Take me out to the ball game…in Washington, D.C.

What’s an American mom raising soccer-crazed boys in Italy to do? I grew up loving baseball, always thrilled when my dad took me to see the Red Sox play when I was a kid growing up in Boston. I religiously filled in my scorecard, followed the cheers, thrilled when a home run sailed high over the…

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Be an explorer at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

The Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado was a great find on a family trip we took out west. I already blogged about it in this post. We (foolishly) thought to make a quick stop here while driving from Telluride, Colorado to Bryce Canyon, Utah but we wound up spending several hours and would have liked to…

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