The DC Traveler

Here’s three new Travel and Culture blogs, covering Las Vegas, London and Switzerland.
While the line goes, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”, Heather at The Las Vegas Adventurer will not be secretive about all the fun and exciting things available to travelers to Viva Las Vegas. Hey, was that Elvis I just saw?
  
Jed at The London Traveler writes about one of my favorite destinations, London.  It’s got such a rich history and so many things to do. Cheers Jed!
  
At The Switzerland Traveler, Geoff will keep us up to date on all that’s going on in one of the …read more

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Over 38 million people worldwide live with HIV/AIDS, including an estimated 25,000 adults in DC.  

Here’s a chance to support a great DC cause, the non-profit Whitman-Walker Clinic, a DC-based health organization that provides health care to those infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS.
The event includes a fundraising 5K walk and run, pre-event speeches, and the announcement of winners of the poster and essay contest for students.  
Aids Walk Washington - 2007Freedom Plaza (start and finish)1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20004 (map it)
Date and Time - Oct. 6th, 9:00 a.m - speakers and music, run starts at 9:30 a.m. and the walk at 9:45 a.m.
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This is a GNO (Girl’s Night Out) with a great theme. Sampling some of the best wines created by leading women in the winemaking industry, combined with some amazing food and of course, great company.
According a study on women winemakers in California, an estimated 15% to 20% of California’s wine-makers are women. And while it may currently be a a male-dominated industry, there’s no surprise that evidence indicates women’s senses of taste and smell are more acute, resulting in a high demand for winemakers with these heightened senses.
This fun and flavor-packed evening occurs at one of Washingtonian magazine’s consistent Top 100 Best Restaurants, Café …read more

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Join consumer advocate (and possible Presidential candidate) Ralph Nader and 125 other visionary (as well as a couple possibly fringe) environmental speakers, plus 350 green businesses and exhibitors at this year’s Green Festival at the D.C. Convention Center.
With a jam-packed agenda of 50 programs using four simultaneous stages, attend lectures, panel discussions, how-to workshops and green films on a variety of topics. Lectures, programs and workshops include:

Building the green economy
Green activism
Energy - solar and alternative energy and fuels, nuclear power
Globalism
Recycling
Climate change
Conscience consumerism
Fair Trade

There’s also a food drive benefiting the Capital Area Food Bank.
Green Festival ‘07
Washington D.C. Convention Center
801 Mount Vernon Place, NW
Washington, DC 20001 (map it)
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On two consecutive weekends, Annapolis will host a couple of the world’s largest in-water and on-shore boat shows, the U.S. Sailboat Show and the U.S. Powerboat Show.
Climb aboard everything that floats from one-man sailboats to luxurious motoryachts.  

U.S. Sailboat Show / U.S. Powerboat ShowRandall Street - Annapolis City Dock Annapolis, MD (map it)
Dates and Times

Sailboat Show - Thursday - Sunday, Oct. 5-8 - daily 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Thursday and Sunday until 6:00)
Powerboat Show - Thursday - Sunday, Oct. 11-14 - daily 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Thursday and Sunday until 6:00)

Tickets - $30.00 for VIP Pass …read more

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Suburban Bethesda, MD, especially around the Woodmont Triangle boasts some great restaurants, including Black’s, Grape Seed, Centro, Persimmon, and David Craig Bethesda, plus a favorite of mine, Mon Ami Gabi, not because the food is fantastic, but their melt-in-your-mouth Steak Bordelaise with mounds of caramelized onions in a red wine sauce is pretty yummy, but because it reminds me of several places I used to hang out with in Chicago with good friends.
At the Taste of Bethesda, you can sample food from the menus of 50 Bethesda restaurants and enjoy five stages of live music from 11:00 until 3:00 p.m. Sadly, none …read more

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No, this isn’t The San Francisco Traveler.  I simply couldn’t help posting a few photos from my recent trip to San Francisco and the North Bay.
I hope you enjoy.
 
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The 7th annual National Book Festival welcomes readers to the Mall to meet some of America’s most-loved authors and discover new books.

This year, about 70 well-known authors, illustrators and poets will talk about their books and offer autographs in the following outdoor pavilions:

Children
Teens & Children
Fiction & Fantasy
Mysteries & Thrillers
History & Biography
Home & Family
Poetry

Some of the noted authors (click here for the full list) include Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Kennedy; Ken Burns; M.T. Anderson, the winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature; Joyce Carol Oates and more.
This year’s U.S. Poet Laureate will also be named near …read more

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One of the nation’s greatest American presidents was Abraham Lincoln.  He is remembered mostly for preserving the Union during the Civil War, for ending slavery and for paying the ultimate price, at just the exact moment in time when the war was ending and the Nation’s healing process was beginning.

At his his Inaugural Address he stated to the South, ”You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.”  His deep commitment to save the Union, kept the country united but cost him his life.
The road to the White …read more

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It seems that I’ve met more and more people from the former Soviet Union in the past couple years, and that it encouraged me to do a bit of research.  Just over 3% of the population of the DC metro area consists of people from the former Soviet Union, which make DC the 7th largest area in the U.S. for former Russian nationals to live.

The family-oriented Fall Russian-Slavic Cultural Festival in suburban McLean, Virginia brings together the culture, heritage, music and food from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Enjoy musical performances, including DC’s own Balalaika Russian Orchestra, costumed dancers, singers along …read more

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