Travel & Food
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A Museum Worth Singing About
The National Museum of African-American Music is more than funk and factsāit blends content and context into a powerful story. (Itās also where I made a blues video and laid down a beat. Cool, right?)
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Take Me To The River
Not long ago, I wasn’t fit enough to run, and the Manzanares wasn’t fit for anyone to run along. Boy, have things changed!
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Down in the Count in Porto
Why did I find Porto disappointing? Was there anything I enjoyed? What’s the deal with the gulls? Here are the answers to those questions, and more.
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Lisbon: Gonna Keep on Runnin’ Till I Reach My Higher Ground
Running in Lisbon requires changes in altitudes and changes in attitudes. Would anything remain quite the same?
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You Can Go Home Again. Just Wait About 425 Years First.
A little bit of my ancestry awaited me just behind the mountains. What would I discover? What would I feel? Where did I park?
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Return to Retiro
Let’s take a sunrise walk through one of the world’s greatest parksāand end up at one of the world’s finest restaurants!
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Zipping Around Madrid in My Zapatillas
The best way to experience Madrid is with running shoes on your feetāand no musical adaptions of Victor Hugo novels ringing in your ears.
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The Man With the Golden Run
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most iconic, beautiful, and orange landmarks in the world ā and I had it (mostly) all to myself on an unforgettable sunrise run.
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Bae to Bay
I’ve felt guilty running along San Francisco’s Embarcadero this week. It’s like cheating on Bayshore Boulevard.
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A Hundred Spires at Sunrise: Running Through Prague
Running through Prague is a magical experience if you wake up early. I mean really, really early. No, earlier than that.