Olympic Games. It was hardly a surprise that Team USA earned more medals than any other committee (country) in France this year. The same was true for past Games in Tokyo, Rio, and London. But for Paris 2024, it wasn’t the number of medals earned…
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#35: Emerald City
Those who frequently travel are aware of the way vacations and business trips tend to become social experiments rather than sightseeing expeditions. Sure, we all want to visit the world’s largest ball of twine or try to make the King’s Guard smile, but the purest form of adventure is comprised of what occurs in transit…